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Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. of Trinity College, Cambridge

Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. of Trinity College, Cambridge

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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ISBN10: 1150683481
ISBN13: 9781150683480
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 106
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.25 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
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. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...brace yourself to bear it. I know how much can be borne. Give your sufferings to God nobly. Your patience is none the less noble because you have brought this on yourself; nay, it makes it even nobler.... Don't say that many worse sinners go unpunished. How can you tell? How do you know they are not suffering? There are only, I suppose, two men in the world, besides yourself, who know that you are suffering now, and why. God visited me with suffering once; He has brought me through, and I have never ceased to thank Him for it; and He will bring you through, too, dear friend, I know. 'Pro jucundis aptissima quseque dabunt di; carior est illis homo quam sibi.' That thought has left me patient, if not glad, in many a bitter hour. You are never out of my thoughts. And this letter leads me naturally to the second great principle that pervaded all his writings--the education of individuals. One is inclined to believe that there is a great deal of hopeless irremediable suffering in the world--suffering of a kind that seems wantonly inflicted, purposeless anguish.... That 'regret must hurt and may not heal' is a terrible thought, which, when we get our first glimpse of human anguish, seems almost sickeningly true. But I have seen a great deal lately of such suffering, and it amazes me to discover how extraordinarily rare it is to find the victim taking this view of his case. Either it seems to be a due reward for past action--that ' invita religio' which wells up in the blackest heart, or the sufferer gains a kind of onlook into sweet plains beyond, into which the troubled passage is taking him, and which can only thus be reached.... Of animal suffering, unconscious tortures, it is harder to speak--of the innocent, for so they are, victims of lust...

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