TRUST IN TRIAL.

Trust in Trial;

OR,

LESSONS OF PEACE IN THE SCHOOL OF
AFFLICTION.

MEDITATIONS, WITH PRAYERS AND HYMNS,
FOR THE SICK AND SUFFERING.

BY THE

REV. W. 0. PURTON, B.A.

"Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the
Lord is."-JEREMIAH xvii. 7.

PREFACE.

IN visiting the Sick I have often felt how helpful would be a book written especially for their use, containing Meditations on words of Holy Scripture, together with appropriate Prayers and Hymns.

At a time when even "the grasshopper is a burden," the task of reference is painful; and an Invalid shrinks from a large book, or pages printed in small type. Moreover, in weakness and weariness, it is comforting to have thoughts of peace suggested to us; to be supplied, as it were, with the very voice of one's own feelings.

I humbly hope that the following pages may prove a help and comfort to some whom God