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GOD'S GUIDANCE.
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When ye are come to the other side of the water, and have set down your foot on the shore of glorious eternity, and look back again to the waters and to your wearisome journey, and shall see in that clear glass of endless glory, nearer to the bottom of God's wisdom, ye shall then be forced to say, "If God had done otherwise with me than He hath done, I had never come to the enjoyment of this crown of glory."


Lead, kindly Light! amid the encircling gloom,
     Lead Thou me on;
The night is dark, and I am far from home,
     Lead Thou me on;
Keep Thou my feet; I do not ask to see
The distant scene; one step enough for me.


Do you feel that you have lost your way in life? Then God Himself will show you your way. Are you utterly helpless, worn out, body and soul? Then God's eternal love is ready and willing to help you up, and revive you. Are you wearied with doubts and terrors? Then God's eternal light is ready to show you your way; God's eternal peace ready to give you peace. Do you feel yourself full of sins and faults? Then take heart; for God's unchangeable will is, to take away those sins, and purge you from those faults.


O, shall I ever learn
     The lesson grand,
That I should never spurn
     The offered hand
Reached out to guide my way
     Through life's dark land?