“LOW at Thy feet, Lord Jesus,
This is the place for me:
Here have I learned deep lessons,
Truth that has set me free—
Free from myself, Lord Jesus;
Free from the ways of men;
Chains of thought that have bound me
Never shall bind again.
Rest I have found, Lord Jesus:
Stranger to rest so long;
Conflict and sadness ended,
Naught in my heart but song.
None but Thyself, Lord Jesus,
Conquered this wayward will;
But for Thy love constraining
I had been wayward still.
Sweet was Thy voice, Lord Jesus,
Calling me out to Thee;
Step by step Thou halt guided
Into Thy path for me.
When Thou shalt come, Lord Jesus,
When we shall see Thy face,
Then shall Thine own acknowledge
This was the children’s place.”
“GENIE” ―A. E. L.
God’s Power in Gospel Testimony. ―
“When A. M. Toplady, the writer of the well-known hymn ‘Rock of Ages,’ was but sixteen, during a visit to Ireland with his mother he found his way into a barn at Codymain where an uncultivated but warm-hearted believer was preaching from Ephesians 2:1313But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. (Ephesians 2:13). ‘But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.’ The human instrument was un polished, but the Divine word was effectual; and looking back, after some years, on the happy change which passed over his heart during that hour in the barn, and speaking of the gracious sentence which so deeply touched him― ‘made nigh by the blood of Christ’; he said, strange that I, who had so long sat under the ‘means of grace’ in England, should be brought nigh unto God in an obscure part of Ireland, amidst a handful of God’s people meeting together in a barn, and under the ministry of one who could hardly spell his own name! Surely it the Lord’s doing, and marvelous! The excellency of such power must be of God, and cannot be of man.”―Extract.