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96 Job's Comforters
for self-study, for stock-taking, for a clearing up, for a
moral and spiritual housecleaning.
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40. - Bbe Patb ol Borrow
o AWAY with penance, humility, obedience, and
self-denial, and you abolish the crucifix. But so
long as we retain that symbol, constantly preaching to
us the story of God's sufferings; so long as we believe
that He suffered not merely to make atonement for
our sins, but to teach us to "fill up those things that are
wanting of the sufferings of Christ" in our flesh (Col.
i. 241.; so long must the spirit of self-denial remain in
practlce in the Church that He has founded.
The path 3f sorrow, and that path alone,
Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
41. - 3ob7e Gomfortere
ANY, like the comforters of Job, look upon all
m calamity and suffering as the direct result of sin
and say: "Sin, and you suffer; sin not, and you s&er
not." But Christ seems to point to a higher harmony
and a more profound reason, and indeed to a solution
of the problem which, though it may leave something
to be desired by human reason, is all satisfactory to
Peason illumined by faith. "Neither this man hath
sinned nor his parents, but that the works of C,od may
be made manifest in him." Out of suffering comes
all good, and in the providence of God it is the means
of lifting man to the very pinnacle of greatness hem
below and to eternal beatitude hereafter.
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