106
but the tedious guerrilla war against his weapons of disease, debility, depression and despair. But only last week a great word of assurance came as we read Daily Light together: "We have this treasure in earthen vessels that the excellency of the power might be of God and not of ourselves." I commented that only in her present weakness was her testimony to the power being from God alone incontestable. She thought that novel and was comforted. That she could bring herself to ask to be loved was the measure of the grace upon which she had come to depend; for us, it was the surest sign of the victory of faith. She concluded the account of her concentration camp experience which she wrote for her absent husband with a comment and a poem. First the comment: "Is not the broken net a symbol of God's purpose for a change of situation - an advance in spiritual growth unmeasureable by worldly success? The net broke. Follow me. This is the only sequence - from failure to triumph. And if you don't come back, we shall, God helping us, continue in that triumphal procession until we catch up with you in that beautiful country where there is no more sea." To which we may now add"... and where the need to teach others to know the Lord is no more 'because they shall all know me from the greatest to the least, saith the Lord!"
Finally, the poem:
The smoke ascends A spiral stair The power of faith Uplift of prayer. Till dawn appears And dark night clears The victim, victor If he trod Death's vale Towards God.
Made with FlippingBook flipbook maker