Thinking of the fullness and duration of this wonderful life, W. B.
Hinson, a great preacher of a past generation, spoke from his own
experience just before he died. He said, "I remember a year ago when a
doctor told me, 'You have an illness from which you won't recover.' I
walked out to where I live 5 miles from Portland, Oregon, and I looked
across at that mountain that I love. I looked at the river in which I
rejoice, and I looked at the stately trees that are always God's own
poetry to my soul. Then in the evening I looked up into the great sky
where God was lighting His lamps, and I said, ' I may not see you many
more times, but Mountain, I shall be alive when you are gone; and River,
I shall be alive when you cease running toward the sea; and Stars, I
shall be alive when you have fallen from your sockets in the great down
pulling of the material universe!'"
W.B. Hinson
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