{"id":977,"date":"2013-08-02T14:00:55","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T14:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/?p=977"},"modified":"2018-06-07T17:07:46","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T17:07:46","slug":"god-and-suffering-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/?p=977","title":{"rendered":"God and Suffering : Illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In our Christian Book Store online, you will find a great variety of books compiled or written by Edwin and Lillian Harvey. Among them, is the \u00a8Call Back Series.\u00a8Shortly after they began to compile books from their extensive files, Edwin and Lillian Harvey realized the need to address the subject of God and suffering. Why did He allow suffering into the lives of the saints? How did they cope? What fruit did it produce in their lives? What forms of suffering do we, as God\u2019s children and members of the human race, have to go through?<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69d76b02232693023115037' value='69d76b02232693023115037'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69d76b02232693023115037' value='Continue reading...'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69d76b02232693023115037' value='Show Less'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69d76b02232693023115037' ><\/p>\n<p>Perusing their files, they discovered a poem that inspired the title for these books on this subject of God and Suffering entitled \u00a8Call Back.\u00a8 Here it is:<\/p>\n<p>Call Back<\/p>\n<p>If you have gone a little way ahead of me, call back\u2014<br \/>\n\u2018Twill cheer my heart and help my feet along the stony track;<br \/>\nAnd if, perchance, faith\u2019s light is dim, because the oil is low,<br \/>\nYour call will guide my lagging course as wearily I go.<\/p>\n<p>Call back and tell me that He went with you into the storm;<br \/>\nCall back, and say He kept you when the forest\u2019s roots were torn;<br \/>\nThat when the heavens thundered and the earthquake shook the hill,<br \/>\nHe bore you up and held you when the very air was still.<\/p>\n<p>O Friend, call back and tell me, for I cannot see your face;<br \/>\nThey say it glows with triumph and your feet bound in the race;<br \/>\nBut there are mists between us, and my spirit eyes are dim,<br \/>\nAnd I cannot see the glory, though I long for word of Him.<\/p>\n<p>But if you\u2019ll say He heard you when your prayer was but a cry,<br \/>\nAnd if you\u2019ll say He saw you through the night\u2019s sin-darkened sky\u2014<br \/>\nIf you have gone a little way ahead, O friend, call back\u2014<br \/>\n\u2018Twill cheer my heart and help my feet along the stony track.<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-69d76b02232693023115037' class='bg-showmore-plg-link  '  style=\" color:#cc1818;;\" href='#'>Continue reading...<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our Christian Book Store online, you will find a great variety of books compiled or written by Edwin and Lillian Harvey. Among them, is the \u00a8Call Back Series.\u00a8Shortly after they began to compile books from their extensive files, Edwin and Lillian Harvey realized the need to address the subject of God and suffering. Why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2167,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions\/2167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}