Mr. Robert E. Speer tells of going to the house of a friend in
Japan to meet a number of old Biblewomen who were being trained
for Christian service, some of whom were fifty or sixty years
of age before they found Christ. Mr. Speer asked them what
they found dearest in Christianity. He supposed they would say
that what they valued most was the moral peace and joy that it
brought them. Instead, these old women, some of whom had not
been able to read before they became Christians, said instantly
that what they prized most in Christianity was the intellectual
solution of their difficulties that it had brought. They had
come into contact with a Savior who had set their minds free.
Moral rest and peace were sweet, but it was sweeter still to
realize that they were at last serving a reasonable Master.
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