There has been much that was dark and
hard to understand; there is much still; but there is plenty to
prove that my Heavenly Father is leading me home as a little child.
"It is a precious, blessed truth that I wish to bring you fact to
face with to-night, and yet it may become a very sad and terrible
truth, if you shut your eyes to it now and remember it only when
it is too late. I wish to assure you, on the ground of simple,
down-right experience, through all these years, that God's 'unspeakable
gift,' his only Son, is just what our poor human nature needs.
Jesus Christ 'is able to save them ot the uttermost that come to
God by him.' He helps us overcome that awful disease--sin. He
brings to our unhappy hearts immortal life and health. I know it
as I know that I exist. He has helped me when and where there was
no human help. I have often seen his redeeming work in the lives
of other faulty, sinful people like myself.
"The question therefore which you must each decide is not whether
you will believe this or that doctrine, or do what this or that
man teaches. The question is this:--Here is a tender, merciful,
Divine Friend. He offers to lead you safely through all the dangers
and hard places in this world, as a shepherd leads his flock through
the wilderness.
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