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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Apr 18, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 16

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LIFE-GIVING SURGERY.

“Why does God, if He is love, permit this continued suffering of mine?” is the cry of many a sorely tried child of God. “Have I not suffered enough? He could work a miracle and heal me at this moment; why does He not do so?” Yet we would not beg the surgeon, while his skilled hand and life-bringing knife are in the midst of an operation that means release from pain and death, to cease his work, and to stop torturing the sensitive, shrinking nerves and body. He could stop, of course, just where he is; and that would be the most unloving thing he could do. To bring the full blessing of restored and extended life, he must complete his work. May we not trust the loving heavenly Father as fully as we trust our surgeons?—Sunday-School Times.