p. 140 | HE CARETH FOR US by John O. Corliss

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 24, 1881

"HE CARETH FOR US."

By John O. Corliss

BY ELD. J. O. CORLISS.

"THE angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them." Ps. 34:7. How often man is brought where it seems no earthly help can reach him. And yet these very extremities God sometimes seizes as his best opportunities to help—best, because at such times we are made to realize more sensibly that God has wrought for us; best, because the help we receive under such circumstances, increases our faith and confidence in God, and teaches us to trust him as "Our Father."

A singular instance of God's care for his children is related as having occurred during the persecution of the sixteenth century. During the awful massacre at Paris, by which so many were removed from the world, Moulin, a celebrated Protestant writer and speaker, in order to escape the fury of the Catholics, crept into an oven. Almost instantly, a spider wove its web over the mouth of the hiding place, and when the enemies of the fugitive examined the premises they passed the oven with the remark that no one could have been there for some days.

Cases of this kind are very numerous, but the above will serve to illustrate how easily God can devise means for the safety of his servants. He can do as much for his people to-day. Certainly his promises are the same, and he will never forsake any who put their trust in him.

My brother, my sister, does the battle sometimes go hard with you? Does temptation or trial press until it seems as though you must give up? Remember the promise of Him who has said, "I will never leave thee nor forsake thee." Learn to trust him and look up with confiding faith, pleading help, and it will come.