Consolation
Type
Book
Authors
Category
Healing
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Publication Year
1944
Publisher
The Oriental Missionary Society, United States
Pages
282
Subject
Grief Healing
Tags
Description
A splendid collection of 365 spiritually sympathetic admonitions written after the death of her husband, Charles Cowman, missionary to Japan. Mr. and Mrs. Cowman went to Japan in 1901 and labored for seventeen years.
In Mrs. Cowman's words: It was when my heart seemed breaking under the anguish of a terrible bereavement that Jesus was revealed to me as the "God of all comfort." Between the shadows of Gethsemane and Calvary, He made Himself to me a "living, bright reality." I longed to call out to my fellow-Christians who were treading the vales of sorrow and tell them that HE went with me through the Garden, that He heard me when my prayer was but a cry, that He kept me and bore me up where the very air was still, that He whispered peace, that He gave courage, that His grace was all-sufficient.
The various messages and poems contained in this volume, sent by friends from all over the world, came to me with a peculiar power. I was sensible of the gentle and refined touch that can only come to those who have suffered. They contributed largely in healing the broken heart and binding up its wounds.
"Consolation" is intended as a companion to "Streams in the Desert," though purposely its pages are addressed to those whose hearts have been storm-swept. In the first awful days of heart loneliness after a bereavement, the mind is not able or disposed to follow pages of continuous thought -- hence this volume is in the form of a reading for every day.
There is a touching tradition regarding the Jewish Temple of old, that it had a gateway reserved exclusively for mourners. Such is the present volume. It opens up a pathway to God's sanctuary trodden by the footsteps of pilgrims of the night. It addresses no hearts but broken ones. Though it is not in our power to make sorrow no sorrow, yet it is in our power to take off the edge of it by a steady view of those divine joys prepared for us in the beautiful Summerland yonder.
May the messages herein bring comfort to the loneliest pilgrims to eternity! They may not drive off all the dark; but they are glints of light in the dark that may make the night more tolerable, or show you where to place your feet in the next step of the journey and perchance to you may be given a song in your Desert of Sorrow, a note of praise from Him who "giveth songs in the night."
Death, a sad fact, yet remains. It is still mysterious and we comprehend not. But the word of promise still echoes "What I do thou knowest not now, but thou shalt know hereafter." staying ourselves on this as on a staff, let us journey bravely on toward the sun rising.
Lettie B. Cowman 900 North Hobart Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif. September, 1932.
In Mrs. Cowman's words: It was when my heart seemed breaking under the anguish of a terrible bereavement that Jesus was revealed to me as the "God of all comfort." Between the shadows of Gethsemane and Calvary, He made Himself to me a "living, bright reality." I longed to call out to my fellow-Christians who were treading the vales of sorrow and tell them that HE went with me through the Garden, that He heard me when my prayer was but a cry, that He kept me and bore me up where the very air was still, that He whispered peace, that He gave courage, that His grace was all-sufficient.
The various messages and poems contained in this volume, sent by friends from all over the world, came to me with a peculiar power. I was sensible of the gentle and refined touch that can only come to those who have suffered. They contributed largely in healing the broken heart and binding up its wounds.
"Consolation" is intended as a companion to "Streams in the Desert," though purposely its pages are addressed to those whose hearts have been storm-swept. In the first awful days of heart loneliness after a bereavement, the mind is not able or disposed to follow pages of continuous thought -- hence this volume is in the form of a reading for every day.
There is a touching tradition regarding the Jewish Temple of old, that it had a gateway reserved exclusively for mourners. Such is the present volume. It opens up a pathway to God's sanctuary trodden by the footsteps of pilgrims of the night. It addresses no hearts but broken ones. Though it is not in our power to make sorrow no sorrow, yet it is in our power to take off the edge of it by a steady view of those divine joys prepared for us in the beautiful Summerland yonder.
May the messages herein bring comfort to the loneliest pilgrims to eternity! They may not drive off all the dark; but they are glints of light in the dark that may make the night more tolerable, or show you where to place your feet in the next step of the journey and perchance to you may be given a song in your Desert of Sorrow, a note of praise from Him who "giveth songs in the night."
Death, a sad fact, yet remains. It is still mysterious and we comprehend not. But the word of promise still echoes "What I do thou knowest not now, but thou shalt know hereafter." staying ourselves on this as on a staff, let us journey bravely on toward the sun rising.
Lettie B. Cowman 900 North Hobart Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif. September, 1932.
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