Beloved Brethren: — Welcome home!  To your home in my heart!  Welcome to Pleasant View, but not to varying views.

I would present a gift to you to-day, only that this gift is already yours.  God hath given it to all mankind.  It is His coin, His currency; it has His image and superscription.  This gift is a passage of Scripture; it is my sacred motto, and it reads thus: — "Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.  Delight thyself also in the Lord; and He shall give thee the desires of thine heart.  Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in Him; and He shall bring it to pass.  And He shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday."     
 
Beloved, some of you have come long distances to kneel with us in sacred silence in blest communion — unity of faith, understanding, prayer, and praise — and to return in joy, bearing your sheaves with you.  In parting I repeat to these dear members of my church: Trust in Truth, and have no other trusts.     
 
To-day is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah:  "And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away."

June, 1903