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

1917 LETTERS 371
asking, both for our temporal and spiritual wants, if we
could but leave it to him. I don't mean by this that we
should sit down and fold our hands and wait in the expect
that God will provide for us. But after we have
done all in our power, seeking to be guided by his divine
wisdom, we should then look forward with expectation
of deliverance from our difficulties. If we continually
look to him and trust him, he will not test us beyond
our power of endurance. I have had some trying experiences
during the last two years, but frequently when
I know not which way to turn, a way was opened up for
me, sometimes from a source entirely unlooked for, and
unsuspected; and the thought of God's loving care over
his children, and that he knows what is best for us, has
made me feel that it was a needed experience for me.
firmly believe that God will in some way enable you to
carry on the work begun by Brother Butler. The way
may not appear clear now, but if you will listen I think
you will hear the command to go forward, even as the
children of Israel did when they seemed apparently reduced
to the last extremity with the armies of king Pharaoh
behind them and the Red Sea in front of them, and
no way of escape seemed possible. It required sublime
faith on the part of Moses to march that host of people
down to where the waves of the Red Sea were breaking
on the shore, but "man's extremity is God's opportunity."
In some way he will provide the means. In spite
of the blighting influence of war, people are groping
after the truth.
I cannot but believe that President Wilson was led
by God in the stand he took in this world-war. The time
for universal peace is not yet, the forces of evil are too
strong in the world, and it looks as if nothing but war,
not for conquest or for commerce, but for humanity's
sake must be waged until these forces are destroyed.
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