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          shalt thou trust: His truth shall be
          thy shield and buckler.
          "Thou  shalt  not  be  afraid  for  the            millionaire had broken the law and
          terror by night;                                  was  serving  a  prison  sentence.  A
          nor for the arrow that flieth by day;      Afriend  who  came  to  visit  him  found
          "Nor for the pestilence that walketh       him sitting cross-legged, sewing mailbags
          in darkness;                               with an enormous needle.
          nor for the destruction that wasteth       “Hello,” said the friend, “sewing, eh?”
          at noonday.                                “No,” said the prisoner with a wry smile, “I’m
          "A thousand shall fall at thy side,        reaping.”
          and ten thousand at thy right hand;        “Be not deceived,” the Bible says, “God is
          but it shall not come nigh thee.           not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth,
          "Only whith thine eyes shalt thou          that shall he also reap” (Galatians 6:7).
          behold and see the reward of the
          wicked.                                            ircumstances, however trying,
          "Because  thou  hast  made  the            C       never  put  into  you  what  was
          LORD, which is my refuge, even the
          most High, thy habitation;                         not there in the first place. The
          "There  shall  no  evil  befall  thee;  hammer does not put the sound into
          neither shall any plague come nigh         the bell - it brings it out. A wooden
          thy dwelling.                              surface  will  not  respond  as  metal
          "For  He  shall  give  His  angels
          charge over thee, to keep thee in          does. Difficult people don’t put pride
          all thy ways…"                             or  resentment  into  you  -  they  are
          Each  officer  and  soldier  in  the       “God’s hammers” to show you what is
          Regiment carried a complete copy
          of  Psalm  91  and  either  read  it  or   already there!
          recited it from memory daily.
          Considering the casualty totals for
          the War, and more specifically, the
          casualties experienced by adjacent
          Regiments,  the  chances  that  an
          entire Regiment could go through
          such  front  line  battles  without  a
          single casualty were astronomical-
          ly small!
          [From:  The  Mighty  Hand  of  God,
          Katherine  Pollard  Carter,  Impact
          Books, 1991].
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