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Walking With Jesus by Mary Winslow compiled by Debra Maffett

Spiritual meditations for pilgrims in a weary land on their way to glory! Choice selections from the letters and diary of Mary Winslow, (1774-1854).

Spiritual meditations for pilgrims in a weary land on their way to glory!
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unbelief that still lurks within, ever leading us away from Him<br />

who is a present help in every time of need. Take up your rest, O<br />

my soul, in Him who has loved you with an everlasting love, and<br />

will love you unto the end!<br />

~ ~ ~ ~<br />

Surely I have seen an end of all perfection, both in myself and in<br />

others. But, oh, there is One, and only one, and He is perfect. The<br />

goodness, the patience, the loving kindness of <strong>Jesus</strong> surpasses our<br />

conceptions! Eternity only can unfold it to us, and we shall be<br />

even there learning it out forever and ever!<br />

~ ~ ~ ~<br />

We must go in all our helplessness to Him who has said, "<strong>With</strong>out<br />

Me you can do nothing." We must cast ourselves at the feet of<br />

Him who is watching over us with a loving, sleepless eye!<br />

~ ~ ~ ~<br />

The Lord has tried you of late, and I do feel anxious to speak a<br />

word of comfort to you in this affliction. Those whom He loves<br />

He invariably tries. The graces of the Spirit are thus brought into<br />

holy exercise. <strong>Jesus</strong> is there<strong>by</strong> honored, and our souls ascend a<br />

higher round in that ladder that reaches from earth to heaven.<br />

We must sit at His feet, and believe that He does all things well.<br />

What we don't know now, we shall know hereafter. The Judge of<br />

all the earth must do right. Soon we pass away to our heavenly<br />

inheritance, and then we shall see all the way He led us through<br />

the wilderness was the right way, and that not one trial or cross<br />

could have been dispensed with. Oh, let us cling closer and closer<br />

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