{"product_id":"2940011890284","title":"Words Of Hope and Comfort to Those In Sorrow","description":"An excerpt from the:  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA FEW years ago some of these letters were printed for private distribution amongst those who needed the consolation they were calculated to give. They have been largely blessed in comforting stricken hearts; and many in great sorrow have acknowledged with thankfulness that they had come as a message from God, to bind up the broken-hearted and to lead the sufferer to the Source of all Consolation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe difficulty of obtaining copies from private hands has hitherto narrowed the range of the influence for good thus exercised, and the Editor has been repeatedly urged to publish the book, in order that it might have a wider circulation. A gracious request to this effect was sent by One whose every wish would be esteemed an honoured command, but bound as she was, by a promise to those to whom the letters were addressed, the Editor was unable to carry out Her Majesty's most gracious desire. From that promise she has at length been released, and she rejoices in being permitted to send forth the Book, dedicated to Her whose deep sorrows were ever present to the widowed heart of the writer, by whom unceasing prayers were offered for the Royal Sufferer and for Her bereaved family. The writer was one who was herself early taught in the school of affliction. The loss of a most beloved sister, when she was not twelve years of age, led her to turn to the only true comfort; and each succeeding year testified to the growth of her spiritual life. Whilst endowed with no ordinary powers of mind, and eager for the highest intellectual cultivation, all her talents were consecrated to the service of her Lord and Master. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLike Him, it was her greatest joy to minister to others. From earliest childhood she had been remarkable for unselfishness, as well as for entire devotion to those she loved; and as she grew up, her self-sacrifice knew no bounds, and her intense sympathy made her always ready to share either in the joys or sorrows of her friends. It was said of her that so deep was her sympathy that she actually partook of the sorrows of her friends and made them her own. Thus she was enabled to understand exactly the kind of comfort that they needed. She also possessed so remarkable a judgment that she was sometimes asked if she had made the Collect for a ' right judgment in all things' her one prayer, as her advice always proved just what was wanted; and the perfect tact with which she gave it, added greatly to its value.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMany heavy trials were appointed to her: the loss of those nearest and dearest to her loving heart; the loss of property, by which she was debarred from indulging in her greatest delight, that of assisting the needy and furthering her Master's cause; and the disappointment of many fond hopes. These were the means by which she was led to closer union with her Lord. Great as were her sorrows, she found Him an ever-present help in trouble, and she drank deeper and deeper at the Fountain of His love. The fellowship of His sufferings was granted to her, and she bore witness to the High Companionship vouchsafed to her; by conformity to His image and child-like submission to His will, which made her say and feel under all the circumstances of her life—' Not my will, but Thine, O God, be done.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter thus glorifying her God and Saviour by her life and conversation, she was called to glorify Him in acute and protracted suffering, by patience, which never failed, and by faith and hope, which grew brighter and brighter to the end.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThose who knew her sweet life, and were blessed by her holy example, will feel how meagre is this faint sketch of one whom to know was as surely to love. Many there are who now bless God for her friendship, and who attribute to her teaching the impulse given them to run their Christian course with zeal and perseverance; whilst others, who were in deep tribulation, speak of the help and comfort she was able to bring them, both from her own abounding sympathy and from her power of leading them to the God of all consolation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese friends have been very anxious that a full Memoir of her eventful and most useful life should be published, as an encouragement to others to follow her bright example, and as a record of the means by which she was enabled to accomplish so much and to exert so large an influence for good. But though there are ample materials for such a Memoir, the Editor cannot forget that she would be unfaithful to her sister's well-known wishes if she was thus to lay bare domestic privacy, or to unveil the hidden life of one whose conversation was truly in heaven.","brand":"Leila's Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47073399505136,"sku":"2940011890284","price":1.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940011890284_p0.jpg?v=1763550819","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940011890284","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}