As to my home, it is in Trouble Hollow. Offense Mountain
rises high on two sides of it. Not many pilgrims like my home; but
Immanuel gave it to me, and any home in Canaan is preferable to the best
spot in the Wilderness, better than the grandest mansion in Egypt. It
is true my home is in a dark valley, and old Offense Mountain has continual
landslides that I have to help clear away; but, glory and praises to
Immanuel! a bare existence in Canaan surpasses anything I ever enjoyed
before. Hallelujah! Angels in bands visit me often. Heaven seems in
sight!"
"Thank you Serene and Joyful. We shall be glad to meet you again."
These two pilgrims whose lives are spent in Canaan's most troubled spots
have a holy serenity that shames us when we think of how we complain at
a few hard things that we have met. Thank God for such pilgrims!
Here is a true story. Mrs. B---- is a cripple woman who walks with a
crutch. Years ago she was converted and later was wholly sanctified. Her
husband was a wicked man who gave her a great deal of trouble and at
last died and left her with several children. They were miserably poor.
She took her family overland for a hundred miles to another place, walking
and carrying their effects as best they could.
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