Consolatio: OR Comfort for the Afflicted. Edited by the REV. C. E. KENNAWAY. WITH A Preface BY ARCHDEACON S. WILBERFORCE. LONDON: FRANCIS & JOHN RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD, & WATERLOO PLACE. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH BY THE VENERABLE SAMUEL WILBERFORCE, ARCHDEACON OF SURREY. THE history of this book will best explain its purpose, and the use to which it should be put. It is the fruit of the long and patient acquaintance of a renewed soul with the precious discipline of weakness and pain. The trials of such a state, and the blessings to be gained from it, may be traced in these pages: they contain, in brief, a library for the sick and the sad-hearted. The extracts here brought together, are passages which, in such hours of trial, have come with thoughts of strength and refreshment to one true sufferer. They are gathered from every source which lay open to her; not from those writers a |