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With His life’s Mood, and sought Through" this sorrow and pain, to win home again. He is counting on you. If you fail Him, what then? “He had counted on you,- and you failed not; Oh, the joy and grace, just to, look Christ in. the faGe, and not be ashamed. You presented your scholars all (with His call; He had Counted on you, and you failed not, what then?” the great disappointment of my youth, and I wondered afterward how I could speak of anything so sacred to a stranger, until the thought came to me that you were His friend and helper in this sinful world. Shall I repeat the story ?v The experience was so wonderful that I’ye wondered if God ever honored a deserted woman with a similar one, I turned on my pillow too hopeless for words, My hand touched my Bible and somehow it opened at the fifty- fourth chapter of Isaiah. I read it, got up, dressed, went downstairs and took up my life where I had left it. I believe He sent you to me when I was sick and alone there in Los Angeles, because He knew; I needed one of His friends. “And the splendid auditorium and the fine speakers I heard there, and the good those sermons did me, never shall I forget it a ll! I got to thinking about it today, and somehow my heart just overflowed trying to express its gratitude in this letter to you. If all the hundreds of people who stop at that Institute are blessed as I am, what a blessed place it must be I”1
the Holy Spirit is counting on you. He says, “Remember Jesus Christ.” “There is none' other name under Heaven given among men whereby we must be saved. “He is counting on you,' He has need of your life in the thick of the strife, For that weak one will fall if you fail His call. He is counting on you. >If you fail Him, what then? , ■. fjj• “He is counting on you’, “on a love that will share In the burden of prayer, for those He has bought T HE following extracts from a letter written to Dr. Mary Armstrong, resi dent physician at the Bible Institute, by a lady who fell ill while here from another part of the State, bear such excellent testimony to the atmosphere of the Insti tute that they are reproduced for those of our readers who have had no personal experience in the same direction: “What a haven of rest that wonderful Institute is, and how much good my soul received while there! Hymns of praise was my alarm clock, and as I awoke and listened, His sweet Presence seemed very near. I talked so much about the place after my return, that a young man who had heard me made it his home during the week he was in Los Angeles, and when he got back he told me I hadn’t over-praised it. It seems to me if I could live there I’d grow saintly. And here I’ve written all.this and haven’t told you who Tam. I had a room on ~ the sixth floor from the nineteenth of August until the fifth of Sep tember—and how much you did for me! Oh, I can’t forget it! I spoke to you about
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AN APPRECIATION
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