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 TRUST IN GOD. 
 
 LONDON; DEAN & SOX, 
 
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"IN GOD DO I PUT MY TRTTST." 
 
 " MoTKiai, what did the psalmist mean 
 
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 «vhen he said, ' Preserve me, God! for 
 in Thee do I put my trust?'* 
 
 ** Do you remember the httle girl we 
 saw walking with her father in the woods 
 last week ?" 
 
 *' Oh, yes, mother ; was she not beauti- 
 ful r 
 
 ** She was a gentle, loving little thing, 
 and her father was very kind to her. Do 
 you remember what she said, when they 
 came to the narrow bridge over the 
 brook?" 
 
 *' I do not like to talk about the bridge, 
 mother, it makes me giddy. Do you 
 beheve it is safe — just those two planks 
 laid across, and no railing? If she had 
 stepped a little to one side, she would 
 have fallen into the water." 
 
 '' Do you remember what she said?" 
 
 ^'Yes. She stopped a minute, as if 
 she did not like to go over, and then 
 looked up in her father's face, and asked 
 him to take hold of her hand, and said, 
 ** You will take care of me, father dear ; 
 I don't feel afraid when you take hold of 
 my hand.* And her father looked so 
 
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 lovingly npon^ her, and took tight hold of 
 her hand, as if she were very precious to 
 him." ^ ^ 
 
TRUST IN GOD. 
 
 '* I think David telt like that Httle girl 
 when he wrote the words which you have 
 *ust read/* 
 
 *'Was David going over a bridge, 
 mother ?" 
 
 '' Not such a bridge as the one in the 
 woods ; but he had come to some place of 
 difficulty in his life, and whenever he was 
 in any way troubled, he looked up to 
 God, just as the little girl did to her 
 tather, and said, * Preserve me, God!' 
 It is the same as if he ha.: said, ' Please 
 take care of me, my kind Heavenly 
 Father ; I do not feel afraid, it you take 
 hold of my hand/' 
 
 'VOh, mother, how beautiful! But 
 
 God did not really take hold of David's 
 
 N hand, and lead him through the trouble?" 
 
 *' No; but God loves His children who 
 truct in Hun — who feel safe in his care — 
 just as the lather did his little daugliter ; 
 and though He does not take hold of their 
 hands, He knows liow to make them feei 
 as peaceful and easy as if He did." 
 
 ** Mother, can 1 be one of God's chil- 
 dren," 
 
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 TRUST IN GOD, 
 
 '' Yes, my dear; if you love Him, and 
 trust Him, and try to please Him, He 
 will call you His own, and lead you all 
 your life, and make you very happy." 
 
 **Will there be any bridges in my 
 life? I mean, shall I have troubles*? 
 Now, I have not any, have I ? I have 
 not to look up to God, and ask Him to 
 take care of me ?" 
 
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 " You must not think great troubles 
 are the only ones we have to meet with. 
 You will have many small troubles, and 
 will need to look to your Heavenly 
 Father to take care of you through 
 them." ^ ^ 
 
 '* What troubles do you think I shall 
 have, mother?" 
 
 '' You had one this morning. Sarah 
 was unkind to you, and you were sadly 
 grieved." 
 
 ''Could I go to God with such trou- 
 bles?" 
 
 "Yes, my dear; you can tell Him, 
 just as you would me, all your unhappi- 
 ness, and ask Him to comfort you." 
 
 '' Mother, I am very glad we read that 
 Psalm this morning. I think I love God 
 better already, and I hope I shall alwavs 
 trust Him." 
 
 '' I hope you will ; and if you begin 
 when you are a little girl, you will learn 
 better and better about Him, and be far 
 happier than those who have no such 
 friend to go to in trouble " 
 
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 TRUST IN GOD. 
 
 *' Why, cannot everybody go to God 
 with then' wants ?" 
 
 '* Certainly, if they will ; but a great 
 many people never tell Him their troubles 
 — never ask Him to torgive them, nor to 
 take care of them. They did not begin 
 in their childhood, and it is difficult to 
 learn these trusts when we are old." 
 
 ** Oh ! I hope I shall learn it now, 
 while you can help me, mother." 
 
 ''God alone can help you, my child; 
 ask Him to teach you to trust Him."