The stakes are high, and if on the one hand the game calls forth an immense amount of resource, skill, alertness, self-control, endurance, courage, and even tenderness, helpfulness, and fidelity; on the other hand, it is liable to let loose pretty bad passions of vindictiveness and cruelty, as well as to lead to an awful accumulation of mental and physical suffering and of actual material loss.

[Illustration: King Albert I of Belgium, the beloved sovereign who never lost the confidence of his stricken people during the four years of their intense suffering.

The letters received at that time told of indescribably dreadful sufferings for Christ's sake, and the sight of the Malagasy refugees who fled to Mauritius, fired her young soul with the desire to become a missionary.

that perseverance with which they went through the severest sufferings and the hardest labours to which poor sea-farers were ever exposed, that their toils at last might be crowned with the sight of their native shores and wives at Ithaca!Ulysses is now in the isle Ogygia; called the Delightful Island.

For it is not inequality of income, but actual suffering, which moves the heart of humanity.

They know that it is their duty to work, and they are even desirous of working; but the remembrance of their cruel sufferings in the time of slavery renders them suspicious."

Now, many most excellent and pious persons, and most pious books, seem to think that we ought to-day to think as much as possible of the sufferings of our Blessed Lord; and because we cannot, of course, understand or imagine the sufferings of His Spirit, to think of what we can, that is, His bodily sufferings.

We were silent for some minutes, my own heart oppressed with mingled emotions, all intensely painful, but so confused that, while conscious of acute suffering, I scarcely realised anything that had occurred.

Either a long rainy season or a drought may cause acute hunger and extreme suffering.

We hope and believe that those men whose disagreeable duty it is to slaughter the "beasts of the field" to provide meat for mankind, inflict as little punishment and cause as little suffering as possible.

A patient suffering from the lues venerea was disciplined by long and severe sweating in a heated tub, which combined with strict abstinence was formerly considered an excellent remedy for the disease.

The course of English life in those stations where the worst cruelties and the bitterest sufferings have been inflicted on the unhappy Europeans has been for a long time so peaceful and undisturbed, it has gone on for the most part in such pleasant and easy quiet and with such absolute security, that the agony of sudden alarm and unwarned violence has added its bitterness to the overwhelming horror.

They would never be properly introduced, these two, "'Life is a beautiful possibility,'" she said, "I am proving it so every day,but, oh, the awful suffering in the world!

And can the Christians urge any other plea for their religion when they are unpleasantly reminded that it has caused untold suffering by its principle of exclusive salvation?

She had sketched two, and, doubtful which to proceed with first, contemplated sending both to an American friend for his decision; but constant suffering stayed her hand.

I believe we've got to give an account for all the unnecessary suffering we put on animals.

As was natural, this problem of innocent suffering was prominent in the literature of the period.

There is nothing so heartrending as the sight of dumb suffering.

Theresa remained three months in this place, in most grievous sufferings, for the remedy was worse than the disease.

The bitter pain and fearful suffering will perhaps make a deeper impression than the words of the revolutionaries.

No other people would have resigned itself to the intense misery and to the infinite sufferings which tens of millions of Russians endure without complaint.

She seemed already beyond all earthly suffering.

They could foresee the arduous tasks and inevitable sufferings of a great war, but had no warning of an impending calamity far worse than those which even war, though always attended with horrors, usually entails.

Through the same gate we pass both to glory and to tragic suffering, each of which heightens and measures the other; and it is only so that we can understand the function of sorrow in the Providence of God, or interpret the sudden calamities which sometimes overwhelm human hopes at their highest aspiration,which from the most serene and cloudless sky evoke storms which leave not even a wreck from their vast ruin.

17 the idea of healing disease is substituted for that of vicarious suffering, in Matt.