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THE WIDOW'S SOX 169
glimpse we get of Nain. A fellow-feeling not onlymakes
us kind. It is meant by God to make us
strong.
I
like to think, too, that in the very hour when this
poor widow thought God was far away, in that very
hour she was nearer God than she had ever been in
all her life before. I daresay when her husband died
she had been tempted to wonder if God had quite
forgotten her.
It was so strange that he should have
been taken, and the old drunkard of Nain should still
be spared. Then with a thrill of delight she thought
of her son. He was hers yet, and how she loved him !
The tendrils of her heart, disengaged by her husband's
death, clung with a double passion to her boy.
like his father he was
;
How
she could shut her eyes, and it
was her husband's voice again. And what a gallant
son he was to his lone mother, and how bravely he
had taken up his father's business. Ah! God had
not forgotten her after all. She praised God night
and morning for her son. Then her son died. I
think her heart just broke. Her hope was gone,
Her faith in God was shattered. It was inscrutable,
utterly unexplainable. And she cried aloud, " Can
there be a God in heaven " —and the Son of God
was on His way that very hour, and drawing nearer
and nearer to the gate. God was never so near
her as when she thought Him farthest. He was at
her side when she said, " I am forgotten." She cried,
" I shall never meet with God again," and Jesus met
her in that very hour.
Now that reminds us of another scene. It carries
us forward to the day of Calvary. This same Jesus
is hanging on the cross, and His face is marred more