God Cares for Me

GOD CARES FOR ME. The thought, "God cares for me," has armed man against a thousand emergencies, and been a panoply against ten thousand ills. The heroes who have stained the battlefields with blood, and won our victories for liberty and religion, have survived all disasters through the thought that God's plan is a golden chain that binds each life to his unchanging throne. Beside each fountain of bit- terness, also, that thought has planted some healing tree. In life's darkest hour, it has unveiled some star of hope. It is the thought, also, that God lives and loves and plans that lends con- secration to the brave and chivalrous hopes of youth, that lends untiring strength to those who bear life's heavy burdens, and that sustains men grown old in the battle, in hours when the light of hope burns low within the heart. In the faith that God reigns, and shall reign, f orevermore, the leaders have gone dry shod across all seas, turned stones to angel's bread, caused the rock to gush in cooling streams, found mountains smoking with God's presence, made every hill of difficulty to be bright with the lightning of God's command and promise. He who believes that God cares for men has found the secret of perpetual happiness, sees the best glimmering through the worst, feels the sun's warm beams throb- bing through the thickest clouds. No man can remain permanently miserable who believes with all his heart that the Almighty is his defense, and that a divine guide daily pours light upon a human pathway. — Dr. Aewell Dwight Hillis.