The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 1000, February 25, 1899Various
General
The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 1000, February 25, 1899
Various
Children's literature -- Periodicals
Are not you, the dear friends with whom I am sharing my precious
letters, glad of the privilege of looking over my shoulder or of
listening whilst I read them? Do we not owe much gratitude to those
of our circle who allow us the privilege of learning from their
experience, especially when it gives us new and sweet proofs of God’s
faithfulness and love in leading His children?
As I finished this letter from “_Une de mes filles_,” I felt such
a longing to bring her into communication with some of my other
correspondents who seem to be groping blindly and helplessly after
God. They want to know Him, serve Him, love Him, yet are wandering in
all directions save the right one, and are cherishing doubts, brooding
over isolated passages in God’s Word, and entertaining hard thoughts of
Him Who “is love,” because of occasional texts which they cannot fully
understand.
I want very much to write to some of these correspondents, who seem
to me all the dearer because of their troubled minds and the eager
questionings which prove that they are in earnest in their search
after truth. But I cannot answer them here and now. I have so many
pressing duties which cannot be put aside, and which make additional
correspondence most difficult. Dear troubled ones, you are not
forgotten. I ask always that a better help than mine may be given you,
and I want you to look round amongst your friends and think whether
there may not be quite near at hand, some kindly earnest Christian who
will delight in being a comfort and help to you. In one of our old
talks on “confidences,” I gave you some examples of those who went far
afield to find what was really close at hand. In any case, I hope
to write to several of you whose real names and addresses I have, or
through the Correspondence page, with the Editor’s permission.
I must give one or two brief extracts which prove how greatly many of
the members of our “Twilight circle” value such religious communion.
“A periodical is so vastly improved when the spiritual side of one’s
nature is looked after and fed.” “It is most encouraging and cheering
to know that God’s name is upheld in the magazine read by so many girls
as well as those more advanced in life. I get such blessing out of our
little ‘Talks in the Twilight.’ So many would not buy what they call a
‘religious book,’ and these talks give them the opportunity of seeing a
few words from the ‘Book of books’ when they otherwise would not.”
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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