"Whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning; that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.”—Romans xv. 4. "Blessed be God, . . the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; "Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them who are in any trouble by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God."—2 Corinthians i. 3, 4. |