Seven years in Ceylon: stories of mission life . and by faith we can see it afar,Vox our Father waits over the way, to provide us a dwelling-place the sweet by-and-by we shall meet on that beautiful the sweet by-and-by, we shall meet on that beautiful shore. Cur Dead not Lost. 69 We stood around the open grave, and the native minister opened the Bible and readthose words of Christs: I am the Resurrection and the Life: he that beheveth inMe, though he were dead, yet shall he live. Marvellous words ! Surely nonebut a Divine Saviour could have spoken words so suited to meet the
Seven years in Ceylon: stories of mission life . and by faith we can see it afar,Vox our Father waits over the way, to provide us a dwelling-place the sweet by-and-by we shall meet on that beautiful the sweet by-and-by, we shall meet on that beautiful shore. Cur Dead not Lost. 69 We stood around the open grave, and the native minister opened the Bible and readthose words of Christs: I am the Resurrection and the Life: he that beheveth inMe, though he were dead, yet shall he live. Marvellous words ! Surely nonebut a Divine Saviour could have spoken words so suited to meet the needs of thehuman heart. I looked again at the faces of the father and mother; they wereupturned to heaven, and I saw in them a look of resignation and peace. In my heartI thanked God that we had such a Gospel to give to the heathen—a Gospel whichpresents such glorious hopes. Our dead are not lost, but gone before. We shall meetthem again on the other side, and there shall be no partings there, and God shallwipe away all tears froni all
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