THE LORD'S COMMUNICATIONS IN CYPHER

THE LORD’S COMMUNICATIONS IN CYPHER

I was glad to get your letter. It is a very peculiar and interesting service and education which you are called to in watching beside dear ————’s bed during the silent hours of night. What a time for your heart to hear the voice of the Lord! all the many and various things He wishes to say to you. It is really a desert place, but it is also to “rest awhile”. By night I sought him whom my soul loveth. It is a great thing when the heart is conscious of a line of communication between it and the Lord. Like a telegraphic wire, the slightest touch or motion is a symbol that conveys much meaning. To another it is but as the motion of a hand, and yet to the one who understands the cypher it speaks with deep import. What nights of blessing those otherwise arduous times will be to you, if you use them for learning the sound and meaning of His words to you, and if your heart really listens to every communication which He will make to you. The Lord grant that while you are so truly and devotedly serving ^[p. 241] your brother you may be supremely served yourself by Him, the natural care you render to your brother compensated for by the untold blessings vouchsafed to you from the converse of the Lord with your heart, so that in a way you may return to your ordinary duties here like Moses, who had been with the Lord many days and many nights, not pluming yourself because you had done your duty, but so impressed and formed in taste in His presence that your one desire henceforward will be to be here for Him until He comes to receive us all unto Himself.