Always Happy.
There was a man converted here some years ago, and he was just full of
praise. He was living in the light all the time. We might be in the
darkness, but he was always in the light. He used to preface everything
he said in the meeting with "praise God." One night he came to the
meeting with his finger all bound up. He had cut it, and cut it pretty
bad, too. Well, I wondered how he would praise God for this; but he got
up and said, "I have cut my finger, but, praise God, I didn't cut it
off." And so, if things go against you, just think they might be a good
deal worse.
[Illustration: Ruth and Boaz. GUSTAVE DORE. Ruth, ii.]
Ten Years in a Sick Bed, yet Praising God.
I have found people who were poor in this world's goods, in bad health,
and yet continually praising God. I can take you to a poor, burdened one
who has not been off her bed for ten years, and yet she praising Him
more than hundreds of thousands of Christians. Her chamber seems to be
just the ante-room of heaven. It seems as if that woman had just all the
secrets of heaven. Her soul is full of the love of God, full of
gladness, and she is poor. Like Elijah at the brook of Cherith, she is
just fed by the Almighty; God provides for all her wants.
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