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Martha Snell Nicholson.
Martha Snell Nicholson has blessed many by her devotional poems.She was in invalid for three and a half decades and wrote many of her poems from her bed. In Illness, the first book in the “Call Back Series,” Martha calls back to us through her pain, encouraging us that we are never alone in our sufferings, no matter how severe they may be.


Crippling arthritis, threatened cancer, TB, Parkinson’s disease, seven major surgeries and many minor ones—Martha experienced all this and more and yet she could write:
“Each day must be lived as though it were to be my last, and there is so much to be done, to purify myself, and to set my house in order. I am on tiptoe with expectancy. There are no more gray days for they are all touched with color. No more dark days for the radiance of His coming is on the horizon—no more dull days with glory just around the corner—and no more lonely days, with His footsteps ever coming nearer, and the thought that soon, soon I shall see His blessed face, and be forever through with pain and tears!”
—Used by permission of Wesleyan Advocate.

The Hand which flung the stars through space
Holds fast my hand.
My life is molded by the One
Who shaped the land.
The Mind which planned the march of suns
Can understand
The petty trials of my day;
And surely He
Who hollowed out the cup that holds
The mighty sea,
And keeps the waves in check, can give
Tranquility
In my small storms. Shall not the One
Who holds in place
The Milky Way, keep me each day
And by His grace
Present me perfect, faultless there
Before His face.
—Martha Snell Nicholson. (Illness, p. 32)

Illness from which these quotations are taken is written by Edwin and Lillian Harvey and published by Harvey Christian Publishers. It is now available in their Online Christian Bookstore.

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