Comfort in Affliction by MRS. C. C. LEWIS

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 4, 1915

Comfort in Affliction

By MRS. C. C. LEWIS

MRS. C. C. LEWIS

I WAS made sad by receiving your letter and learning of your affliction. This is indeed a dark picture, and I do not wonder that you are cast down; but you must not give up. God will not forsake you, for he has said, “Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.” The outlook is indeed dark, but some one has said that it is darkest just before dawn. Do not give up your hold on the Lord. I feel sure he will raise up friends for you. You must be brave. This condition of things will not last always. You are young, and under good treatment your husband will be likely soon to rally. One thing is certain: you must keep up as brave a heart as possible. Many a woman has been left empty-handed with her little children. She wanted to die, perhaps, and take them with her, but she could not. She just had to live on and keep brave, and do the best she could. That is what you must do. It must have been a disappointment to receive so little sympathy from those who should have stood by you, but you are the Lord's child, and he will not forsake his own.

You are better off than many others. Not long ago a company of boys went a mile and a half to cut wood for a poor woman. Her husband was so cruel and worthless that she left him. She lived in a poor old shack of a house, and had three children, the oldest about six. All she had to eat was what the neighbors carried in. She is not one of our people, but she is one of the suffering

human family. Of course there are a few of the many other cases of this kind, but I happened to know about this one; and I think her case is still more sad than yours. You have a loving husband, who will probably soon regain his health, and then it will be a delight to him to provide for you and the babies.

So, my dear sister, bear up. God provides for the sparrows, and “ye are of more value than many sparrows.” I want you to read Psalm 104, and note especially verses 14-16, also verse 27. Do you not see that the Father provides food and shelter for these lower creatures? I hope as you read these precious words that courage will spring up in your heart. “The Lord will provide. It may not be my way; it may not be thy way; and yet in his own way, the Lord will provide.”