DEAR reader, remember it is God’s Word that declares, that
“The just shall live by faith,” and
“Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved:” and you will find, if you are called to leave this world, and you are looking only to Jesus, and relying only on what God says, you will be able to triumph in Christ, and say,
“Thanks be unto God, who giveth us the victory, through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
When Polycarp was exhorted to swear and blaspheme Christ, in order to save his life, he replied, “Fourscore years have I served Christ, and have ever found him a good Master; how then can I blaspheme my Lord and Saviour?”
When another was asked on his death bed, how he found himself, he answered,
“I have taken my good deeds and bad deeds, and thrown them together in a heap, and fled from both to Christ, and in Him I have peace.”
A servant of Christ attended the dying bed of a young woman, who thus addressed him:
“I have little,” said she, “to relate, as to my experience. I have been much tried and tempted, but this is my sheet-anchor —He has said,
‘Him that cometh to Me I will in no wise cast out.’
I know I have come to Him, and I expect that He will be as good as His word. Poor and unworthy as I am, He will not trifle with me: it would be beneath His greatness, as well as His goodness; I am as His feet, and
“Tis joy enough, my all in all,
At Thy dear feet to lie;
Thou wilt not let me lower fall,
And none can higher fly.’”
ML 10/30/1927