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Out of the Depths Have I Cried

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 9, 1913

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 90, No. 41.

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Karmatar Mission Home, west Bengal.
Karmatar Mission Home, west Bengal.

“Out of the Depths Have I Cried”

By Vera Chilton

SHE is a dear little woman, this pupil of mine, with two bright baby boys, whom she loves dearly. She is learning to love the Saviour, and now finds comfort in praying to him. Yes, she is a Mohammedan, but she has got to that place where her old scruples are laid aside and she prays to a divine Saviour. She knows there is a time before her which may mean separation from those she loves perhaps more than life itself, and her whole being shrinks. I had just read to her the precious promise of Jesus that he who leaves brethren, sisters, father, mother, children, for his name’s sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life. As the picture of the day’s lesson was opened with tender reverence, she stroked the garments of the Saviour in the picture, and as her lips moved almost silently I heard the earnest, fervent prayer breathed forth, “Do thou make me firm and strong. O, do thou give strength to this heart!”
Ah, yes! she needs strength for that which is before her; yet we believe that even from the depths of Mohammedan darkness, out of which she cries, she will be enabled to “do all things through Christ which strengtheneth.”
VERA CHILTON.