Influence of Health and Disease on Christian Experience (5) 1860

Spiritual Depression, concluding counsels, how to remedy this. "Some years ago, a minister from Virginia was lying sick at our house in Cincinnati. He had nearly recovered; but, as it often happens, he had become very desponding, and seriously concluded that he should not live to reach home. Just while he was talking thus gloomily, our family physician came in. Discovering the desponding state of the invalid, he gradually turned the conversation into a more pleasant channel; and in half an hour he had the sick preacher
laughing heartily."