{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_63573/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_63573","id":"gutenberg_63573","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/63573","summary":null,"tags":["Category: Children & Young Adult Reading","Category: Religion/Spirituality","Christian life -- Juvenile fiction","Trust in God -- Juvenile fiction"],"text":"DEAN'S\n\n                      Illustrated Farthing Books.\n\n                          LONDON: DEAN & SON,\n                           11, Ludgate Hill.\n\n                                   41\n\n\n\n\n                      \"IN GOD DO I PUT MY TRUST.\"\n\n\"MOTHER, what did the psalmist mean when he said, 'Preserve me, O God!\nfor in Thee do I put my trust?'\"\n\n\"Do you remember the little girl we saw walking with her father in the\nwoods last week?\"\n\n\"Oh, yes, mother; was she not beautiful?\"\n\n\"She was a gentle, loving little thing, and her father was very kind to\nher. Do you remember what she said, when they came to the narrow bridge\nover the brook?\"\n\n\"I do not like to talk about the bridge, mother, it makes me giddy. Do\nyou believe it is safe--just those two planks laid across, and no\nrailing? If she had stepped a little to one side, she would have fallen\ninto the water.\"\n\n\"Do you remember what she said?\"\n\n\"Yes. She stopped a minute, as if she did not like to go over, and then\nlooked up in her father's face, and asked him to take hold of her hand,\nand said, 'You will take care of me, father dear; I don't feel afraid\nwhen you take hold of my hand,' And her father looked so lovingly upon\nher, and took tight hold of her hand, as if she were very precious to\nhim.\"\n\n\"I think David felt like that little girl when he wrote the words which\nyou have just read.\"\n\n\"Was David going over a bridge, mother?\"\n\n\"Not such a bridge as the one in the woods; but he had come to some\nplace of difficulty in his life, and whenever he was in any way\ntroubled, he looked up to God, just as the little girl did to her\nfather, and said, 'Preserve me, O God!' It is the same as if he had\nsaid, 'Please take care of me, my kind Heavenly Father; I do not feel\nafraid, if you take hold of my hand.'\"\n\n\"Oh, mother, how beautiful! But God did not really take hold of David's\nhand, and lead him through the trouble!\"\n\n\"No; but God loves His children who trust in Him--who feel safe in his\ncare--just as the father did his little daughter; and though He does not\ntake hold of their hands, He knows how to make them feel as peaceful and\neasy as if He did.\"\n\n\"Mother, can I be one of God's children?\"\n\n\"Yes, my dear; if you love Him, and trust Him, and try to please Him, He\nwill call you His own, and lead you all your life, and make you very\nhappy.\"\n\n\"Will there be any bridges in my life? I mean, shall I have troubles?\nNow, I have not any, have I? I have not to look up to God, and ask Him\nto take care of me?\"\n\n\"You must not think great troubles are the only ones we have to meet\nwith. You will have many small troubles, and will need to look to your\nHeavenly Father to take care of you through them.\"\n\n\"What troubles do you think I shall have, mother?\"\n\n\"You had one this morning. Sarah was unkind to you, and you were sadly\ngrieved.\"\n\n\"Could I go to God with such troubles?\"\n\n\"Yes, my dear; you can tell Him, just as you would me, all your\nunhappiness, and ask Him to comfort you.\"\n\n\"Mother, I am very glad we read that Psalm this morning. I think I love\nGod better already, and I hope I shall always trust Him.\"\n\n\"I hope you will; and if you begin when you are a little girl, you will\nlearn better and better about Him, and be far happier than those who\nhave no such friend to go to in trouble.\"\n\n\"Why, cannot everybody go to God with their wants?\"\n\n\"Certainly, if they will; but a great many people never tell Him their\ntroubles--never ask Him to forgive them, nor to take care of them. They\ndid not begin in their childhood, and it is difficult to learn these\ntrusts when we are old.\"\n\n\"Oh! I hope I shall learn it now, while you can help me, mother.\"\n\n\"God alone can help you, my child; ask Him to teach you to trust Him.\"\n\n------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n      Transcriber's Notes:\n\n Missing or obscured punctuation was silently corrected.\n Typographical errors were silently corrected.\n Illustrations without caption were dropped.\n Spelling was corrected in these 2 words:\n   npon - upon\n   rather - father\n\n------------------------------------------------------------------------","title":"Trust in God","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":739}