The Bow in the Cloud: Or Words of Comfort for Those in Bereavement, Sickness, Sorrow, and the Varied Trials of Life

Amid the manifold afflictions of life, the great solace is, and ever must be, the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ; and the extracts which you have gathered together from so many quarters, serve to show how its principles and promises have been brought to bear by different writers, upon their own trials. The book is pre-eminently a collection of individual testimonies to the efficacy of the consolation furnished by the Word of God to those who are in trouble. The writers have tried and proved it for themselves, and can therefore confidently commend it to others. Indeed the very rehearsal of their own experience is itself a comfort to those who are similarly afflicted, and so the book will be an appropriate gift to all who are in any trial. While at the same time it will be helpful to the Christian pastor in his visits to the house of mourning as suggesting to him words in season to those who are weary. By its publication you will become a true Barnabas, or son of consolation to many, and I trust it will have, as it deserves, a wide circulation.