Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-03-05
..,seuslelLITY TO PAIR.

y,avs an Important Part
power "si,eylation OF suffering.
" 40 Knows that the best nurses
EVER eolmest nurses, and the calm
pre 'us o are very seldom indeed the
bit nu'' .rbo really suffer most at the
purses s heir patients suffering. One
elgn, u nreat advantages which the
'ns Themselves feel in entering
a,pta is that their s,,er ing faces uo NOV ot
couie o oronnd them; that the sympathy
fl's excite is only mild sympathy
Fhey w. one which heightens their
300 n ,"io And it is equally true Of
cSn p ,;hiIitv to very different kinds OF
lnseiis,,a-moral and spiritual suffer-
siD'' ,hat a certain measure OF insen-
nv as well as sensibility, to it is
' r. a.s. condition of the power to
lne m The teacher or priest who
10 lead penitent to truer
F ~ higher view of his life must
anu /, ;nsensible to the keenness OF his
n0' " III and the bitterness OF his
alSuls. hnt at the same time, he must
'ai antar into it so deeply as to be I'M
~ o hv H. and to be haunted by it
~ bis daily duties. If he is. he will
@ nai,e incompetent for his spiritual
s,rt and will be an inefficient not an
N 's.isnt guide in spiritual things. No
,..sorninr man, however deep his own
Sa and remorse, would go for
na .Ianoa to one who was likely to
sn almost as much as himself, out
y sympathy with him AS some very
.,r relative perhaps might. Such
~. ,;ao would be bad guide, aud a bad
f a lust because his sensibility
sould be TOO vivid, and his Judgment
rould be thereby perverted. 1t is the
.,me even with sufferings that are not
sor,l and where the sufferers do not
.onire Guidance. 1t is quite mistake
~ those who live with such sufferers
,onroach themselves, as they often
/, with their own insensibility. We
nav he absolutely certain that those
rbo wish to feel more than they do,
[reallv feel quite as much as they ought,
mite as much as the purpose OF God
intends that they should. There is an
Unworthy pride in great senslbliity
rbicb is not consistent with either true
humility or true usefulness. Hardly u
.,Hsrer exists who is not the better i'll
.,ood of the worse for seeing that
+hose around him are not utterly over
rbplmed by his suffering-that so far
/. he can 90 out of himself at all he
NAV get little relief by entering into
the less overshadowed lives around
him. and tasting indirectly another q
euioyments. We ought to be grateful
hot only for being able to enter into
hbe sufferings of others. but for not be-
Inc allowed to enter into them too
keenly. The self-reproach which one
10 often hears uttered, that
HE suferings of others do
hot reflect themselves wildly
enough in the hearts of the bystanders.
Is an ungrateful self-reproach for a
limitation for which we have great
reason to be thankful. Not only would
suffering that reflected itself ade-
eustely in other hearts be fatal to the
Work of the world, but it would be
Natal, too, to the best and almost the
only alienation of which that suffering
Itself admits. A really patient and
Undetermined man will be quite as
thankful for his insensibility as for his
sensibility, and will recognize that it
b to the former, at least, as much as
tOthe latter that his power to alleviate
suffering is due London Spectator.