One such person is Lela McConnell, the founder of the Kentucky Mountain Holiness Association. She writes: \u201cLoneliness is the Christian worker\u2019s worst enemy. It is the open door to Satan\u2019s most vicious attacks. Temptation that make little or no appeal under normal conditions become almost irresistible it times of solitude. . . No one to talk to, no one to pray with\u2014I mean, no one who sympathizes and understands. It was just such an experience that caused me. . . to express my feelings in the following lines:<\/p>\n
\u2018Lonely! lonely! lonely!
\nIn the heart of the mighty hills
\nAnd I sigh for the dear, home faces
\nAnd fancy a thousand ills.<\/p>\n
\u2018A dog! A friend! A loved one!
\nOr anything that has life;
\nBut I wait alone for the answer
\nAnd alone I face the strife.<\/p>\n
\u2018The work, the care, the struggle,
\nI greet with a thankful heart;
\nBut to be alone in the mountain\u2014
\nThat is the hardest part.<\/p>\n
\u2018Lonely! Lonely! Lonely!
\nIn the light of the waning moon;
\nDear God in Heaven have mercy
\nAnd send a friend to me soon!\u2019\u201d
\n\u2014Used by permission of K.M.H.A. (Loneliness, p.p. 15-16.)<\/p>\n
Emma Booth, daughter of William and Catherine, founders of the Salvation Army, also experienced loneliness as she worked for Christ, not in the mountains, but in the heart of busy London. And then she thought of Christ and was comforted. \u201cI was thinking last night,\u201d she writes, \u201cit was not the thorn or the spear which made Calvary hardest to bear. It must have been the keen sense of loneliness that made the cup the bitterest. And yet, we know He was not alone.\u201d<\/p>\n
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