THE KING’S BUSINESS GOD’S RIGHT HAND
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A DEVOTED worker in the Salvation Army once called on me, and during a most interesting conversation about Afri can work and workers, related a most beau tiful incident, which I think will interest our readers. She herself had entered into fuller blessing, and was being mightily used of God to the colored people, many of them on her father’s estate; but there was one old Mozambique washerwoman, very poor and very weak, whom she had led to Jesus, who seemed to have fuller joy than she had herself, whose face beamed with holy gladness, and whose one delight was to “tell about JesusA—how He lived, how He loved, how He died. One day this lady questioned her. “How is it you seem to have more joy and more peace than many of us?” “Well, missus, it’s because I lives out of the right hand of God, and you lives out of His left.” “How do you make that out?” “Why, missus, when you wants money, you just goes to your bank or your purse, or when you wants a dress you can get it from the shops; but when I am too weak to wash and there is no food in the cupboard and no money in the tea cup, I just knock at heaven’s gate, and I gets things first hand, for some food is put on my table; or when my old gown won’t last any longer, I goes knocking again, and I says, ‘Lord Jesus, Thy Book says needs supplied, and I only need one gown to cover me till I gets the white robe in the glory land.’ And, missus, the gown comes right along all in good time, and I am that happy at His caring for a poor old crittur like me that I bubble over with joy and I can’t be sad. And, missus, if you have a need that He only can supply, if you knock loud enough and wait long enough, He’ll give it you out of His right hand.” What a lovely lesson for God’s hard- pressed workers to learn- Look up, child of God! You, with those scanty means and, perhaps, many mouths to feed, toiling away
in some shady córner, can you not trust God’s right hand? He has no favorites, and if He can feed and clothe a poor Mozam bique washerwoman, He can do the same for any one of His children. “I f”—of course, we must fulfill God’s condition—“If ye abide in Me, and My words anide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.” Abiding and obedient children—those who live in His presence, doing His will— they shall not want any good thing. A Swedish countess said to me when in Switzerland some years ago: “Difficulty draws me nearer to God, and my difficulty is that none of my children are converted; but although I get alone three times a day and talk to God about them, He never wearies, but receives me graciously, and as sures me that my heart’s desires shall be gratified, and I am perfectly satisfied.” The man who can really pray has nothing to fear. He thinks no unkindly thought of his fellow-men, says rto bitter word that could harm any one, and does nothing but the will of God. Shall we not pray: “Oh, Lord God, lest we fail to be all that we ought to be, and Thou canst not use us to the very utmost of our capacity, take us into Thy school—put us, if needs be, on the lowest form, and teach us how to pray; so that- when we knock at heaven’s gate in the hour of difficulty, and in the more trying hour of success, Thou wilt open and supply our needs out of Thy right hand.”— Mrs. Walter Searle, in The Life of Faith. ------------ 0----------- Robert (“Bob”) Burdette’s favorite tex t: “When I think of a favorite text half a dozen dear ones leap to my lips. Stormy days I want a cloak; cold days I want the sunny side of the wall; hot days I want a shady path; now, I want a shower of manna; now, I want a drink of cool living water; now, I want an arbor to rest in ; now, I want a pilgrim’s staff; now, I want a sword—a right Jerusalem blade. My fa vorite text? I might as well try. to tell which is my favorite eye. The one I might lose is the pne I might want.”
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