Preface

A theological professor used to say to his students, “Never fail in any service to have at least a word of comfort. No congregation, however small, ever assembles, but there is in it one person in sorrow, who will go away unhelped, if in scripture lesson, hymn or prayer, there is nothing to lift up a heavy heart.”

No book for devotional reading would be complete, however full of other lessons, if it contained nothing for those who are in sorrow. In this little volume special prominence is given to the ministry of comfort, in the hope that the book may make some hearts braver and stronger in the hard and painful ways of life. It is affectionately dedicated to those who are called to pass through trial.

J.R. Miller

"There was never a night so dreary and dark
That the stars were not somewhere shining."

Table of Contents

Chapters

1. Glimpses of Immortality
2. Why Trouble Comes
3. “But He for our Profit”
4. Love in Taking Away
5. Trouble as a Trust
6. Some Blessings of Sorrow
7. Comfort in God’s Will
8. Jesus as a Comforter
9. God Himself the Best Comfort
10. The Duty of Forgetting Sorrow
11. Effectual Prayer
12. The Effacement of Self
13. One Day
14. The Culture of the Spirit
15. The Secret of Serving
16. The Habit of Happiness
17. Thinking Soberly
18. Stumbling at the Disagreeable
19. The Duty of Thanksgiving
20. Manners
21. Things Which Discourage Kindness
22. Putting Away Childish Things

The Ministry of Comfort was first published in in 1898.

The transcription was made by Paula Kuczynski: a volunteer. This is Paula’s ninth work and seventh book.

Paula's copy was published in 1901 by Hodder & Stoughton: London. It has 280 pages. The printer was Butler & Tanner, The Selwood Printing Works, Frome and London