These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. John 16:33
“Not always seen the wisdom and the love;
“And sometimes hard to be believed, when pain
“Wrestles with faith, and almost overcomes.
“Yet even in conflict thy sure words sustain—
“‘In Me ye shall have peace!’”
Above is the fourth stanza of what may have been the last hymn written by Horatius Bonar (and perhaps written on his deathbed, the last stanza beginning “Father the hour is come, the hour when I shall with these fading eyes behold thy face…).
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