problem is a sorrow, and you do not readily realize the peace of God. Perhaps you must repeat your affirmations and denials some time before the delusion disappears. But you are faithful, and soon the day is upon you when for you to look upon sorrow is to cause it to flee away, and no word of human language need be spoken.

No effort put forth in the name of God is ever lost. Never think your past aspirations toward God, and your efforts, your strivings, blind though they might have been, were useless and to be regretted. Not so. Those were the days of Moses and the prophets.

“Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things.” --- Matt. 17:11.

You are simply continuing, but now in the straight and narrow Way that leads into life.

In the world, not of it.

This is your satisfaction, to watch the Lord win the victory. Be in the world but not of it. Be among the sinful and sick but not of them, but be holy and healthy. Be walking through sorrow and affliction, not disturbed by it, or overcome by it, but walking over it, as Jesus walked over the sea. While you are in

the world you will meet these things, but they will be no more to you than the storms, the winds, and the floods that beat against the house that was founded upon the rock. The one who is in that house rejoices when the storms beat and the winds howl around, because he is so safe. So with the one who is hid with Christ in God when pestilence stalks the land, and persecutions arise, and slanders, and sorrows, and temptations. “These things have I