‘Bernice, can you imagine a young woman who would love a young man enough to marry him, and who wants to be the kind of wife God intends her to be, a real help meet in every sense of the word, can you imagine, I repeat, that young woman wanting another man?’ “ At that very instant the light dawned. ‘No,’ I said, ‘I can’t.’ ‘Well,’ she said, ‘when you love the Lord completely, you won’t want the world.’ For the first time I felt I could trust myself to the Lord and expect Him to mean so much to me that I wouldn’t want the world.” That night Victor read his Bible and prayed till two a.m. And before he went to sleep he too had accepted Christ as his personal Saviour and Lord. Because of this double con version that Valentine’s night in 1920 the Corys have since regard ed themselves as spiritual twins. Bernice taught high school after graduating in June. Two years later they were married in Chi cago’s North Shore Church. From the outset of their married life the Corys were active in Chris tian work. They worked in the Sunday school, in Christian En deavor and during their first sum mer of marriage they held street comer meetings on an average of four nights a week. During the years four sons were bom to the Corys but even when they were babies the Corys con tinued teaching Sunday school. . With so much of their time de voted to Christian work, Victor was shocked when Paul Bader suggested he’d have more time for Christian work if he’d give up his engineer ing job. Cory felt plainly insulted. But he promised Bader he’d pray about it. That very week Cory had a posi tion offered to him to become man ager of the Tabernacle Publishing Company. He took a hasty look at his life’s work and then resolutely burnt his electrical bridges behind him. C O N T IN U E D
Victor & Bernice Cory On Valentine’s night, spiritual twins
true?’ she said. ‘What you just read. I know it isn’t true, because I love the Father, and I love the world, too.’ “ Victor was sitting next to me. Aunt Jenny knew how I felt about him. I think there was a sly twin kle in her soft eyes when she said,
ture after Scripture being intro duced. She’d comment and answer our questions. The “ heart” verses led naturally to other pertinent v e r s e s o n separation from the world. When she read 1 John 2:15, I stopped her, ‘Aunt Jennie,” I in sisted, ‘that isn’t true.’ ‘What isn’t
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The King's Business/April 1958
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