A Book of Comfort for Those in Sickness

Suffering need not be a dark experience…

While illness brings time to think, the natural tendency of our thoughts may not be comforting. Sickness may end activities we once enjoyed; it will make us dependent upon others; and feelings of pain, or of uselessness, or of anxiety about the future, may be very real. To those who are in sickness the author does not underestimate the strength of those hindrances to comfort.

Far from offering superficial advice, P. B. Power's position in A Book of Comfort for Those in Sickness is that no comfort is obtainable unless there be, first, true knowledge of ourselves and, second, right knowledge of God. His main aim is to state what this knowledge needs to be, and to show how with faith in God's character and presence, suffering need not be a dark experience.

Endorsement

'A short but powerful little book that does exactly what it claims—it offers comfort to those who are sick and suffering… It's a book I'd recommend to each and every Christian. Buy one for yourself and buy one to pass to someone else.'
—Tim Challies

About the Author

Philip Bennett Power was born in Ireland in 1822. He graduated at Trinity College, Dublin, and entered the Church of England ministry about 1846. He is best remembered as vicar of Christ Church, Worthing, from 1855-65. He died in December 1899.