The Inner Life
THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | NOVEMBER 1934
share with her the picture of the Lord Jesus coming to the bedside of Peter’s wife’s mother and overcoming her fever by a touch of His hand. I see her eyes soften with hope and gratitude for that picture of compassion and power. But her lips quiver as she asks if I think it is God’s will that she shall lose her beautiful, needed hand. I share with her another picture,—a man with a withered hand and Jesus telling him to stretch forth the withered hand, and the hand was restored whole as the other. I show her a third picture,—Jesus standing by her bed, (“Lo, I am with you alway”) and telling her to stretch her hand that He might restore it to her, a busy wife and mother. In two weeks she was at home, her hand and arm normal.
“I Will Give You Rest”
A girl is weary because of the sorrow and illness of those dear to her. She, too, is shown a picture of Jesus, the understanding Comforter and Friend, saying, “Come unto Me all ye that are weary.” Again and again she renewed her strength by looking at that picture painted in the lovely hymn,
“I could not do without Thee,
I cannot stand alone,
I have no strength or goodness,
No wisdom of my own;
But Thou, beloved Saviour,
Art all in all to me,
And weakness will be power
If leaning hard on Thee.
I could not do without Thee,
O Jesus, Saviour dear;
E’en when my eyes are holden,
I know that Thou art near.
How dreary and how lonely
This changeful life would be
Without the sweet communion,
The secret rest with Thee.”
“With Me in Paradise”
A mother is in deep sorrow. Her oldest son, a brave boy with a life of great promise ahead of him, has in a moment, through an accident, passed out of this life. I share with her the picture of the Lord of Life giving His promise, “This day shalt thou be with Me in Paradise.” We look confidently and joyously at the hymn-picture of “Jerusalem the Golden,”—“The Prince is ever
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