[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"reading-1203":3},"DECEMBER 3\r\nIs it well with thy husband? It is well with the child? And she answered, It is well (2 Kings 4:26).\r\nBe strong, my soul! Thy loved ones go\r\nWithin the veil. God's thine, e'en so; Be strong.\r\nBe strong, my soul!   Death looms in view.\r\nLo, here thy God! He'll bear thee through; Be strong.\r\nFor sixty-two years and five months I had a beloved wife, and now, in my ninety-second year I am left alone. But I turn to the ever\r\npresent Jesus, as I walk up and down in my room, and say, \"Lord\r\nJesus, I am alone, and yet not alone-Thou art with me, Thou art my Friend. Now, Lord, comfort me, strengthen me, give to Thy poor\r\nservant everything Thou seest he needs.\" And we should not be satisfied till we are brought to this, that we know the Lord Jesus  Christ experimentally, habitually to be our Friend: at all times,\r\nand under all circumstances, ready to prove Himself to be our Friend. --George Mueller.\r\nAfflictions cannot injure when blended with submission.\r\nIce breaks many a branch, and so I see a great many persons bowed down and crushed by their afflictions. But now and then I meet one\r\nthat sings in affliction, and then I thank God for my own sake as\r\nwell as his. There is no such sweet singing as a song in the night\r\nYou recollect the story of the woman who, when her only child died, in rapture looking up, as with the face of an angel, said, \"I give\r\nyou joy, my darling.\" That single sentence has gone with me years\r\nand years down through my life, quickening and comforting me. --Henry Ward Beecher.\r\n\r\nE'en for the dead I will not bind my soul to grief; Death cannot long divide.\r\nFor is it not as though the rose that climbed my garden wall\r\nHas blossomed on the other side? Death doth hide, But not divide;\r\nThou art but on Christ's other side!\r\nThou art with Christ, and Christ with me; In Christ united still are we.",1783499794088]