4. We are become a reproach to our neighbors. Those who have escaped the common foe make a mockery of us; they fling
our disasters into our face, and ask us, “Where is your God?” Pity
should be shown to the afflicted, but in too many cases it is not so, for a
hard logic argues that those who suffer more than ordinary calamities must have
been extraordinary sinners. Neighbors especially are often the reverse of
neighborly; the nearer they dwell the less they sympathize. A scorn and derision to them that are round about us. To find mirth in others’
miseries, and to exult over the ills of others, is worthy only of the devil and
of those whose father he is. Asaph was an excellent advocate, for he gave a
telling description of calamities which were under his own eyes, and in which
he sympathized, but we have a mightier Intercessor above, who never ceases to
urge our suit before the eternal throne.
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