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Today's reading was edited and adapted from the book Comfort by Hugh Black, published in 1910.

Thank you. by Hugh Black, published in 1910. The world is full of men and women who are carrying burdens of work or care or sorrow, and the burden often seems too heavy

for them to bear.

The sorous part of the trouble is that it appears meaningless, with no evident relation

to life.

The result is that there is only a dull bending of the neck for the load,

or a listless doing of the duty. Should the burden seem inevitable, it would be something if we could

see some useful purpose in it. The apparent aimlessness of pain is more disabling than the pain itself.

Life loses its spring, and the world turns gray, when the eye has no larger vision.

The greatest need of humanity is a message of good cheer, of heartening for the daily task.

But this cannot come by mere well-wishing and the usual surface consolations,

patching another's grief with Proverbs.

It can only be by seeing that the whole of life is reasonable and can be made to show

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