Resting Place for the Soul

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Years ago there came to the late Canon Hoare, a rich man, then in his old age, to arrange with him about his burial place, and after they had gone carefully over the churchyard, and had chosen the spot where he was to lie, Canon Hoare turned to him and said, “You have chosen a resting place for your body, but have you yet found a resting place for your soul?” Turning around and looking him full in the face, the old man answered: “You are the first clergyman who ever asked me that question.” He went with Canon Hoare into his study, and, to make a long story short, he gave his heart to Christ, and found his resting place, and in Canon Hoare’s study to the day of his death hung a well-known picture representing the saving of a life from a wreck. It was the gift of the grateful man, who had found a resting place not only for his body but for his soul. Ask yourself the question now, before you turn to another page: “Have I found a resting place for my soul?”

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