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In sickness
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“One trouble sometimes makes us forget a thousand mercies.” (Select Sentences.[1] This passage is given at the bottom of page 80 in The Young Christian’s Pocket-book: Or, Counsels, Comforts, & Cautions, Conveyed in Short Striking Sentences (Religious Tract Society, London: 1849). This section was re-published in 1899 by the American Baptist Publication Society in The Christian’s Pocket-book, p. 59. )
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Lord,
Thou hast called me again unto life, and yet I fear the coming hours of pain. O, help me to suffer with patience, and to feel that thousands besides me share my ills and many are worse afflicted. |
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Whatever Thou sendest
is for some wise purpose which we finite creatures dare not understand until that final day when Thou callest us home to Thee. |
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How happy all Thy universe seems,
and alas, I may not share its joys! Yet perhaps wilt Thou in Thine infinite goodness send me relief, then can I, too, join the choir of workers in their song of praise. When that time approaches, make me more mindful of Thy blessing of health which once was mine, more charitable and helpful unto all suffering humanity. |
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Meanwhile,
I shall try to retain a cheerful countenance, and be patient to those who must attend to my needs. |
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The Lord will be nigh unto me,
for I will call upon Him in truth. Amen. |
“In Sickness” was written by Annie Josephine Levi and published in her anthology of teḥinot in English, Meditations of the Heart (1900), page 147.
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| 1 | This passage is given at the bottom of page 80 in The Young Christian’s Pocket-book: Or, Counsels, Comforts, & Cautions, Conveyed in Short Striking Sentences (Religious Tract Society, London: 1849). This section was re-published in 1899 by the American Baptist Publication Society in The Christian’s Pocket-book, p. 59. |
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