Sorrow | AdventAI

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jun 29, 1876

Sorrow.

One truth concerning sorrow is simple and clear enough for a child's comprehension, that grief is the most nobly borne which is allowed to weigh the least heavily upon others. Not every one, however, is unselfish enough to perceive this. Many feel a certain pride in putting on, and long retaining their sackcloth and ashes. They conceive that when they have sustained a heavy affliction, that there is a sort of disgrace in not displaying their grief. They cannot see that any real wound in a deep, loving heart is removed. We may bury our dead out of our sight, or out of our neighbor's sight, which is of more importance; we may cease to miss them from the routine of our daily existence, and learn to name people, things, and places, as calmly as if no pulse had ever throbbed at the merest allusion to them, but they are not forgotten. They have merely passed from the outer to the inner fold of our double life—which lies nearest our hearts.