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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 15, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 37.

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CONFIDENCE IN GOD.

CONFIDENCE, when one begins a voyage, that he will be saved, may rationally be based upon the precautions he takes against the casualties that are probable, those that are improbable, and upon the merciful providence of God. The certainty that he will reach the end of his voyage is not communicable. The safety of the Christian is in the deep, adamantine conviction that God is in the plan upon which he, the Christian, is working, and that he will reach his desired haven if that is essential to the plan; if not, he is safe anywhere in any state.
Should the Christian find himself sinking, his prayer is, “Lord, save or I perish,” but if he perishes, his cry is, “Tho I die, yet shall I live again.” The uncertainty of the sea in the tempest, even when combined with the terrors of shot and shell from fort or ship of war, tho a trial to one’s composure. does not complicate the problem. He whose faith takes on the form of deep confidence that he will reach the port in safety, but who finds himself sinking in the sea, if it be his faith is genuine confidence in God, lays hold of the truth that “it is as near to heaven by sea as it is by land.”
How sublime the words with which, for the comfort of His people, God inspired His servant: “By terrible things in righteousness wilt Thou answer us, O God of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea”!—Christian Advocate.