Gain What is gain? The worldly man says money; the Word of God says godliness. What can money do? Can it cure an aching head? Can it ease an aching heart? Can it scare away disease? Can it restore health to the sickly frame, or hope to the hopeless heart? Ah, no! It may purchase a softer pillow to nurse the pain; it may secure a more experienced physician to battle with the disease; it may find a sunnier climate, in which the wasted frame may pine and languish till it be laid to rest in its ling home; but there the power of money ends. How is it with godliness? It cannot purchase the softer pillow. Yes, it can. It can place the aching head, the aching heart, on the pillow; the soft, the downy pillow of contentment, "Father, not my will, but Thine be done." It can secure the services of the Great Physician and the balm of Gilead: the hand that heals both soul and body. It can waft the wearied heart that feels the pangs of suffering. The inroads of disease, the approach of death: that heart it can waft into the sunnier regions of eternal day, and, while the wasted body pines, the brightening spirit, hovering on the outskirts of Heaven, tastes a peace that passeth all understanding, a joy unspeakable and full of glory. --R.B. Nichol
Posted on: Sat, 03 Aug 2013 17:11:17 +0000
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