p. 5 | The Comforter by H. H. Smith

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jun 24, 1908

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 34, No. 26.

The Comforter.

By H. H. Smith

[H. H. Smith, in the Sunday School Times.]

"I WILL pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may be with you forever." A few months ago, while traveling, I saw a little blind girl come into the car. She was not more than seven or eight years old, and had a very bright face. She had been attending a school for the blind, and was on her way home, yet no friend or relative was with her. You ask how she could travel alone? Very well, indeed, for she was put in charge of the conductor, a kind-hearted man, who lived in the same town she did. When he was not engaged in collecting tickets, he sat by her side and talked with her. She thus reached the end of her journey safely, and I saw her placed in the arms of her loved ones when she reached her station. That conductor was a comforter in the Bible sense of that word, which means "one who is called to another's side to aid him." Do we realize that we are like this little blind girl, in a world where we know not the way, yet the Comforter is our ever-present guide, who is striving to lead us to our heavenly home?