working. I’m still unloved and I ’m still lonely, but I’m rejoicing because God is working. I believe He is going to save my husband, bring him back to me, and make him a real man of God.” Here was a woman of great faith! This woman had literally risen and grown spiritually into a glorious maturity through this experience. She had moved into a place of victory! The joy which had filled her heart was being seen through the lives of her children. They, too, were praying for their father. A BUSY BUSINESS MAN'S PRAYER Take my wife and let her be Consecrated, Lord, to Thee. Take her moments and her days; Leave me mine for my own ways. Take my weekly offering That so grudgingly I bring Yet report as 10 per cent So that more will be exempt. Take my voice and let me pray Sundays —* maybe twice that day; Otherwise, O Lord, my mother Handles prayers for me and others. Take my children, show them how Respect is due me here and now; Make them do just what I say, Not to follow in my way. Finally, Lord, at end of life Make me faithful as my wife, Today, you may be unloved and in the midst of circumstances which cause you sorrow and distress. You may be a woman with a broken heart. You may be a man with sheer despera tion written across the face of life itself. Standing above all else is the truth that God is able. Take God at His Word. You don’t try to under stand it, or to reason it, or to work it out. How many of us are carrying bur dens which are needless for us to That together we may be Ever, only, all for Thee! — Frances R. Longino "
Dr. James 0. Henry, Chairman of the Divisionof Social Science and Professor of History, Biola College, is a Major in the United States Army. This summer Chap lain Henry worked with cadetsat Camp San Luis Obispo, California. Having served for thepast 12 years with the 40th Armored Division,California National Guard, ChaplainHenry has been, for the past two years, servingwith the California Miltary Academy Cadet Training Program.
shou ld e r? We w o rry our way through a situation knowing that our worry has absolutely no value to the real problem. It really makes it hard er for us. Still most of us follow the same old pattern of worry, frustra tion, and distress. Why not give God an opportunity to do something mi raculous in and through us? Why not come to the position that this woman did and say, “Heavenly Father, I can’t understand it, and yet, I want to take You at Your word. Here it is, now you work it out. It may be a broken home or a coming operation for a health problem. It could be financial disaster, trouble with a teen age son or daughter, or one of many things which we face. When we com mit these things to God then we go forward expecting Him to do some thing. Are you unloved amid sorrow and distress? Why don’t you come to Him? Walk right into the problem, right into the difficulty, trusting Him in child-like faith, to answer the deep est needs of your longing heart. 6
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