The soul is secure that stands on the Rock of Ages.
A man was sent out on a rocky promontory in Scotland where
his signals might help a ship working its way in through the
difficult channel in a great storm. Great waves beat upon
that promontory and their spray wet the flagman to the skin,
but he stood his dangerous ground and signaled the ship in.
After she was in some one asked him if he did not tremble as
he stood out there. He answered: “My legs trembled, but the
rock didn’t tremble. I never knew before how solid that rock
was.”--FRANKLIN NOBLE, “Sermons in Illustration.”
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