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in bring her lo that point where she would dare to expose herself and her
>in.s lii our pity and our mercy, and to reveal to us the sail story of her
|i;inI life. She came tremulously near making that confession one day
>|itn*lly before I left on furlough, when she said, “'There is something I I
want to tell you some day about myself but l cannot do it yet, I am ashamed e
tu." As long as any of us had any knowledge of her she continued to be .1
weighted down by the sin which had so mightily beset her but in the face
uf all these disappointing factors she had revealed a meek and humble e
spirit and an evidently sincere desire to learn and to believe. And it was it
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this spirit of gentleness in her and this evident hunger for the high and
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holy that helped us who knew her to keep on praying for her until we
heard of her death. \Ve knew, too, that friends at home had been pray­ it
ing for her, and how greatly we had desired to be able to rejoice them
with good news about her. K

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So far we had gone and then we had to drop the matter and continue
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ir way and work, resting on the many promises of Clod and entrusting
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II the results to Him. But it is indeed as we sing, “Sometimes a light
’* • ,rises, "The Christian while he sings." So also while he prays and ut
. he carries on in faith. And so it seemed on that day the tale was ui
"ilC is if the Lord had drawn a curtain aside for a brief moment and :t*
l‘"‘ ’| Uj, f(,i* our encouragement a vision of what we shall witness some Hi
„pcu \heii we shall see gathered around the throne those who have been lie
i ia>' !' i.d out of every tribe and tongue and nation. 'There are two facts A
11 *1 old especially remember in connection with this account. One is vr
>Vi* u,aS the testimony of a Moslem and therefore of a potential enemy
that 1 'Client, who ordinarily would be unwilling to admit or concede anv- it
.iii*! faVor of our cause. The second factor is that this testimony came m
thiHtf ‘V . all(| that as regards any of us, we did not know such testimony tut
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