PART 4
Like a bolt of lightning these words came into my heart; again I went on my knees, and this time I could pray. I was as one who had stepped out of a thick fog bank; the way was clear to me, and my heart beat fast and loud in joy and triumph. The Lord had delivered me out of this temptation. I hastened down to my dear father’s bedside, as one who was transformed, assuring him that on the following day, I would do all in my power to bring relief.
My dear Charles, what grace the Lord had shown me! Never, in all my life, have I forgotten the Lord’s faithfulness to me in that hour of temptation.”
Again the old man paused in his narrative. He seemed to taste again the joys of that hour, when by God’s grace, he triumphed over the enemy.
The old man continued again. The next morning I went to work with that one hundred dollar bill in my pocket. Upon arriving at the office I found my employer already there at his desk. As I entered he looked at his watch to see if I had got there on time.
‘Here, sir, are the receipts,’ said I, approaching his desk.
‘Very well,’ was the answer, ‘lay it altogether over there.’
‘Would you be so kind as to look over bills and receipts, to see if all is in order, Mr. M— ?’ as I laid the papers before him. It seemed to me he was both surprised and annoyed, as he looked straight at me for some time. He glanced over the papers and continued to write again.
Seeing that I remained at my post before him, he asked me:
‘Well, what are you waiting for?’
‘I desire to know if all is in order,’ I replied.
‘I should have told you at once had it not been so,’ he answered, ‘and now oblige me by going to your work at once.’
‘I want to tell you first that you gave me one hundred dollars too much yesterday.’ With these words I laid the money on the desk before him. The colors in his face chased each other for a few moments, and then he said in a hardly audible tone: ‘Very well, just let it lie there.’
ML 12/04/1938