Yet a Little While

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 8, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 18.

"Yet a Little While."

THERE is a wondrous healing power in "a little while." A little while, and the tears of childhood give place to smiles of joy; a little while, and the weariness of the toiler is exchanged for refreshment and repose; a little while, and the hour of temptation is past, and he who was sore oppressed by the adversary, raises his thanksgiving to God who giveth the victory; a little while, and the oppressor is broken, and deliverance comes to the loyal, trusting soul; a little while, and the bitter days of tribulation are done, and the heart, tossed, troubled and discouraged, finds repose in the providence of the Lord Jesus Christ; a little while, and the anguish of bereavement is assuaged, the broken heart bound up, the sorrowing soul made glad, and the discouraged one goes forward in the strength of God; a little while, and the weary pilgrimage is ended, the fight is won, and the victory is gained. "A little while and he that shall come will come and will not tarry," is the testimony of faith to the struggling, trusting church.

Let us rejoice in him who thus gives us everlasting consolation; and, though the time to us seems long, and the years to us seem weary, yet our gracious Lord ever whispers in our ears, "Yet a little while." Blessed are they who can trust his precious word, and can believe that "our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal."—The Christian.