“IT IS GOD THAT GIRDETH ME WITH STRENGTH.”
By F. C. Ross
This scripture came to mind as I went forth from our last Monthly Meeting at Rochester. I felt that it had had its fulfilment in my case. As the eagle beareth aloft her young, so the Lord sometimes bears us, as he speaks words of faith, hope, love, and encouragement to our hearts. We had had an excellent meeting. Five ministers were present, with a goodly gathering of the brethren and sisters. And while a most earnest appeal was made to some present to turn to the Lord, I was led to think of the love of Christ, beseeching, wooing, intreating, compelling, as it were, to come to his arms and be saved. How can we resist his most earnest appeal? If we yield to him, and trust in him, he will gird us with strength. Young friends, you who there started to seek him, he will gird you with strength, and the mountain that appeared so great, may lose half its size when you are called to surmount it. Greater is He that is on our side, than all those that rise up against us. F. C. Ross.