04. Holy Ground

Holy Ground In the Tabernacle of Moses there was one room so sacred that only one man of all the thou- sands of Israel was ever permitted to enter it; and he on one day only of all the three hundred and sixty-five days of the year. That room was the Holy of Holies. The place where John Hyde met God was holy ground. The scenes of his life are too sacred for common eyes. I shrink from placing them before the public. But when I remember Jacob at the Brook, Elijah on Carmel, Paul in his agony for Israel, and especially the Dear Man in the Garden, then I am impressed by the Spirit of God that the experiences of this Man of God should be published for the learning and admonition (God grant) of thousands. So we take our stand near the prayer closet of John Hyde, and are permitted to hear the sighing and the groaning, and to see the tears coursing down his dear face, to see his frame weakened by foodless days and sleepless nights, shaken with sobs as he pleads, "O God, give me souls or I die!"