Christian work Author:J. C. Smith Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: HE fatal dart of Death has entered here, and pierced the body of our suffering friend. Vainly he seeks to wrestle with the enemy. Night and day has the batt... more »le continued, and the arts of the physician have been called in, if haply the venom could be extracted. But it all seems useless ; it courses still within his veins, and withers him away slowly but surely, like the hapless plant with the worm at its root. But the Christian who is trusting and resting in the Lord Jesus has a comfort in life and in death which the world knows not, neither can it take it away. ' Since better is Thy love than life, My lips Thee praise shall give ; I in Thy Name will lift my hands, And bless Thee while I live.' I spoke to him of conversion being a believing in Jesus, and having Him in our heart, and thenprayed that Jesus would come and dwell in our hearts for ever. I left Galatians iv. 6. with him: ' And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.' On Sabbath I called again. He was weaker in body. He said he desired to give Jesus his heart. I asked did he now do so ? ' Yes,' he said. He also, in answer to my inquiries, said he desired now to put away his own merits and righteousness, and to rest on Jesus, His merits and blood alone, for the pardon of all his sins. We had solemn prayer : telling Jesus that my dear friend took Him to be his Saviour, to rest on His dear breast for ever. Next visit he was sitting at the fire, weak and ill; his wife was ill also. And he said he was trying to keep up ' for her sake.' I put a shawl over his knees ; he seemed thankful, and said his knees were cold even in bed now. He said he was seeking to be resigned to the will of God, as to the issue of his illness. I gave him ' Behold the Lamb of God...« less