should have lost one of the sweetest experiences I ever had in my life. The disorder of my body is the very help I want from God; and if it does its work before it lays me in the dust, it will raise me up to heaven.” It was thus that Job was “chastened upon his bed with pain, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain,” that after being tried he might “come forth as gold.”* Sickness teaches that activity of service is not the only way in which God is glorified. “They also serve who only stand