Section 9
plunge right into the world. However, if this sec ond brother gives a word of testimony, there is nothing sensational about it, and there is no stress on the healing, yet you meet God in his life.
Let me tell a story to illustrate this further. A brother who was engaged in an export business had arranged to send a consignment of goods by a certain ship. Somehow the goods were delayed and were forwarded by a later ship. Shortly after ward, he learned that the boat by which he had originally planned to send the goods had been sunk. How he praised God for His overruling grace! "O God," he said, "how perfect Your guid ance was! You are indeed the true and living God."
Some time later, this same brother contracted tuberculosis, and to complicate matters, he devel oped digestive trouble as well. The tuberculosis called for a nourishing diet, but the digestive complaint forbade it. He was in a sore plight, but his wife comforted him and said, "Don't you re member the episode of two months ago when God saved that consignment of goods? Oh, our God is the true and living God!" But on this occasion God seemed neither true nor living, for the more that the couple prayed, the more the brother hemorrhaged; the more they prayed, the