'All my trust on Thee is stayed,
All my help from Thee I bring,
Cover my defenceless head
With the shadow of Thy wing.'


After I had sung those words a strange peace came down upon me,
and through the long night I remember having felt no more fear."

"Now," said the other man, "listen to my story. I was a Union
soldier, and was in the wood that night with a party of scouts. I
saw you standing up, although I didn't see your face, and my men
had their rifles focused upon you waiting the word to fire, but
when you sang out,


'Cover my defenceless head
With the shadow of Thy wing.'


I said, 'Boys, put down your rifles, we will go home.' I couldn't
kill you after that."

God was working in each of them, in His own way carrying out His
will. God keeps his people and guides them and without Him life
is but a living death.

III.

The third element in life about which I wish to speak is LOVE.