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Next on in touch, confidence in the midst of distress.

The year was 1944 and I was in the eighth grade.

We were in a war and we were fighting in the Pacific and also in Europe.

It was a time of great distress and turmoil in this country.

Many things were rationed, food and some clothes and automobiles and tires and all those kind of things.

It was a time of great distress because many American young men were dying on foreign

shores.

It was a time of great stress because people did not know what was

going to happen because of all the things we were hearing about the war and how it was going

on and oftentimes people would sit in the evening and listen to the news while they were eating dinner and it was a troublesome time because oftentimes they'd give reports of where this particular division was and what was going on in the fighting. One morning my social studies

teacher walked into class and laid her books down and picked up a Bible and she said we're going to do something different

this morning and she began to read and I remember thinking she's about to

cry and then she told us that listening to And I remember thinking she's about to cry.

And then she told us that listening the night before,

she'd heard the news, and her husband

was in a particular division which they talked about.

They went a very bloody battle battle and she was afraid.

And you know I don't remember my teacher's name, but I have never forgotten that song.

And how many times I've turned to it when I was going through

some difficulty or some fearful time, I remembered Psalm 46. So I want you to turn to

it if you will because this is a wonderful

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