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Aii Invalid's Story.Mrs. Joseph Foster, of this township, in invalid lady for many years whose life and condition is known to most of our readers, has written the following communication to her friends and requested its publication in the Journal:March 2d. 1891.Forty years ago I was taken down.I That was a warm, nice day. It will be forty years next Jane since I stood alone. O, what a change baa been wrought in these years. Time flies and with it goes our friends, my heart feels deeply stirred thinking of friends of other days. How fond their faithful love, how dear their memory. New friends greet me but the old cannot be forgotten 01 replaced. I have passed through great suffering and trials yet in everythiug I can give thanks. God never leaves me or forsakes me; even down to old age he is with roe, though the king of terror threatens to strike I fear not his blow. Jesus has broken the bars of the tomb and he will conduct me home 1 am a bible reader. I read my bible, the old and the new, through twice last year, my suffering being so great at times I could not bear it any other way. That takes up the whole mind I sing aloud having my affections I placed above I get yery happy—people marvel that I can bear all so patiently and be cheerful—hut when all seems dark I then cry to God. Then cheering passages ot scripture come to me; the darkness being ilumined by the grace of the gospel. It is the bright light of 1 the son of God shining in the Father reflecting back along the straight, narrow path just as it was shown to me in a vision. Therefore our suffering and trials here are not worthy to compare to the glory that shall be revealed to us at that day. Therefore we have no right to tnurmer as oui extremity is God's J opiortunity. Christ saith he thou faithful unto death and I will give you a crown of life and if we be thought worthy to obtain that world we never die but are equal unto the angels; chil- i dren of God being children of the retur* 1 rection so a few more suffering days . then christ will say it is enough, come up higher, enter into the joys of thy lor 1,1 hen as children of Glt;»d hew can we pine; have faith, hope and charity, obey God rather than man. With love I to all and malice to none, \Sarah Foster to her friends. J
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North Manchester Journal
North Manchester, Indiana, US
Thu, Mar 12, 1891
Page 2
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