Affliction has its lessons, which, I trust, I am profiting by, because between times I can catch so many, though broken, moments to read and to study the "wonderful words of life," through which our blessed Lord speaks to us.

Then, again, the tender care which must be bestowed upon our own dear ones helps to make us "tenderhearted" (Eph. 4:32), and sympathetic toward all the Good Shepherd's afflicted and suffering sheep.

We get so sternly righteous, that grace alone, learned through suffering, helps to make us more and more able to feel for others a little like Him who is "touched with the feeling of our infirmities."-Extract from a letter.