Sitting Under His Shadow with Great Delight

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 28, 1873

Sitting Under His Shadow with Great Delight

The Rev. Mr. Young was one stormy day visiting one of his people, an old man who lived in great poverty in a lonely cottage. He found him sitting with the Bible open on his knees, but in outward circumstances of great discomfort, the snow drifting through the roof and under the door, and scarcely any fire on the hearth.

“What are you about to-day, John?” was Mr. Young’s question on entering.

“Ah! sir,” said the happy saint, “I’m sitting under His shadow with great delight!”