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did she do it? Then there flashed across John's mind the words of the
prophet Isaiah, "Thou meetest him _that rejoiceth_, and worketh
righteousness." God does not go to meet the complaining and the doubting
and the inefficient. He goes to meet the cheerful, the courageous and
the good worker; that is, God helps those who help themselves. And God's
help is not a peradventure; it is potential and mighty to save; "for our
Redeemer is strong. He shall thoroughly plead our cause," in every
emergency of Life.
Very early next morning John turned a happy face homeward. The hero of
today has generally the ball of skepticism attached to his foot, but
between John Hatton and the God he loved there was not one shadow of
doubt. John knew and was sure that everything, no matter how evil it
looked, would work together for good.
It was a day of misty radiance until the sun rose high and paved the
clouds with fire. Then the earth was glad. The birds were singing as if
they never would grow old, and, Oh, the miles and miles of green, green
meadows, far, far greener than the youngest leaves on the trees! There
were no secrets and no nests in the trees yet, but John knew they were
coming.
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