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A woman
was a professor of religion. She was an ardent "church worker" but
she was worldly. Sickness came, and, as she thought, death had come. The doctor
was there. Friends were standing around the bed. She was, as they thought,
unconscious. The doctor said, "She is sinking, she will soon be
gone." The woman later said, "I could understand them, but could
not speak. I felt that I was surely dying. I felt myself sinking into
eternity and out before me was an ocean of inky blackness. Horror filled my
soul. I could not speak but I could pray." "Thank the Lord, we can
pray and God will hear if we cannot speak." She said, "I did pray.
I said, 'Lord, I have been a hypocrite. I knew better. I am sorry and
ashamed, and if you will spare me and forgive me, I will be true." God
heard her and she was spared. When she was well she admonished all to be sure
it is well with the soul. It is fearful to come to the end and find an ocean
of darkness. |
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From:
EFFECTIVE ILLUSTRATIONS By William Moses Tidwell, Printed in U.S.A. 1943,
Beacon Hill Press Kansas City, Mo |
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