Show sufferings Suf A stimulus whatever affords a strong mo 1 ti tivo to a healthful development of the faculties to a knowledge of the laws lalys of nature to a clearer view of our relations with each other to pure and sweet emotions to earnest pr practical activity may be regard ed as a driendl friendly y force even oven when paid for by pain there ar are e many such forces at work and prominent among them stands suffering fiering suf take it for example as a stimulus to careful living the child burns his finger in the flame and the pain I 1 coming long before an any serious serious injury ini ury is inflicted is tho t JO most effective of teachers henceforth the child knows that fire hurts burts and carefully avoids what might prove his destruction wa were re no suffering involved so all pain ain of body is a merciful signal sinal 11 of danger ahead warning us to turn the ot other er way how much health do somo some men owe to the achaa of head bead and stomach that follow dissipation axom excess and irregular habits I 1 how instinctively they shun what they know has hurt them thereby shun ning causes of disease and deat death unhappily this is not so with all for here as in other matters there are foolish men who will ill not heed the teaching ot experience when we turn torn to the more subtle and deeper suffering of the mind and the heart the same principle holds good here too ono one mission of suffering is to stimulate us to know more and to do better A man has hall been idle and made mad no effort or h hia efforts have been unwise unwisely 17 mado ado and have failed and he ho now suffers in losing hia his money or position self approval or the esteem of oth ereis not tifis pain the very ulous he be needs to ha habits its of industry or economy or to exercise better judgment and and forethought another is 8 thoughtless and careless and a serious accident is the result paining him to the quick and im preising preg sing him 43 is nothing elee else would me done with tho caution he has neglected yet another has lost his reputation through deceit he would give worlds to undo that ho lie baa has done but this can iaeger be yet the anguish with which he looks back upon tho past is the benedis cent influence which prompts him to 6 better things in the future it is true that all buffering suffering is not so readily i y traced trace to OP one 6 fault gulls or errors uch of it comes from the imperfections factions of others are there no lessons io lu these thes e have they no power to stimulate u us to purer feel eel ings and nobler conduct the world i is full of vicarious dufferin suf suffering ferin I 1 the innocent suffering dufferin suf ferin g in a thousand n gd waye ways for the guilty showing us that no man can live to himself all ignorance and all ill doing rewound redound to the injury ot 0 tip 4 entire community con therefore each one b is bully pud au personally interest Inter pd ea ili in the character and welfare of every other one if however there are sorrows that cannot be traced to mistakes or wrongdoing wrong doing either in ourselves or others they Y yet t contain a power tc eti ski mulat e patience tie 1 1 and br tUnde in those who bear car af them 0 m sympathy and helpful helt helpful ful ness lien in in those who them t em who has not seen with admiration an ail afflicted one bearing heavy troubles with a courage and cheers falness that put to ta cliame the weak fretful and complaining co m pla ining spirit that murmurs over each trifling annoyance who has not felahis felt hia heart melt in tenderness and compassion at the trials of one sorely pressed sed and experienced ex an earnest longing to give relief as far aa as maybe be possible who has not known the hush of all weaker and meaner feelings when a real afflic tion spreads a solemn pall over a hou household sebold gentleness tenderness pity charity love mercy forbearance are aro all 01 horn of suffering and thus the ills ua of life may way become tay a fruitful of moral ole elevation philadelphia ledger |