This work was often provided to soldiers during the Civil War to comfort them. An example of an accompanying pamphlet follows: The following work has been arranged for such of our soldiers as have, by reason of wounds or disease, been compelled to exchange active service in the field for the harder and more wearying service in the hospital, or on the bed of sickness and pain. If it be true that - "They also serve, who only stand and wait, "surely they serve who suffer and endure. Sickness is as truly a "state of life into which it pleases God to call us" as is health, and it is to be used for the same end - His glory, and our own good. Suffering, endurance, whether of pain or trials, is as much a vocation as is the full exercise of the powers of mind and body in the active duties of life. It is what God calls us to - it is His work, and He will bless it. It may be the work of lying still, of not stirring hand or foot, of scarcely speaking, scarcely showing life. Still it is His work.