Henry W. Frost

Nothing so pleases God in connection with our prayer as our praise, and nothing so blesses the man who prays as the praise he offers.  I got a great blessing once in China in this connection.  I had received  bad and sad news from home, and deep shadows had covered my soul.  I prayed, but the darkness did not vanish.  I summoned myself to endure, but the darkness only deepened.  Just then I went to an island station and saw on the wall of the mission home these words: “Try Thanksgiving.”  I did, and in a moment every shadow was gone, not to return. Yes, the psalmist was right: “It is a good to give thanks unto the Lord.”  – Henry W. Frost, China Inland Mission