In the Hospital
Christmas was near, and I was a patient in a hospital away from home. The attending physician informed me that Dr. William D. Marsh, the founder of “The League of the Kindly Tongue,” an organization which has a large membership in the United States as well as in some other countries, was in the same hospital on the floor below. The day he was discharged, he came to visit me. During the conversation he stated that he had recently been relearning and trying to live a hymn which he found very precious. It was one of Toplady’s:
“If, on a quiet sea,
Toward heaven we calmly sail,
With grateful hearts, O God, to Thee,
We’ll own the favoring gale.”
Special reference was made to the last verse:
“Teach us, in every state,
To make Thy will our own;
And when the joys of sense depart,
To live by faith alone.”
Such was the hymn beloved by the man who endeavored to enlist men and women to bring their daily conversation into harmony with the Golden Rule.
This experience brought to my mind the gracious sufficiency of Him whom every believer confesses as