If we find others in sorrow

If we find others in sorrow , it is our duty not to tell them merely how sorry we are for them, how we pity them — but, coming close to them in love, to whisper in their ears the strong comforts of Divine grace, to make them stronger to endure their sorrow.

If we find others in the midst of difficulties and sore struggles, faint and ready almost to yield, it is our duty not merely to bemoan the severity and hardness of their battles with them, and then to leave them to go on to sure defeat — but to stimulate and inspire them to bravery and victoriousness.

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