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The Two Strong Arms

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 9, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 54, No. 16.

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The Two Strong Arms

A great scholar in Germany went one day to church. On his way he met a poor old man, to whom he wished “Good morning.” The poor man thanked him, but he added that he did not exactly remember ever having a bad one. “Well, then, I wish you much luck.”
“I thank you, sir; but, to tell the truth, I never yet have had bad luck. I have never had yet a sorrowful morning; for if I am hungry, I praise God; if I am cold, I praise God; if it rain or snow, thunder or lighten, I praise the Lord, and am always joyful. And I have never had a bad week. I resign myself to my dear Lord and Saviour, and am sure he does nothing wrong.”
The scholar was astonished at the faith of the poor man, and asked again what he would do if God should thrust him into hell at last. “Thrust me into hell? that he will never do,” answered the poor man; “but if he should, I have two arms—the arm of faith and the arm of love—with them I would hold him so fast that he must go with me; and where my Lord and my guide is, there is my heaven.”—Christian at Work.