Buchanan, James-Comfort in Affliction

Comfort in Affliction, a series of Meditations by James Buchanan, D.D., reprint of the fifteenth edidtion by Johnstone & Hunter, London, 1850. 
Here is a genuine, spiritual comfort for Christians whose path leads them through the depths of affliction. Written with the warm sympathy of a pastor's heart, this is a book intended to lead the sufferer to look with a single eye to the God of all comfort.
James Buchanan (1804–1870) was a preacher and theological writer. He was born in 1804 at Paisley, and studied at the University of Glasgow. In 1827 he was ordained Church of Scotland minister of Roslin, near Edinburgh, and in 1828 he was translated to charge of North Leith. In 1840 Buchanan was translated to the High Church (St. Giles’), Edinburgh, and in 1843, after the Disruption, he became first minister of St. Stephen's Free Church. In 1845 he was appointed professor of apologetics in the New College (Free church), Edinburgh, and in 1847, on the death of Dr. Thomas Chalmers, he was transferred to the chair of systematic theology, continuing there till his resignation in 1868. (Wikipedia)