THE SICK MAN'S

COMFORT BOOK.

BY THE

REV. P. B. POWER, M.A.,

Author of "The 'I Wills' of the Psalms," etc.

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Introduction.

MONGST the many wonderful truths which are spoken of God in the Bible, one of the most wonderful and beautiful is that He is a God of comfort."

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"Comfort" is such a soothing word in itself, that, the moment we hear of it in connection with God we are led to expect great things; some cheering, some lifting up, some refreshment, some ease, some lightening of our trouble, something very good.

There are sick beds without God, and then of course there can be little comfort. No wonder that the days are long and dreary, and the nights full of blackness, when a man has to bear his trouble alone-when he has no God to