p. 2 | A PASTOR’S EXPERIENCE

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 17, 1898

A PASTOR’S EXPERIENCE.

ONE Saturday evening I received a letter from the leading man of my church, offering his resignation as deacon and clerk, and demanding his letter of dismissal. I could not have been more startled by a clap of thunder from a clear sky. I at once called to see him to know the cause. I found him nursing fancied wrongs, and in no mood to reason or recall. After prayer with him, I returned home very much dejected because of the possible effect on his large following in my small mission church. I tried to cast the burden on the Lord and leave it with Him, but failed, for my soul was full of anguish. I wet my pillow with tears, and heard the clock strike every hour until two o’clock in the morning. Shortly after this there came to my mind these words: “The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?” Ps. 27:1. At once there came a strange, sweet peace to my heart, and I fell asleep. I went to Sunday-school, and was handed his resignation as superintendent. Of course, it created a stir when it became known, but somehow the words of the psalmist kept ringing in my heart, and I had peace. The little flurry soon calmed down, and our church work continues as if he had not been.—The Examiner (Baptist).