' There is a Kingly
Presence in this place that you have not recognized. Do you not
remember who it was that said, 'Where two or three are gathered
together in my name, there am I in the midst of them'?
"I am very old, but my memory is good. It seems but a short time
ago that I was as young thoughtless as any one of you, and yet it
was seventy years ago. I have tested the friendship of Jesus Christ
for over half a century. Have I not then a right to speak of it?
Ought I not to know something about him?
"Do you ask me if my Master has kept me from trouble and suffering
all these years? Far from it. Indeed, I think he has caused me a
good deal of trouble and pain in addition to that which I brought on
myself by my own folly and mistakes; but I now see that he caused
it only as the good physician gives pain, in order to make the
patient strong and well. But one thing is certainly true. He has
stood by me as a faithful friend all these years, and has brought
good to me out of all the evil. I have been in sore temptations
and deep discouragement. My heart at times has seemed breaking
with sorrow. Mine has been the common lot. But when the storm was
loudest and most terrible, his hand was on the helm, and now I am
entering the quiet harbor.
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