FEBRUARY 26TH, 1912

FEBRUARY 26TH, 1912

MY DEAR —, — ... Have you thought of Mark 4: 35 - 39 as a figure of the present time? The Lord is asleep: that is, He is not intervening in any outward way to quiet the wind or waves that buffet His own. The question is, Are we content to trust Him asleep? To bear the buffetings of the storm in the quiet rest of knowing that He is near, even if He moves not to still the tumult? To do so is the present triumph of faith. How often, alas! unbelief wakes Him, instead of the soul being subject to the charge addressed to the daughters of Jerusalem: “I charge you, daughters of Jerusalem, by ^[p. 60] the gazelles, or by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please”, Song of Songs 3: 5. The gazelle and the hind suggest the swiftness with which He can move when the suited moment comes, and He pleases to arise and deliver His own. Till then it is our wisdom to trust Him in all His love and power so near us, though outwardly He gives no sign of moving on our behalf. Depend upon it, though He may sleep as to outward intervention, His heart wakes with deep and abiding interest in His own and all their testings and sorrows.

Yours very affectionately in Him,

February 26th, 1912.