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Chapter 45—Comfort in Affliction
Dear Sister T,
I have learned of your affliction, and hasten to pen a few lines.
My dear sister, I have the very best of evidence that the Lord loves
you. In the last view given me, I was shown your case among others.
I saw that you had been affected in the past with the course of error
which others had pursued; but while strictly conscientious, and ever
anxious to know the right, you were extremely sensitive and viewed
your case as worse than it was.
You have been afflicted with disease for quite a length of time.
You are a nervous dyspeptic. The brain is closely connected with the
stomach, and its power has so often been called to aid the weakened
digestive organs that it is in its turn weakened, depressed, congested.
While in this state, your mind is gloomy, naturally dwelling upon the
dark side, imagining that the frown of God is upon you. You have
thought that your life has been useless, that it has been filled with
errors and wrong moves. Dear sister, your diseased state of health
leads you to this despondency and discouragement. God has not left
you; His love is yet toward you. I saw that you should trust in Him
as a child trusts itself in the arms of its mother. God is merciful and
kind, and full of tender pity and compassion. He has not turned His
face from you.
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You are extremely sensitive. You feel deeply and have not pos-
sessed the power to throw off care, perplexity, and discouragement
of mind. I saw that God would be to you a very present help if you
would only trust yourself with Him; but you worry yourself out of
the arms of your dear, loving Saviour. “He that spared not His own
Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him
also freely give us all things?” What a precious promise is this! We
may claim much of our kind heavenly Father. Great blessings are in
reserve for us. We may believe in God, we may trust Him, and by
so doing glorify His name. Even if we are overcome of the enemy,
we are not cast off, not forsaken and rejected of God. No; Christ is
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