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Trusting God in the Darkness

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 14, 1909

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 86, No. 2.

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Trusting God in the Darkness

I READ the other day of a little girl who repeatedly awoke in the night, and was terribly frightened with the darkness. At such times she always insisted on coming into her mother’s room and bed. Nothing else would satisfy or soothe her. One night her mother said to her: “You should not do so, Olive; for there is nothing to be afraid of, and it is just as dark in this room as in your own room.” Then, nestling up beside her mother, the little one replied: “Yes, mother, but you are in this dark room.” The mother’s nearness made all the difference in the world to the child. When will we learn to disarm the soul’s fears and soothe its sorrows by an implicit and abiding trust in our God? “Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will . . . uphold thee.”—Selected.