Desired the Same Peace
By B. P. Hoffman
SOME years ago, a young lady who had found salvation in Christ, joined our work at the sanitarium in Kobe. Later she returned to her home province, and engaged in the work of nursing the sick. Although the only believer in her locality, she remained steadfast in her faith, and by loving service to others, witnessed for Jesus. As a result of her strenuous labors, her health failed; and early this year, she passed away. I will translate a portion of a letter received from her father, who had always opposed her in her Christian belief. This letter was written in reply to our letter of condolence. "Many, many thanks for your kind letter regarding our daughter's illness and death. Through the help of you all, while she lived, she had peace of heart through faith in God, and faced death without fear, and fell asleep, saved for the heavenly kingdom. We, her aged father and mother, mourn deeply her early and untimely death; but as we remember her faithfulness to us in life, and her service, which was more than that usually allotted to one woman, we can find no cause for complaint. We rejoice in her achievements, and at the same time, feel a desire to pass our remaining days in the same peace and joy that were hers. It was through the teachings of God that she attained to that good experience, for which we are very, very grateful." While we also mourn the loss of such a consecrated follower of Jesus, we are thankful that she remained faithful to the last, and for this testimony from those who saw her peaceful death.
Kobe, Japan.