Sorrowing Yet Rejoicing Or Narrative Of Recent Successive Bereavements In A Ministers Family By A Beith

Author : Alexander Beith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781731367181
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Sorrowing, Yet Rejoicing written by Alexander Beith and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-14 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the title suggests, this book tells of the experiences of a minister and his wife during a time of whooping cough epidemic in 19th century Scotland. In a period of about six weeks time, four of the couple's seven children died of the disease. In the hope that what they went through might help others also dealing with death and grief, Rev. Beith, wrote this narrative. In addition to chronicling the events of this time of trial, he shares scriptures and insights that helped them in those dark days. In the words of the author, "Though it be seldom that such an accumulation of distress is inflicted on families, few are, at all times, exempted from sorrows similar in kind however they may differ in degree. Such seasons have been kept in view in preparing the Narrative. It may fall into the hands of those who are in trouble as we were, and may prove to them like the voice which Bunyan's Pilgrim heard before him in the valley of the shadow of death. It may speak encouragement and comfort to some such mourner, by testifying that he is not the only traveller in that dark region, and that no strange thing has happened to him in his affliction. Nay, it may produce a blessed hope that the cloud will pass; and a no less grateful assurance that, even whilst it continues, though dark and lowering to those who behold it from without, it is luminous, by the presence of the Lord, within. " Epidemics such as that which visited the Beith family have, for the most part been conquered, but death still stalks, and none are immune from tragedies. It is hoped that this book will prove helpful even to this modern age. This would be an excellent book for the pastor, who must deal with things of this nature. While it is, of course, a sad book, it is also uplifting and comforting.