---
title: 'Exasperating Comforters'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Thomas De Witt Talmage'
date: 1898-05-28
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Affliction'
- 'Death and Dying'
- 'Pastoral Theology'
scriptures:
- 'Job 16'
- 'Hebrews 12'
- 'John 11'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/talmage-1898-exasperating-comforters
---

# Exasperating Comforters

T. DeWitt Talmage warns against thoughtless, loquacious comforters and urges gentle, faithful consolation for the bereaved. Trials are fatherly chastening that prepare believers for heaven.

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