John Milne

Within a three year period Rev. John Milne was hit hard with tragedy. First, his first-born child, Jessie Marie, died at the age of eight months. Second, his wife died giving birth to a son named Robert John. The son died the following year. How did he respond? "I was full, and am empty. Yet I love my Lord. He has been unspeakably kind and overwhelmingly gracious. I cannot for a moment think the shadow of a thought that he has dealt hardly with me. Satan has sometimes tried to make me think it . . . but he does not get leave to make me draw any conclusion that can darken the wondrous loving-kindness of the Lord."