A Lent With St John a Thought for Every Day in Lent From the Firtst Epistle of
A Lent With St John a Thought for Every Day in Lent From the Firtst Epistle of
Harry Ransome
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As thoy engage in warfare agaiii. St the world of Satan. Lias he not en- countered thein himself '. The love of Jesus is in his heart as he writes; it overflows upon those struggling ones — they are his little children. St. John strikes a compassionate note. Sometimes one confounds compassion with sympathy ; but they are not synonymous. To illustrate: a child loses its parents. Sympathy conies along and says, ''You poor child; it is terrible and I know it! What can I do for you ?" and the child... weej^s more bilterly ; Init when compassion meets the little one, it whispers tenderly to the sobbing child, "Fear not, little one, nor be dismayed, for the everlasting arms of love encircle you, there shall no evil befall you" ; and the child's tears cease. Compassion is l)orn of divine love, and ripens through experience into far-seeing wisdom. So you find it often men- tioned in Holy Scripture, that our Lord had com- passion on the multitude, not sympathy. St. John, th( Ti, speaks with compassion born of experience in the warfare, and bids his little children persevere to the end, so that, ''if Tie shall be manifested, we may have boldness.
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