God's Care for the Righteous.
By Etta Booth
. . . . “Where were the righteous cut off?” Job iv, 7. Job, through all his affliction, kindled not the wrath of God against him. He spoke of God the things that were right, and was blessed, and when he was old and full of years God took him. David, the man after God’s own heart, served his own generation, then fell on sleep by the will of God. Is not the will of the Almighty likewise manifest at the present time? The ungodly can claim no divine protection. They are given into his hands whose children they are, and where is the promise of deliverance in the day of calamity? But the righteous fulfill all their allotted time, perform all that God has appointed, complete their whole work, and then, by the will of God, they lay their armor down, and fall asleep. It is then, and not till then, that the righteous leave us. Let us hope, and mourn not.