Entroduction ACH one knows that he must die alone. EA How few realize that, for the most part, it is God's appointment that each should live alone, and suffer alone? Each one must "bear his own burden," feel his own incommunicable grief, which "often lies like lead upon the heart, or like ice within the heart." Solitude and a sense of isolation are not peculiar to sickness. They who walk abroad in the busy world have their own "loneliness of heart,” and find it "truly hard to bear." This deep, weary sense of isolation is a call to the sick to sympathize with, and better to understand the trials of those in health. There is in every heart more or less craving for sympathy; a restless craving in those who have not learned where to turn for true sympathy, and that "One only and only One is enough" to satisfy all their yearnings. There are few who do not think it hard that their lot of woe is not more borne by others. They think it ought to be; they expect it; they crave for it; they "cry 1 Gal. vi. 5. |