Excerpt from Clusters From Eshcol, or Words of Comfort and Ecncouragement: Drawn From the Sacred Scriptures for the Afflicted Children of God Can we say as much for the latter? Bible promises do not create these drawbacks on life's enjoyment. Medical science is not responsible for the existence of disease. It presupposes every ailment for which it brings a remedy. So with the gospel. It only provides for what already exists. Sin is the prolific mother of all our woes. Is there a balm in Gilead Is there a physician there? These are questions of infinite moment to every member of our race; and these questions our author preposes to answer. And if long and patient study of the word of God, and long and painful suffering in the flesh will qualify a man to give such answer, then is he in an eminent degree fitted for the task. Clusters from eshcol. The title is itself full of promise. The book does not disappoint the hope the title excites. The Christian reader will find a feast of good things as he studies these pages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.