A Present to His Royal Highness - The Prince of Wales — Page 58
58 vituperation with which they overflowed. These things, however, did not interfere with him and he went on working as God commanded him and ever prayed to Him humbly to open the eyes of mankind so that they might look upon His face and be not shut out from His palace for their enmity of him. He preached during the day and prayed during the night, beseeching God to have mercy on mankind and to reveal His face unto them. Thus day followed day and week followed week and month followed month and he went on praying and preaching and suffered not a day to pass without calling men to God. Those who observed him at work sometimes grew impatient and those who had the honour of assisting him in his work, though they did so only in turns, sometimes felt weary and were spent, but in spite of his old age and weak health, he neither tired nor grew weary and went about the Lord’s work ever cheerful and happy. He heeded not the opposition which was offered to him nor the abuse which was heaped upon him, and returned a stern answer only when he was afraid that truth would suffer without it and even then his object always was to correct and not to inflict pain. When his enemies, proud in their strength, imagined that they would grind him to powder, the Mighty Lord, Who had sent him to require His rights of men, gave him repeated assurances of His favour and support and comforted him, so that he was neither afraid nor daunted, and with ever increasing emphasis, he put forth the promises which God had made him, some of which were:— “God will maintain thy name in honour till the world