This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 Excerpt: ...is none here." 1 Janet's mother had sometimes said that troubles were sent to make us better and draw us nearer to God; but what mockery this has seemed to Janet, whose troubles have been sinking her from year to year, pressing upon her like heavy, fever-laden vapours, and perverting the very plenitude of her nature ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 Excerpt: ...is none here." 1 Janet's mother had sometimes said that troubles were sent to make us better and draw us nearer to God; but what mockery this has seemed to Janet, whose troubles have been sinking her from year to year, pressing upon her like heavy, fever-laden vapours, and perverting the very plenitude of her nature into a deeper source of disease! "Oh, if some ray of hope, of pity, of consolation, would pierce through the horrible gloom, she might believe then in a Divine love--in a heavenly Father who cared for His children!" The day dawns at last when Janet Dempster can refer to the dark and dreary past when she was only angry and discontented 2 because she had pain to bear; and can eagerly 1 The answer to this is a true mother's answer, a true woman's. "Janet, my child, there is pity. Have I ever done anything but love you? And there is pity in God. Hasn't He put pity in your heart for many a poor sufferer? Where did it come from if not from Him?"--Janet's Repentance, chap. xiv. 2 There is a rich banker's daughter in another well known fiction, also of woman's workmanship, of whom we read that, in the sovereign vitality ask another, her spiritual guide, whether he had ever known the wicked feeling she had had so often, that God was cruel to send her trials and temptations worse than others have. The reader of The Gayworthys may remember the clergyman's interview, in Selport jail, with Blackmere the sailor, who, warned against hardness of heart, and reminded that he may shortly be sent to meet his God, shocks his spiritual adviser by answering, as he takes the pipe out of his mouth, "I 'd like to see that Person. I 'd have a word or two to say to Him if I once found Him." The words were blasphemous perhaps, and God's mi...
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