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Hope Lies with God

Pastor John Hannah wrote:

As I was writing the end of my sermon yesterday, the telephone rang and a student said, "Last night my child died." What could I say to him? I will say to him what I would say to anyone. It's captured in this gospel song: When darkness veils his lovely face, I rest on his unchanging grace; when all around my soul gives way, he then is all my hope and stay.

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