'Along the road to Killarney

Along the road to Killarney

A party of tourists were driving one day along the road to Killarney . As they approached a cottage near the drive, they heard singing. The voice that sang was sweet and rich, and of wondrous power.

The members of the party were entranced. They stopped to listen as the notes of the song rose higher and clearer. Presently a young girl came out of the cottage with a basket on her arm.

"Please tell us who is singing so sweetly in your cottage," one of the party asked her.

"It is only my Uncle Tim, sir," answered the girl. "He has awful pain his leg, and he is singing away the pain."

"Is he young? Can he ever get over the trouble?" asked the young man.

"Oh, he is getting old, now, sir," replied the girl. "The doctors say he'll never be any better in this world — but he's so good it would make you cry to see him suffering his terrible pain, and then hear him singing the more sweetly the more he is suffering."

That is what the peace of God will help us to do. It gives us songs in the night . It puts joy into our hearts when we are in the midst of sorest trouble. It turns our thorns into roses!

"God my Maker, Who gives songs of rejoicing in the night" Job 35:10

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