I am not sure that it is best for us, once safe and secure on the Rock of Ages, to ask ourselves too closely what this and that experience may signify. Is it not better to be thinking of the Rock, not of the feet that stand upon it?
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Elizabeth Prentiss Quote
“Lay hold on Christ with both your poor, empty hands .”
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