Riches of grace : $b A compilation of experiences in the Christian life; a narration of trials and victories along the wayByrum, E. E. (Enoch Edwin)
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Riches of grace : $b A compilation of experiences in the Christian life; a narration of trials and victories along the way
Byrum, E. E. (Enoch Edwin)
Christian life
I retired with my Bible spread open before me and, kneeling down, read
and prayed over the chapters in Hebrews which represent the blessed
Savior as our sacrifice and high priest. In the twenty-fifth verse of
the seventh chapter I found this assurance: "He is able to save them to
the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make
intercession for them." Here was something to meet my case. "To the
uttermost" I had insulted him, but "to the uttermost" he could save.
I believed and here my soul entered into rest. I embraced the promises,
rich and boundless, as my own. In Christ Jesus they are all there for
me. I felt and said with heaven-born confidence, "This is firm footing;
this is solid rock. My feet are placed upon it to remove no more." The
view was not transporting or rapturous like my first conversion (if so
it may be called), but calm, delightful, "strong consolation," firmer
than the everlasting hills because founded on the immutable Word and
oath of God in Christ. It was "hope as an anchor to the soul, both sure
and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil."
Eleven years have passed since, and my peace has been like a river. In
the world, to be sure, I have had tribulation and expect to have, for
Jesus told me I should; but, blessed be his name! in him I have peace.
I love the subject of Christian perfection, or entire sanctification
in this life; but I have not been fully able to reach the point to
obtain that deeper experience. Yet I believe I perfectly desire to do
the will of God. May God bless the efforts of all dear brethren who are
laboring to promote the sanctification of believers.
An Indian Mother's Submission
EXPERIENCE NUMBER 19
To show that God works the same in the hearts of his people wherever
they are, I wish to mention the experience of one of my Indian sisters.
Her little son contracted enteric fever. Every possible aid was given
him, but he continued to grow worse. The fever caused him to become
unconscious at intervals. The parents then decided to remove him to a
hospital, that he might have skilled attention. Soon after being taken
to the hospital, he became entirely unconscious, in which condition he
remained for weeks, yes, for months. He was unable to take nourishment
in the natural way and became a wonder to all who came to see him, as he
was at the point of death yet did not die. Many who were not acquainted
with the parents, but heard of the case, went to the hospital to see
him.
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