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9	HEART TO HEART 

  	    When the heart speaks, however simple the words,
  	its language is always acceptable to those who have
12	hearts. 
  	    I just want to say, I thank you, my dear students, who
  	are at work conscientiously and assiduously, for the good
15	you are doing. I am grateful to you for giving to the
  	sick relief from pain; for giving joy to the suffering and
  	hope to the disconsolate; for lifting the fallen and strength-
18	ening the weak, and encouraging the heart grown faint
  	with hope deferred. We are made glad by the divine
  	Love which looseth the chains of sickness and sin, open-
21	ing the prison doors to such as are bound; and we should
  	be more grateful than words can express, even through
  	this white-winged messenger, our Journal. 
24	    With all the homage beneath the skies, yet were our
  	burdens heavy but for the Christ-love that makes them
  	light and renders the yoke easy. Having his word, you
27	have little need of words of approval and encouragement
  	from me. Perhaps it is even selfish in me sometimes to
  	relieve my heart of its secrets, because I take so much
 
 Miscellaneous Writings --- Heart to Heart                                   
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 1	pleasure in thus doing; but if my motives are sinister,
  	they will harm myself only, and I shall have the unself-
 3	ish joy of knowing that the wrong motives are not yours,
  	to react on yourselves. 
  	    These two words in Scripture sug...gest the sweetest
 6	similes to be found in any language — rock and feathers:
  	"Upon this rock I will build my church;" "He shall
  	cover thee with His feathers." How blessed it is to
 9	think of you as "beneath the shadow of a great rock in
  	a weary land," safe in His strength, building on His
  	foundation, and covered from the devourer by divine
12	protection and affection. Always bear in mind that His
  	presence, power, and peace meet all human needs and
  	reflect all bliss.
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