PILGRIM OF THE NIGHT By Blanche Palmer Illustrated by
Don Fields
Southern Publishing Association Nashville, Tennessee
Copyright
©
1966 by
Southern Publishing Association Monufactured in U.S.A.
eontcnts Preface
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The Unseen Protector
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The Pioneer Spirit
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Beginnings
27
Unto All Men
33
"From Death Unto Life"
47
"Under His Wings"
"I , Ruth ... "
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Deliverance .
85
Return to the Plantation
89
There Lies a Lonely Grave
97
In Thee I Trust
105
Perplexities
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111
Faith and Works
121
"Inasmuch" .
133
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"The Trial of Your Faith"
145
Pre/nce In our undergraduate days in college we were taught that a good biography presented-a la Boswell-the basic facts of an individual's life, both good and bad, minimizing nothing that would make interesting and readable material. But the basic facts needed in this biography depend on one factor-namely, to show that it is possible to live a life of faith in a world of doubt. The author feels that there is great need to get back to the faith of our fathers-those fathers who knew no quibbling, no faltering, no indecision in their lifelong quest for victory. Their minor defeats they made stepping-stones to higher things; for their major defeats in the Christian life they claimed the precious blood of Jesus for cleansing. Surely they were pilgrims of the night, but what pilgrims! An individual weaves his own fabric of life. If he has the rich heritage of Christian parentage and Christian training from his babyhood, he can weave, with divine help, a gorgeous pattern in which the golden threads predominate, one that will shine with a wonderful luster in the kingdom of our Father. Since every human being is human, there are at times faults in the weaving; but by His own alchemy the heavenly Father makes from our faulty weaving a perfect fabric. By His
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own shed blood He dyes the imperfect and unsightly threads in the pattern, making it a perfect whole. Should this biography make the dark days ahead easier for other pilgrims of the night, it will have served its purpose well, for in the last analysis we are all pilgrims of the night, seeking through darkness, always through toil, often through pain, sometimes through death itself, an abundant entrance into the kingdom of light.
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Pilgrim of the night BX 6193 .L37 P3 1966 RHC
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