PROMISE FOR JUNE 28th

"Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee." Isaiah 26:3

Stephen had this same rest and joy even while his enemies were stoning him to death; and thousands more of God's saints can testify to the same thing--in the midst of poverty, sickness, affliction, temptation, and enemies on every hand, and even in the flames of violent persecution. Whence comes it? or how are rest and even joy compatible with such conditions? The answer is: it is a rest of mind--"Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee." None can know the blessedness of this rest until they have experienced it. And none can realize its great value until they have been put to the test of affliction. R. 1961, c.2, p.6.