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Not Home Yet
No one paid any attention to them. They watched the fanfare that
accompanied the President's entourage, with passengers trying to catch
a
glimpse of the great man. As the ship moved across the ocean, the old
missionary said to his wife, "Something is wrong." "Why should we have
given our lives in faithful service for God in Africa all these many
years
and have no one care a thing about us? Here this man comes back from a
hunting trip and everybody makes much over him, but nobody gives two
hoots
about us."
"Dear, you shouldn't feel that way", his wife said. He replied "I can't
help it; it doesn't seem right."
When the ship docked in New York, a band was waiting to greet the
President. The mayor and other dignitaries were there. The papers were
full of the President's arrival. No one noticed this missionary couple.
They slipped off the ship and found a cheap flat on the East Side,
hoping
the next day to see what they could do to make a living in the city.
That night the man's spirit broke. He said to his wife, "I can't take
this; God is not treating us fairly". His wife replied, "Why don't you
go
in the bedroom and tell that to the Lord?"
A short time later he came out from the bedroom, but now his face was
completely different. His wife asked, "Dear, what happened?" "The Lord
settled it with me", he said. "I told Him how bitter I was that the
President should receive this tremendous homecoming, when no one met us
as we returned home. And when I finished, it seemed as though the Lord
put
His hand on my shoulder and simply said;
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