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 Copyrighted 1909 
 
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 and tbe spirit ot tbe living <3oo moving upon 
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 Cj I N overwhelming sense of aloneness A bense 
 Jj\ is often borne in upon the human °J 
 
 <s \* soul, bringing a consciousness of Aloneness 
 being alone and apart from every other being 
 in the universe of God. There is a sense 
 in which this is true, but it is also a great and 
 blessed truth that one is never alone. This 
 little message goes forth to lonely hearts 
 everywhere with the hope and the prayer 
 that this sense of loneliness may be lifted 
 from them and a great joy come with the 
 consciousness that one is never alone. 
 
 Thou shalt not want for company 
 
 Nor pitch thy tent alone ; 
 The indwelling God will go with thee 
 
 And show thee of his own. 
 
 — Frederick L. Hosmer 
 
'I AM NOT ALONE' 
 
 Alone in There is no place in the world where 
 
 a QreoX one can feel more lonely than in a great 
 
 City city where there is not a familiar face and 
 
 where the multitude of strange faces go 
 
 surging by. Here one feels all alone. 
 
 It was at such a time that there came 
 to me these words of Jesus: "I am not 
 alone, " and they glowed as with a divine 
 glory, bringing a message of deep joy and 
 peace to my heart. 
 
 I thought of the lonely hearts every- 
 where and a great desire came to me to 
 bear this message of joy and peace to all 
 such. 
 
 As a result this little book goes forth to 
 proclaim the glad message — "/ am not 
 alone. " 
 
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I AM NOT ALONE" 
 
 rE mother bends over her child while Not A lone 
 a flood of love pours through her &l Loving 
 soul, and the child looks up lovingly and being 
 into the mother's face. The two feel that Loved 
 never mother and child loved quite as much 
 as they, or were quite as dear to one an- 
 other. 
 
 Two lovers full of the great passion of 
 love feel that never two loved each other 
 quite as much as they, or were quite as 
 happy as they, but in this each can say : 
 '7 am not alone. " 
 
 Love is as old as God, and wherever 
 human hearts have caught the divine flame 
 they have loved and been loved. The Story 
 is not new. I am not alone in loving and 
 in being loved. 
 
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'I AM NOT ALONE' 
 
 ^Tm* STk MPTATION comes t0 me *** a 
 , . ^1 constancy and a persistency that 
 
 talion 4^p- ._. L1 . . 
 
 seems irresisTibie or again it comes 
 
 like a whirlwind, sweeping everything before 
 
 it. I feel that my temptations are peculiar, 
 
 that they are a little stronger, a little more 
 
 fierce and a little more difficult to meet than 
 
 those that have come to other hearts. 
 
 Then I hear the voice of Scripture 
 saying: "There hath no temptation taken you 
 but such as is common to man." And I be- 
 gin to realize that ail about me is a multitude 
 fighting the fierce battles of temptation, all 
 needing the same divine help. The whole 
 world has to meet temptation. Again the 
 voice of Scripture comes to me that my 
 Saviour was "in all points tempted like as 
 we are, and yet without sin," and He knows 
 how to succor those who are tempted. 
 
 / am not alone in temptation 
 
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"I AM NOT ALONE' 
 
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 terne 
 that 
 
 VERY heart knoweth its own bit- 
 terness.'* It does seem to me 
 the burden under which I 
 stagger is a little heavier than anyone else 
 ever carried, the pain at my heart a little 
 more intense than that of any other aching 
 heart, and the cup of sorrow that I have to 
 drink is a little more bitter than anyone 
 else ever had to drain. Yes ! I feel alone :n 
 my sorrow. No one knows just how to 
 understand or sympathize with me in this. 
 Then again the message comes to me that 
 Jesus was "a man of sorrows and acquaint- 
 ed with grief," that he said : "My Soul is 
 exceeding sorrowful, even unto death" and 
 that he, having known the fulness of sorrow, 
 comes to me with sympathy and love. 
 He opens my eyes and lets me look out, and 
 I see all about me others with heavy bur- 
 dens to carry, with thorny paths to walk 
 in, with aching hearts and burdened spirits. 
 As I see these suffering ones, my own 
 
 Not Alone 
 
 in 
 
 Sorrow 
 
"I AM NOT ALONE" 
 
 The Qreat heart goes out in great sympathy for them. 
 
 Fellowship While the knowledge of their sorrow does 
 of not make my own less, it does enlarge my 
 
 Suffering sympathies and gives me a new passion of 
 love for my brothers and sisters — God's suf- 
 fering children — and I realize that the great 
 fellowship in this world is the fellowship of 
 suffering. 
 
 Then I remember that it is written, the 
 Captain of our Salvation was made "perfect 
 through suffering," and I learn that there is 
 no other way that his children can be tried, 
 proven and made fit for the kingdom except 
 through suffering, and I know that / am not 
 alone in my suffering. 
 
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 World 
 
 J MAY walk in the wilderness, but / In the 
 am not alone ; I may be out on the Midst °f a 
 wide ocean, but / am not alone; I 
 may be a stranger in a strange land, but / 
 am not alone; I may be unknown in a great 
 city, but / am not alone, for I am in the 
 midst of a great spiritual world. 
 
 If the prophet could stand by my side, 
 as he did by the side of the young man of 
 old, and say: "O, Lord, open his eyes," 
 I would see the chariots of the Lord and 
 the Lord's own host of ministering spirits 
 all around me. 
 
 Jesus said that he had but to speak, and 
 twelve legions of angels would come to His 
 aid. He who loves His children will not 
 leave them alone, but will send, and does 
 send these minislering angels to care for 
 them. "For He shall give his angels charge 
 over thee to keep thee in all thy ways." 
 
 Do you see that little boy going down 
 the street ? He is not alone : a guardian 
 
"I AM NOT ALONE" 
 
 The angel is by his side. Do you see that young 
 
 Guardian man starting out into the great world to 
 Angel make a way for himself? He is not alone: 
 a guardian angel is by his side, and, if he 
 but listens to the voice, he will be kept in 
 all his ways. Do you see that young girl 
 on a journey without friends ? She is not 
 alone, but a guardian angel is by her side, 
 and she is safe if she but listens to the voice. 
 Do you see that man or that woman in the 
 thick of litVs battles and in the midst of its 
 cares and burdens ? They are not alone. 
 A guardian angel walks by their side. "Are 
 they not all ministering spirits ?" 
 
 So, beloved hearts, rejoice with a great 
 joy and peace, for all about you, unseen, 
 but yet so near that no word or ad: misses 
 their attention, are God's minislering spirits. 
 
 / am not alone. 
 
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"I AM NOT ALONE* 
 
 ORE beautiful and more precious 
 
 than any other thought to me, Presence 
 comes an absolute certainty of °* v°« 
 the presence of God. I go to the secret 
 place of prayer, and as I talk to my "Fa- 
 ther Who seeth in secret," there steals into 
 my soul a wonderful consciousness of the 
 presence of my Heavenly Father, nearer 
 than my own life, and I know that / am 
 not alone, for the presence of God is round 
 about me, and His love hovers over me. 
 
 Or when I am out in the tempest of 
 life. My boat is tossed by the waves, the 
 billows go over me, the darkness is round 
 about me and there comes out of the dark- 
 ness a voice saying : "It is I, be not afraid." 
 Then I know that He who stilled the tem- 
 pest on the Sea of Galilee is my Saviour, 
 and is right at hand to help me in the 
 darkest and most trying hour. His voice 
 speaks as clearly to my soul as it spake to 
 the disciples of old, and / am not alone. 
 
•I AM NOT ALONE" 
 
 am with Then I remember that He said : "Lo, I 
 
 You am w * tn y° u a l wa y» even un *o the end of 
 
 the world," and my faith grasps this blessed 
 truth that God's children are never alone. 
 I look up with a steadfast look and an un- 
 faltering faith, while my soul is filled with 
 peace and joy, and I say in the words of 
 Jesus, "/ am not alone. " 
 
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"I AM NOT ALONE" 
 
 "Fear not, I am with thee ; O be not dismayed ! 
 
 For I am thy God, and will still give thee aid ; 
 I'll strengthen thee, help thee, and cause thee to 
 stand, 
 
 Upheld by my righteous, omnipotent hand. 
 
 "When through the deep waters I call thee to go, 
 The rivers of sorrow shall not overflow ; 
 
 For I will be with thee, thy troubles to bless, 
 And sanctify to thee thy deepest distress. 
 
 "The soul that on Jesus hath leaned for repose 
 I will not, I will not desert to his foes ; 
 
 That soul, though all hell should endeavor to shake, 
 I'll never, no never, no never forsake. 
 
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 The Eternal God is thy Refuge, and 
 underneath are the Everlasting Arms. 
 
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