The physical uses of pain as growing out of disease are directly connected with moral uses. The man whom disease prostrates and loads with discomfort is taught many a sage and sober lesson by the very discomfort he feels. He is awakened to a lively sense of his own frailty and often to very serious reflection. The visitation of pain in the sick-room is a powerful teacher. It brings into the field of vision many important thoughts which we are not liable to forget in the days of health and strength. It lowers the tone of one’s spirit and disposes him to think, as he usually does not in the rush of business and the eager strife of life. He is taught, too, by the experience of pain, the beautiful lesson of sympathy with others in like conditions. He knows what the thing is, knows how welcome sympathy and service are to him, and, hence, learns how to extend these expressions to others. Disconnect all disease from suffering, and not one of these moral uses could be realized. It is by suffering that disease acts as a moral teacher. Were it wholly absent, there would be a derangement alike in the physical and moral order of things. The disciplinary function of suffering is by no means limited to disease and the course of the sick-room. Its field is as broad as human life. It is the doctrine of the Bible and also of experience that God in the course of his providence uses suffering on a large and varied scale, not by way of punishment, but by way of discipline, securing a high moral benefit through the medium of a severe physical evil. Hence, we often see the very best of people sorely afflicted, bearing the sharpest trials; while we see others grossly wicked without any such experience. This discrimination plainly has no moral basis in the difference of their characters. Were moral character the rule, the fact would of necessity be different. What is the rule under which the good suffer? What is the suffering to them in the divine intention? Plainly it is not always punishment. It is often, if not always, discipline. Its object is to refine and exalt their virtues and make them meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light.—New York Independent.