Not Home Yet

 "Sometimes men wrestle with sorrow

as with a dangerous adversary, only to find out in the end that the sorrow through which they have passed was their friend. One of the most notable preachers of the last century, William M. Taylor, relates how he left his home in Liverpool to fill an engagement in Glasgow.

As he left the house to go to the station, the last sight on which his eye rested was that of his little daughter held up at the window in her grandmother's arms. As the carriage drove off, the child waved her father a fond and laughing farewell. Many a time, he said, during the railroad trip to Glasgow, that vision of his little daughter rose up before his memory and filled his heart with joy.

But he was never to see her again. The next morning, he was stunned by a telegram which told of her sudden death. At first, it seemed to him a blow that staggered his faith and crushed his hopes, and put out the lamp of his joy.

But as the years went by and the vision of that child waving him farewell came back to him, it seemed to him as if God had set her in the window of heaven to beckon him upward to his eternal home. "I would not give that memory for all the gold on earth," he said. "I would not part with the inspiration which it stirs within me for all that the world could bestow."

Clarence E. Macartney, Trials Of Great Men Of The Bible