I know you are in grief and heaviness; and if it were not so, you might be afraid, because then your way would not be so like the way that our Lord saith leadeth to the New Jerusalem. Sure I am, if you knew what were before you, or if you saw some glances of it, you would, with gladness, swim through the present floods of sorrow, spreading forth your arms out of desire to be at land.


Letters of the Rev. S. Rutherford: With an Introductory Essay (ed. 1827)


I know you are in grief and heaviness; and if it were not so, you might be afraid, because then your way would not be so like the way that our Lord...

I know you are in grief and heaviness; and if it were not so, you might be afraid, because then your way would not be so like the way that our Lord...

I know you are in grief and heaviness; and if it were not so, you might be afraid, because then your way would not be so like the way that our Lord...

I know you are in grief and heaviness; and if it were not so, you might be afraid, because then your way would not be so like the way that our Lord...