The baseball team of 1897. and addressed the four members of the committee who were seated with him: This morning in my haste to get an early start on this trip, my wife and I read for our family devotions the brief portion given for this date in the little book Daily Light on the Daily Path. God spoke to our hearts and I want to share this message with you. Then as he read from the page given for March 6, it was evident that God's hand had been displayed in thi~ selection: "The Lord your God ... went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tents, in fire by night to show you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day. - As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: so the Lord alone did lead him. – The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and He delighteth in his way. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand. - Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of the them all. - For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous; but the way of the ungodly shall perish. - We know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according 20/Chapter III to His purpose. - With us is the Lord our God to help' us, and to fight our battles."l Milner's comments deeply moved the hearts of his listeners. They seemed to sense that perhaps the disappointments of their earlier attempts to purchase property had really been God's way of preserving them from a mistake and keeping them for this moment. Allan Lewis led them in prayer, committing their journey and mission to God; and with a sense of divine appointment, the handful of men headed south for Cedarville. Passing through an area of gloomy, overcast skies and falling snow, the party emerged into the bright sunshine. And in the conversation it was noted that perhaps this, too, was symbolic of the bright future God was opening to B.B.I., a school dedicated "For the Word of God, and the Testimony of Jesus Christ" (Rev. 1:9).2 As the men entered the Village of Cedarville, they were delighted to discover that the clean little community gave every evidence of progress and growth. They commented on
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