Once I was out with a guide climbing a mountain, and the guide
himself lost his way. He was compelled, greatly chagrined, to
beat about for quite a while till he found it. This could never
happen to Christ.
Sometimes a guide in the Alps, in spite of all his care, loses
the life of a traveler. The unfortunate man may slip and the
rope may break; or, if the rope holds, he may be heavy enough to
drag down his guide with him into the crevasse.
When a traveler hesitated to place his foot in the hand of a
guide who asked him to step upon it out over a precipice when
rounding a perilous turn, the guide reassured him by saying,
“This hand never lost a life.” That was true of the guide, but
it did not prove that he never would lose a life.
Of Christ’s hand stretched out to help us it may be said truly:
“This hand never lost a life, and never can lose one.”--AMOS R.
WELLS, in _The Christian Endeavor World_.
(1327)
=Guides=--See EXPERIENCE, VALUE OF.
=Guides and Prayer=--See BLESSING THE ROPES.