Consolation, in Discourses On Select Topics Addressed to the Suffering ...
Consolation, in Discourses On Select Topics Addressed to the Suffering ...
Alexander, James W. (James Waddel), 1804-1859
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There, there is the heart which made every human ill its own. Go to the followers of Christ: " "Who is weak, and I am not weak ? who is offended and I burn not ?" Go to those whose maxim is, " Rejoice with them that do re- joice, and weep with them that weep." It is the spirit of Messiah. He came to exemplify and com- municate it. While on his triumphal progress to judgment and victory, he beholds the downtrodden object in his way, stays his victorious wheels, de- scends from his car, takes the... bruised reed, and cherishes and erects it into health and vigor. And where self-important man would extinguish the failing light, he approaches the flax which scarcely smokes, and breathes new life into the flame. If the gospel were not a message to sufferers — to great sufferers, to sufferers the most, solitary, 314 CONSOLATION. neglected and abject — it would not be a message, my brethren, for us. If religion could not display- its glories where there are great trials — among the aged, poor, infirm, sick, desponding, and disheart- ened, we might erase from the catalogue the larger part of Christ's friends.
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