"What time I am afraid, I will trust in Thee."
Bessie Bradford had told it to her one day in the early part of the summer.
Mamie had a great terror of a thunder-storm; so had Bessie; but once, when they had happened to be together when one was passing, the former had shrieked and cried at every flash and peal, while the latter, though pale and shrinking, had remained perfectly quiet. Afterwards Mamie had said to her,—
"Bessie, how can you keep from crying when you are frightened in a thunder-storm?"
And Bessie had answered,—
"When I am very much frightened, I try to think of a verse mamma taught me to comfort me: 'What time I am afraid, I will trust in Thee.'"
At the moment it had not made much impression on Mamie; but she had not forgotten the words; and now, in her time of need, they came to her so clearly, as I have said, that it almost seemed as if they were spoken to her:—
"What time I am afraid, I will trust in Thee."
What a sense of hope and comfort, almost of relief, crept over the poor, miserable little child with the recollection!
And "the eyes of the Lord are in every place."