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Show NO ONE NEED FEEL ashamed because worry, frustration or trouble of one kind or another causes him to go to a fellow human being for comfort. The yearning for consolation is part of that larger larg-er desire for love which Is an Instinct In-stinct of every human heart. Even Christ, the Perfect Man, felt the need for consolation. In the Garden of Gethsemane, Christ was weighed down by the fate that awaited Him and the knowledge that many would reject His sacrifice. sacri-fice. The Son of Man longed for just one sympathetic word. But His disciples slept, wrapped in their own dreams of uneasiness and fear. Only the olive trees, like spectres In the cold moonlight, looked on as the Savior entered into His agony. Christ was abandoned by men in His hour of need; but not by His Heavenly Father. In Gethsemane, Christ the Lonely taught men a great lesson: that when the need for consolation is greatest they must turn for It, not to men, but to GodsfWith the sweat of blood oozing from His pores, Christ turned His eyes upward. Sorrowful Sorrow-ful unto death. He read and was comforted by the pity and love in the eyes of His Father. And at length He rose and went calmly to the ordeal before Him. It Is In God always that men find their perfect consolation. No one may expect to be spared pain or suffering; for some, life will always al-ways be hard and bitter. God, for His own inscrutable purpose, permits per-mits even the noblest of His creatures crea-tures to suffer. But He never leaves them to suffer alone. Unlike Un-like the sleeping friends of Christ, He stands by their side to sustain and strengthen them In the hour of testing. |