Assurance and Comfort for Those Facing Death
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Let not one anxious thought come into your mind. I am sorry you
are so ill, but do everything you can on your part for the recovery of
your health. I will see that all bills of expense shall be settled. I am
not well; not able to travel but a little distance in the carriage. I dare
not commit myself to the lengthy journeys on the cars. As long as you
and I shall live, my home is your home....
Marian, nearly the whole time I have been away I have not relished
food, but I dare not cease to eat, for then I could do nothing. I have
eaten when I could not relish food, in order that I might live. I have
relished food since I came to this place. I put my trust in God and
plead with Him for you and for myself. We are to have no anxieties or
cares. Just put your trust in the Lord. All that is needed for you and
me is to believe and trust in Him who is able to save to the uttermost
all who come unto Him and will put their trust in Him. “Hold fast My
hand,” Jesus says to you and me. You are encouraged to think right
thoughts upon Christ our Saviour—your Saviour and my Saviour. You
have rejoiced in every opportunity of doing what you could to promote
His glory, and you will be led into the city of God when the last trump
of God shall sound, and we shall be received with genuine joy.
Marian, you have been united with me to bring sound doctrine into
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actual contact with human souls, that they may catch the inspiration
and produce sound practice. “The form of sound words” is to be prized
above gold and silver and every earthly attraction. You have loved
the truth. You have felt intensely over the great neglect our Lord and
Saviour has been receiving. Oh, to be like-minded with God! This you
have longed for. There is no genuine saving elevation for man apart
from the truth of God.
“Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy
name” (
Psalm 103:1
). Now please let you and me have a thanksgiving
service every day. Is it not due Him who has spared your life these
many years in answer to the prayer of faith? Give yourself into His
hands in your weakness, and trust in Him fully. We will take the Word
of God as the grand rule of our lives, the heavenly panacea in our hand.
We have tried, you and I united, to bring before minds the true form
of doctrine, mingling holiness, mercy, truth, and love. We have tried
to present these in simplicity, so that souls shall grasp mingled love
and holiness—which is simply Christianity in the heart. We have done
what we could do to present Christianity as the crown and glory of