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Christ. It is not joy that is the evidence that you are a Christian. Your
evidence is in a Thus saith the Lord. By faith, I lay you, my dear sister,
on the bosom of Jesus Christ.
Read the following lines [from “Jesus Lover of My Soul”] and
appropriate the sentiment as your own:
“Other refuge have I none,
Hangs my helpless soul on Thee;
Leave, O leave me not alone!
Still support and comfort me;
All my trust on Thee is stayed,
All my help from Thee I bring;
Cover my defenseless head
With the shadow of Thy wing.
Plenteous grace with Thee is found—
Grace to pardon all my sin;
Let the healing streams abound,
Make and keep me pure within;
Thou of life the Fountain art,
Freely let me take of Thee;
Spring Thou up within my heart,
Rise to all eternity.”
I made two copies of the enclosed, one to send to you; but it was too
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poor, I thought, to be read, so laid it by and did not send it New Year’s
as I intended. I think you can read it holding it up to the light.—
Letter
35, 1887
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