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Paul knew that only grace abundant could enable us to live above the miasma of criticism. And, highest of all, God Himself and His Word are never free from critical attacks.” “Lawrence is just a babe in Christ,” said Elise. “He needs to really see His face! “ ‘Since mine eyes are fixed on Jesus, I’ve lost sight of all beside. So enchained my spirit’s vision, Looking at the Crucified.’ ” “Do you mean,” Elise asked softly, “that we must just pray for Lawrence and give him silent encouragement to —well, to press on in the Way?” “That’s all you can do. Christ is our only cure. And if he goes on he will have some, such experience as that which came to the two on the walk to Emmaus. I have been read ing the life of Mrs. E. P. Prentiss, who wrote ‘Stepping Heavenward.’ She says in her girlhood diary:—‘I have always felt a peculiar love for the passage that describes the walk to Emmaus. I have tried to analyze the feeling of pleasure which it invariably sheds over my heart when dwelling upon it, especially upon the words, “Jesus Him self drew near and went with them ” and these, “He made as though He would go further,” but yielded to their u r gent “Abide with us.” This is one of the comforts of the Christian. God understands him fully, whether he can ex plain his troubles or not.’ ” Pauline burst upon them w ith: “Little Sister has just said the cutest thing! Just lis ten ! ‘Uncle Alan told me that speech was silver and silence was golden. Is it because the rain makes such a chatter on the roof that it’s silver ? And when the sunshine makes the windows all golden and heavenly, is it that gold be cause it’s silent?”
Elise arose hastily from the sand. “I ’ve long been con vinced that we have one person with the power of ratioci nation in the family,” she declared. “Lead me to this phenomenal child, Pauline. I ’ve bothered Uncle with my sorrows long enough.” As their voices died away the tall brown man turned to the sunset and the sea. He was conscious again of a certain mark cruciform that had been burned deep and black within his own soul. Long ignored, it was still there! “It was always my particular cross,” he said softly, as one speaking intimately to One who he knows is not far away. “Thou knowest the fearful pressure of this cross— the bitterest pain of it being that it is laid upon us by those of our own household. In all our afflictions Thou art afflicted. But no sorrow is like unto Thy sorrow, and no cross is comparable to the heavy Tree whereon we were saved! Help this child when it comes her tu rn ! Be with her in her first bearing of i t ! Let it never leave the scar upon her heart that it has left upon mine!” And then he found that although he was standing upon the ruins of a castle of sand he was looking across a reso nant ocean, whose evening waters were silver, into a silence that was golden. Ski The Bible There is no new advice to give the young. Life is what it has been from the beginning. Temptations change with environment, and nothing but an inner strength can resist temptation of any kind or age. There is only one book to which I can refer you, and that is the Bible. There is no other book like it, because there is no other book which is the revealed will of God. Follow it, and you cannot go astray.— William J. Bryan.
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