WHAT more comforting and encouraging promise than that in Isaiah, "I am the Lord thy God . . . which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go"! As a little child confidently slips its tiny hand into the protecting hand of its parent, and trustingly advances in contented joy, so may every child of God realize that really—actually—man is being guided by the wisdom of the all-intelligent, loving Father.
Sometimes the shadows seem dense and appear to linger, and the way looks dark and foreboding. Then we may surely seek the presence of our tender Father-Mother God; then we may turn away from every seeming problem so completely that it goes out of our thought; then we may look into reality so courageously that we shall feel the power of His presence, the clasp of His hand, the loving smile of the All-in-all.
At first it may seem strange to become as a little child, and be led whithersoever He goeth; but God blesses each feeble effort to trust Him. Longfellow has written:
