Sympathy, Or the Mourner Advised and Consoled (Classic Reprint)

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This amiable feeling, - which is the going forth of the affections of the heart towards the unhappy, Christianity cherishes. Considering us as parts Of the universal family, and linked in the bond Of common brotherhood, it commands, as we have Opportunity, that we do good to all men. Their sufferings may have been the effect of their own imprudence, or even of their vices; and yet, they are not, on these accounts, to be excluded from the benefits Of a wise and discriminating commiseration. We are to imitate our Father in heaven, who maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. Love will not suffer the man who is the subject Of it to enjoy contentedly the good things which he pos sesses, so long as any of his neighbours are in circumstances Of distress. He chooses rather to diminish his own comforts to relieve the necessities Of others: or if the trial is beyond his power to relieve, he shares it by sympathy. If I had nothing else to bestow upon the miserable, said one Of the Fathers, it would delight me to shed a tear or two on their sufferings.

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