“You see I am alone here. They bought, they sold, they planted, they builded, and God is not in all their thoughts,” but, thank God, this dear friend was able to cast her loneliness on Jesus. as the Holy Spirit brought to her mind her Saviour’s prophetic words, “I have trodden the winepress alone.” How lovely for either of us, who are alone with Jesus. He went alone into the mountain to pray alone into night, but He will be with you, so you will not be alone. I so well remember when I lost my dearest sister in 1881, dear good Mr. Hockin came to comfort me with these words from John 16:32,32Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. (John 16:32) “Alone, but not alone, because the Father is with Me.”
Such a touching little incident occurred just a month ago. A darling little boy, not four years old, was put to bed without kissing his mother, as she was very poorly with a bad swollen face. The poor child felt it bitterly, and couldn’t help crying, so at last his mother went up to see him, and the darling said, in his unselfish child-love, “Don’t come up, darling mummy, with your poor, swollen face; I can kye alone.” Truly we can learn from a little child. May God bless him, and may he grow up to be a blessing to many. EMILY P. LEAKEY.