THE HEROES OF AFFLICTION.
To the Editor. Sir, —I have to thank you for inserting my letter under the above heading, as it occasioned an able and consoling reply, signed " Bertie Crayon." Since writing you, I have had the pleasure to refer to Milton's poem, "In His Blindness," and the lines quoted below have given me much' comfort, and with your kind aid they may be of equal cheer to some bedridden sufferer like myself: " Who best Bear His mild yoke, they serve Him best; His state Is kingly; thousands at His bidding speed, And post o'er land and ocean without rest; They also serve who only stand and wait." Those of us who have heavy burdens of affliction to bear must not forget that the eyes of the great poet who wrote these lines were quenched m endless light, and yet he gave ns "Paradise Lost," which, after Homer's " Iliad," is the greatest poem m literature the world has known. Oh, how true it is that God often chastens His beings for His own good purposes —that is, if they will lean towards Him. CHAS. TURNER. Tuaraugi Home, June 23, 1909.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXIX, Issue 7830, 24 June 1909, Page 3
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