Selah: Visiting the Sick

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		Chapter 8 Visiting the Sick
		THE visit of a true sister will turn to good account in those mutual visitations and rejoicings in the truth, which are natural among those of like precious faith. Such interchange of hope in the things promised, and shortly to be realized, will greatly quicken faith and courage in both visited and visitor. Specially will this be the case in visiting the sick and afflicted. The sister who knows experimentally the sweetness of the promises, both as regards His paternal care of us in this life, and of what He has in store for us in the future, can from the treasury of the Spirit created within her by the Word, follow the apostolic example of ministering the same comfort wherewith she herself is comforted of God. Where material help is needed, she will be ready, and if not sufficient of herself for the occasion, she will seek the co-operation of others likeminded, and be able to relieve the immediate wants of the afflicted. The poor among us we shall always have. Our Lord has told us so, perhaps to test our loyalty to him who deigns to acknowledge, that in every poor brother who is rich in faith, there is a representative of himself. -- Sis. A. Hopkins We must not keep our alabaster boxes of love and sympathy sealed up until our dear ones are gone, but fill their lives with sweetness. Cheering and helping them by our words and actions. The things we mean to do and say, let us do them now. Let us brighten their homes with the sweet flowers we might place upon their graves. Many an alabaster box full of the fragrant perfume of affection and tenderness has never been broken till the one we intended to anoint has passed beyond recalling, without having tasted the sweetness of human sympathy, or their wearied senses being refreshed by the fragrant flowers of kindness. Selah Contents Also available in chapter format (one chapter --- on one web page)
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Chapter 8

Visiting the Sick