Will you follow him, or will you remain in the
wilderness and perish when the night comes, as it surely will? If
you will follow him as well as you can, he'll bring you to a happy
and eternal home. Thanks to his patient kindness which never
falters, he has brough me almost there.
"And now, my young friends, beat with an old man, and let me say,
in conclusion, that you all need the kind, patient, faithful Friend
that I found so long ago. No evil, no misfortune can come into any
human life that is beyond his power to remedy and finally banish
forever. I you have not found this Friend, this Life-giver, I am
younger and happier than you are to-day, although I am eighty-eight
years old."
Once before a rash, despairing man lifted his hand against his life,
but God's message to him, through his apostle, was, "Do thyself no
harm." And now again a faithful servant, speaking for him whose
coming was God's supreme expression of good-will towards men, had
brought a like merciful message to another poor soul that had taken
counsel of despair. Ida Mayhew might learn, as did the jailer of
Philippi, that God has a better remedy than death for seemingly
irretrievable disasters.
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