Gratitude for Healing Mercy
By W. Holden
BRO. SMITH: With heart-felt gratitude to God I can say, his mercy and goodness have followed me all the days of my life. When death seemed just before me and the grave soon to be my home, then I thought if my life should be spared, and my health restored, I should know and acknowledge that the Lord had done it. This blessing I now enjoy. "The Lord bringeth low, and lifeth up," blessed be the name of the Lord. With David I can say, I will pay thee my vows, which my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble. Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul. I cried unto him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my tongue. If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me. But verily the Lord hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer. Blessed be God which hath not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy from me. My heart is in union with God's dear people, and with the message they are trying to obey. "My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed." Yours desiring "truth in the inward parts." Jackson, Mich. W. HOLDEN.