TRUSTING GOD FOR THE FUTURE.
By Lina Lee
What should we think of the child whose parents were surrounding him with every needed comfort, yet who was constantly fearing that after a while they would cease to love and provide for him? And is it not more surprising that Christians should distrust their Heavenly Father, and fear that they shall be left to know want and destitution, with no one to love and care for them, in old age? Yet how many do this. How many a professed child of God virtually says to the world, “We have no sure refuge, no assurance that we shall be cared for in the future.” Yet God assures his people that he will never leave nor forsake them. “Even to your old age I am He, and even to hoar hairs I will carry you.” What more is needed than this? Why, then, do they not believe him?—Lina Lee, in Rural New Yorker.