A Waif by H. L. T.

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 7, 1865

A Waif.

By H. L. T.

God's children are never orphaned. He lives, they live. He calls them 'sons' and they learn to say 'Our Father which art in Heaven.' In-breathed the spirit of adoption, hence no 'creature' (Rom. viii, 39:) can dissolve the relationship. Why then should faith fail ever, why not always cry in joyful trust, my Father? God's love in Christ to us ward! Blessedest mystery, tribulation, distress, persecution, famine, nakedness, peril, sword, death, life, angels, principalities, powers, present things or future, height, depth, nor anything else there be—shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord! Rom. viii, 35. Sure here is fullness! Certainly here is safety! God's love is hedged with triple covenants. Yea and amen are his seal, and he who trusts, receives. God's sons are fatherless never. Our Father from everlasting to everlasting; the same yesterday, to-day and forever! Believe and be happy.—H. L. T. in Herald of Gospel Liberty.