A most beautiful incident in connection with Augustus Top lady’s beautiful hymn, "Rock of Ages," was told by the late Mrs. Lucy Bainbridge, who with her husband made the tour of the world to study Christian missions. She wrote: "The Chinese women, it seems, are so anxious to 'make merit' for themselves that they will perform any labor to escape the painful transmigrations of the next life. They dread to be born again as dogs or cats, and the highest hope possessed by them is to be reborn as men.
"In order to secure this they do any and every meritorious act. One whom we saw had with incredible labor dug a well twenty-five feet deep, and some ten or fifteen feet across. With her poor, weak hands she had excavated every foot of it, and it was only after this achievement that she learned of Christ and the gospel of free salvation.
"When we met her she was an old woman of eighty, and stretching out her crippled and aged fingers we sang together:
"Nothing in my hands I bring,
Simply to Thy cross I cling."
Said Charles Spurgeon:
"A glimpse at the thorn-crowned head and pierced hands and feet is a sure cure for 'modern doubt,' and all its vagaries. Get into the 'Rock of Ages, cleft for you,' and you will abhor the quicksand."
"He was wounded for our transgressions,
He was bruised for our iniquities."