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From: Charles Spurgeon, Autobiography, 1898.
Though I first encountered this term in The Jewel That Was Ours, 1991, by Colin Dexter (Inspector Morse Series).
From the Oxford English Dictionary:
balm (noun): 6. A healing, soothing, or softly restorative, agency or influence.
benison (noun): 1. A blessing.