"He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses."
Her chief delight was to lead men, women, and children to the house of God. It does not seem strange, therefore, when we find the foregoing emphatic declaration in her diary: "I am much encouraged by the attention paid to the reading of the Scriptures." This is the glorious result of getting people first to attend to the means of grace in the sanctuary on the Lord's day. How greatly cheered she must have been in her work to hear the welcome words: "You have done a great deal for us, by teaching us to trust in God."
What is God's estimate of those who trust in Him? Here the mind is forever set at rest. He proffers innumerable blessings to those who confide in Him, and we will, right now and here, give our attention to a few of the many precious promises by which God richly entertains his children:
"Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee; because he trusteth in thee; trust ye in the Lord forever; for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength."—Isa. xxvi. 3-4.
"He that putteth his trust in me, shall possess the land, and inherit my holy mountain."—Isa. lvii. 13.
"Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit."—Jer. xvii. 7-8.
CHAPTER XVIII.
THE DYING MOTHER AND THE INTEMPERATE HUSBAND.
I know there are realms where the voices of song