May 22

Brother Andrew wrote me:

I traveled in all the Communist countries. One day I stood in Moscow’s Red Square, watching tens of thousands soldiers  marching, singing and shouting, “We are going to conquer the world.”

I stood there alone, and would have been scared if I had not known Scripture. I remembered “Greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.” That was a good feeling—one man more than the whole Red Army.

Fear not, for I am with you, be not dismayed for I Am your God; I will strengthen you. I will help you. I will uphold you with my victorious right hand.

Isaiah 41:10

Hold Thou my hand, so weak I am and helpless

I dare not take one step without Thine aid

Hold Thou my hand, for then, O loving Saviour

No dread of ill shall make my soul afraid

—Fanny Crosby