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  ACCEPTING CONSOLATION
  by Mary Wilder Tileston
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Summary: The sermon emphasizes the importance of faith, endurance, and
gratitude in finding strength and comfort in times of pain and
uncertainty.

Topics: "Faith And Hope", "Gods Comfort"
Scripture References: 1 Thessalonians 4:13

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Mary Wilder Tileston preaches about finding comfort and hope in God,
emphasizing that those who trust in Him will not be left desolate, and
that sorrow should not consume us like those who lack hope. She
encourages embracing happiness, enduring pain, and being grateful for
the small joys in life as a sign of loyalty to departed loved ones.
Tileston speaks of the strength gained through faith in God's wisdom and
love, and the importance of dispelling doubts by actively doing good in
the world.

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None of them that trust in Him shall be desolate.

PSALMS 34:22 That ye sorrow not, even as others who have no hope.

1 THESSALONIANS 4:13 Are the consolations of God too small for thee?

JOB 15:11 (R. V.)

WHAT shall make trouble? Not the holy thought

Of the departed; that will be a part

Of those undying things His peace hath wrought

Into a world of beauty in the heart.

SARAH J. WILLIAMS

SHE spoke of those who had walked with her long ago in her garden, and
for whose sake, now that they had all gone into the world of light,
every flower was doubly dear. Would it be a true proof of loyalty to
them if she lived gloomily or despondently because they were away? She
spoke of the duty of being ready to welcome happiness as well as to
endure pain, and of the strength that endurance wins by being grateful
for small daily joys, like the evening light, and the smell of roses,
and the singing of birds. She spoke of the faith that rests on the
Unseen Wisdom and Love like a child on its mother's breast, and the
melting away of doubts in the warmth of an effort to do some good in the
world.

HENRY VAN DYKE

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/mary-wilder-tileston/accepting-consolation/
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