The Ministry of Comfort

Section 1
Glimpses of Immortality
Why Trouble Comes
God disciplines us for our good
Love in Taking Away
Trouble as a Trust
Some Blessings of Sorrow
Comfort in God's Will

Section 2 The Ministry of Comfort
Jesus as a Comforter
God Himself the Best Comfort
The Duty of Forgetting Sorrow
Effectual Prayer
The Effacement of Self
One Day
The Culture of the Spirit

Section 3
The Secret of Serving
The Habit of Happiness
Thinking Soberly
Stumbling at the Disagreeable
The Duty of Thanksgiving
Manners
Things Which Discourage Kindness
Putting Away Childish Things.

A theological professor used to say to his students, "Never fail in any service, to have at least a word of comfort. No congregation, however small, ever assembles, but there is in it a person in sorrow, who will go away unhelped, if in scripture lesson, hymn or prayer, there is nothing to lift up a heavy heart."
No book for devotional reading would be complete, however full of other lessons, if it contained nothing for those who are in sorrow. In this little volume special prominence is given to the ministry of comfort, in the hope that the book may make some hearts braver and stronger in the hard and painful ways of life. It is affectionately dedicated to those who are called to pass through trial.

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