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THOUGHTS

DURING

SICKNESS.

'

BY THE AUTHOR OF 'THE DOCTRINE OF THE CROSS," AND
"DEVOTIONS FOR THE SICK-ROOM."

SECOND EDITION.

Orford,

AND 377, STRAND, LONDON:

JOHN HENRY AND JAMES PARKER.

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16

BODE

TO THE

SICK AND AFFLICTED,

AND

TO THOSE DEAR FRIENDS

WHOSE KINDNESS AND SYMPATHY SMOOTHED THE BED OF SICKNESS,

THESE PAGES ARE DEDICATED

*WITH

THE CHRISTIAN AFFECTION

AND

GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE

OF

THE AUTHOR.

R. B.

By the Author.

Price 1s., New Edition,

THE DOCTRINE OF THE CROSS

illustrated in a Memorial of a humble Follower of Christ.

MOZLEY, Paternoster-row, London.

PREFATORY REMARKS.

It would be an inestimable blessing to most of us, to turn from the excitement and unreality in which we are content to live, and learn how men feel in sickness and death, when the realities of time and eternity are unfolded to them. The commonplace experience of ordinary Christians may not be without its use, if it teaches us this. On this ground alone can the writer justify the publication of the thoughts which exercised his own mind during a long and trying illness. As a simple record of God's loving-kindness they may, he hopes, afford some consolation to those in like condition, and awaken the thoughtless to remember "the hour of death, and the day of judgment."

Large quotations from the Holy Scriptures have been introduced with the two-fold object of drawing the sick to the closer study of the fountain of eternal truth, and confirming my own. feeble statements.

The blessings and trials of sickness are both very great, but they can only be realized by those who have passed through the fiery ordeal. And even among these it is the thoughtful, earnest Christian only who will discern and receive the blessing, and so profit by its trials as to be better

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