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A doctor was summoned hastily, and after a hurried examination, he said lo me, “Your husband’s work is finished. Take him to the homeland immediately, if you would not bury him in heathen soil.” “Worn out” was the term that the physi cian used. His only human hope was across the deep blue in the homeland. We board ed a steamer that lay at anchor, and nut out to sea. What lay ahead of us? We could only trust and wait. Several times during the twenty years of missionary service, the climate of sunny Southern California had restored the tired nerves and renewed his strength. Would it not do so again ? He never ceased to pray and believe that it might, but his closest friends knew that his missionary career was ended. Activity is not the only kind of
service that fulfills God’s will. “They also serve who only stand and wait,” wrote blind Milton. Not always, however, do we accept the Master’s guidance with submis sion and joy, when He calls away from the white fields to the lonely desert. What a change for this keen, active man 1From the din of the battle to the seclusion of the sick chamber 1 From the glow and glory of the work he loved so dearly, to the utter abandonment of it all! Would his faith fail now, at this crucial point? Would he still trust on through God’s silences ? Ah, a triumphant faith was needed just here. God gave it, and he found that it was pos sible to praise God in the darkest hour that ever swept a human life. If God was to give him songs in the night, He must first make it night. The r e f i n i n g fires never raged beyond His control. The bil lows, which, in their approach, threatened to submerge him as they came on, lifted him up to the heaven he was bound for. All the waves were crested with God’s ben ediction. God answered his prayer in His own way, permitting him to be shut in with himself that he might find the trea sures of darkness, delivering him with such a mighty hand that he was glad that the tempest arose, for the furious winds and tumbling seas revealed to him " what man ner of man is this.” : If the great adversary sought by that stroke to mar or bruise a chosen instru ment, he was certainly disappointed; and if he thought, by making the Lord’s ser vant often go heavily, to arrest the work, he was foiled. Charles Cowman stood still beneath the shadow of the cross. It was my privilege to be by his side through the six long pain-filled years. Often Satan came, tempting us to faint under the pressure; but each time when the testings reached their utmost limit, God would illumine some old and familiar text, or a helpful book or tract would providen tially fall into our hands, which contained just the message needed at that moment. One day, while walking along the sea shore, wondering almost if "God had for gotten to he gracious," we noticed a leaflet lying at our feet. We eagerly picked it up and found the exquisite poem, “God smiles on His child in the eye of the storm.” We caught anew a glimpse of His loving face. His choicest cordials were kept for our deepest faintings, and we were held in His strong, loving arms throughout those years, till we learned to love our desert, with its refreshing streams, because of His won derful presence with us. “God does not comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters,” wrote Dr. jowett. One day, when lonely and bereft, a sweet voice whispered to me, “Pass on to other troubled hearts some of the messages that were helpful to you throughout the years of testing.” So a book was compiled, and the first edition of Streams in the Desert was sent on its er rand of love. There came a call for a sec ond edition, and letters were received, not only from America and England, but from Japan, Korea, China, India, Africa, the Con go, Egypt, Australia, Alaska, Siam, and from the islands of the sea, from missionaries and Christian workers, asking for copies of the book. Another edition was published, but soon exhausted; then followed the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh. The eighth edition was entirely exhausted within three months; the ninth edition, five times the number of the eighth, is now almost ex hausted ; and the tenth is on the press. My desk is piled up with letters, many of them from leading ministers and workers of the world, telling of the blessing that has come
to them through reading Streams in the Desert. Streams in the Desert can be obtained from Mrs. Chas. E. Cowman, President, The Oriental Missionary Society. Ameri can Headquarters, 832 No. Hobart Blvd., Los Angeles, California. Price $1.50. God and Gog and 1937 (?) [ Continued from page 136] and “all the world shall worship him” (Rev. 13:8). All the worldf Not quite! The spirit of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego once more is upon their children. The same old command to worship, the same old refusal, the same old spirit of greatest persecution—the “beast” sur rounds the camp of the rebels in Jerusalem. “Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight” (Zech. 14:3). Again He appears in the furnace with His own, and “the beast,” no longer needed as the sword of God, is now put to the sword that goeth forth from the mouth of the Lion of the tribe of Judah (Rev. 19:15). For “I saw the beast, the kings of the earth, and their armies, gath ered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army” (Rev. 19:19). It is the last proud muster of the forces of all that is anti-God. They are “gathered . . . into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon” (Rev. 16: 16). “Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision” (Joel 3:14). It is the roaring of “many waters” (cf. Rev. 17:1, 15). But “the Lord also shall roar . . . and the heav ens and the earth shall shake: but the Lord will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel” (Joel 3:16). The superglory of man is super now only in that it lies atop the bone pile of Gog. The superbeast himself goes into the lake of fire; but the bones of those who followed him form another layer upon the bones of the great northern bear! Bones, at least, can rest in peace 1 Upon an ancient throne in Jerusalem now will sit the Victor, whose name they had pro faned; and “on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.” “Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God: For true and righteous are his judgments . . . Alleluia: For the Lord God omnipo tent reigneth. Let us he glad and rejoice, and give honour to him.” An Easter Pamphlet An Easter pamphlet of twenty-eight pages, with an attractive cover, has been prepared and published by Mrs. N. H. Griffin, 1624 North El Molino Avenue, Pas adena, Calif. It contains a poem entitled “The Coming Kingdom,” followed by scriptural quotations bearing on the same subject. The booklet may be secured from the compiler; the price is twenty cents a copy. As a gift for the Easter season, it should be particularly appropriate. The Heart of a Child An angel passed in his onward flight With a seed of love and truth and light, And cried, “Oh, where shall the seed be sown That it yield most fruit when fully grown ?” The Saviour heard, and He said as He smiled, “Place it for me in the heart of a child.” Faith laughs at that which fear weeps over. ,
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