A missionary translator, laboring amongst a tribe in the mountains of Mexico, found it hard to get the right word for 'comfort'.
One day his helper asked for a week's leave, and explained
that his uncle had died & he wanted some days off to visit his bereaved
aunt 'to help her heart around the corner'.
That was just the expression the missionary needed.
- (moreillustrations.com)
John 14:16 (KJV): “And I will pray the Father, and he shall
give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever.”
“If I am walking along the street with a very disfiguring
hole in the back of my dress, of which I am in ignorance, it is certainly a
very great comfort to me to have a kind friend who will tell me of it. And
similarly it is indeed a comfort to know that there is always abiding with me a
divine, all-seeing Comforter, who will reprove me for all my faults, and will
not let me go on in a fatal unconsciousness of them.” - Hannah Whitall Smith.
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