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Updated: June 22, 2025
To use the words of her biographer, "She was visited with a severe and all but fatal illness, which was inscribed by the Lord's own hand with all the characters of the believer's death-bed, except that He brought her up again from the gates of the grave, and prolonged her precious life for three years more." So alarming was the illness that she made all arrangements for her departure hence.
However restrained by the rules of polite intercourse, it betrays its existence and its energy in innumerable ways. It displays itself most triumphantly when the mind is suddenly isolated from other minds, when other men unite in heaping neglect and contempt on the believer's head.
"How sweet the name of Jesus sounds In a believer's ear! It smoothes his sorrows, heals his wounds, And drives away his fear." The tremble in her voice ceased, and she went on "It makes the wounded spirit whole, And calms the troubled beast; 'T is manna to the hungry soul, And to the weary, rest.
It now grew upon him, however, that he was losing in spiritual vigour, and that his soul's health was declining under this new regimen. The work now so pressed upon him as to prevent proper reading of the Word and rob him of leisure for secret prayer. A 'chance remark' there is no chance in a believer's life! made by the brother at whose house he was abiding at Plymouth, much impressed him.
It is the closest union that we can voluntarily form on earth, and is the emblem of the spiritual oneness of the believer's soul with Christ. We may be led through circumstances, as you have been, to love one with whom we should not form such a union. Indeed, in the true and mystic meaning of the rite, you could not marry Christine Ludolph. The Bible declares that man and wife shall be one.
The Father's arms round the neck of the prodigal son is a token of forgiveness -the robe, of righteousness divine which is imputed to us; the ring, of our union with Christ; the shoes, of strength, even grace, with which we walk; and the feast of rejoicing, the believer's privilege of joy and thanksgiving.
So Christ shows us that out of the personal sorrow which now rends the believer's heart he shall arise in moral and infinite perfection; that out of the cry of anguish wrung from us by the present distress shall spring the supreme music of the future.
The two bags were installed in the ready car; then a radiant flapper beside an amateur upstart. The driver desired instructions. "Ally, ally!" directed Bean, waving a vague but potent hand. "We've done it," rejoiced the flapper. "Serve the perfectly old taggers good and plenty right!" Bean lifted a final gaze to the laurel-crowned Believer. He knew that Believer's secret now.
We often speak of a believer's longings after purity, after peace, after joy. There is an appetency for them. In like manner, there is in the illuminated and guilt-smitten conscience an appetency for the piacular work of Christ, as that which alone can give it pacification.
As righteousness for acceptance, so strength also for performance of such duties, as God in His covenant doth require and expect at the believer's hands: I have no strength of mine own, but in Christ I have enough; "In the Lord I have righteousness and strength."
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