Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

1916 Lsrrfzns 127
Israel held up Moses' arms while the battle raged. I did
not attach any serious import to this, but now I think I
begin to get a faint glimpse of the awful burden the dear
man was carrying, I remember he told me on a number
of occasions, that the oppression was so severe he thought
he would never survive it. He also told me one morning
when he was driving me to the train that he was not trying
to peer into the future to foreknow events, but that
he had made acovenant with the Father just to know
his will from day to day. He also said that he might be
taken out or forced out of the body anytime, and that
there were times when he thought it might be soon, that
his work here was finished, or words to that ei'fect,I recall
what a peculiar shock this gave me, but I do not remember
what, if any remark I made.
It was glorious privlege indeed to have known him and
to have called him friend; and I treasure in my heart the
hours I have been so fortunately permitted to spend with
him as precious, precious hours. He was a Master Mind,
the true and faithfulservant of God and to his fellowman-
He has left a legacy in the way of a practical, reasonable,
profound, sublime philosophy, an incorruptable inheritance
for every honest seeker after truth, to which he may
come and eat and drink and be refreshed.
It may
be that his work here was finished, and that
the Father has called him to new conditions.
It may be
that the time is not yet ripe, or that the world's mind is
too horribly perverted and concentrated or the pressure
too great to permit of the demonstration of bodily imortality
at this time. I do not know, but I do know in my
soul that God rules, that nothing can thwart his purpose,
and that all is well.
Ialso know that Jesus Christ, a son of God, the Godman
planted the Spirit of Truth in the body of mankind,
that its fruits are bound to be manifest in their perfec-