“The House of Israel”
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There are many from whom hope has departed. Bring back the
sunshine to them. Many have lost their courage. Speak to them words
of cheer. Pray for them. There are those who need the bread of life.
Read to them from the word of God. Upon many is a soul sickness
which no earthly balm can reach nor physician heal. Pray for these
souls. Bring them to Jesus. Tell them that there is a balm in Gilead
and a Physician there.
Light is a blessing, a universal blessing, pouring forth its treasures
on a world unthankful, unholy, demoralized. So it is with the light
of the Sun of Righteousness. The whole earth, wrapped as it is in
the darkness of sin and sorrow and pain, is to be lighted with the
knowledge of God’s love. From no sect, rank, or class of people is the
light shining from heaven’s throne to be excluded.
The message of hope and mercy is to be carried to the ends of the
earth. Whosoever will, may reach forth and take hold of God’s strength
and make peace with Him, and he shall make peace. No longer are
the heathen to be wrapped in midnight darkness. The gloom is to
disappear before the bright beams of the Sun of Righteousness.
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Christ has made every provision that His church shall be a trans-
formed body, illumined with the Light of the world, possessing the
glory of Immanuel. It is His purpose that every Christian shall be
surrounded with a spiritual atmosphere of light and peace. He desires
that we shall reveal His own joy in our lives.
“Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is
risen upon thee.”
Isaiah 60:1
. Christ is coming with power and great
glory. He is coming with His own glory and with the glory of the
Father. And the holy angels will attend Him on His way. While all the
world is plunged in darkness, there will be light in every dwelling of
the saints. They will catch the first light of His second appearing. The
unsullied light will shine from His splendor, and Christ the Redeemer
will be admired by all who have served Him. While the wicked flee,
Christ’s followers will rejoice in His presence.
Then it is that the redeemed from among men will receive their
promised inheritance. Thus God’s purpose for Israel will meet with
literal fulfillment. That which God purposes, man is powerless to
disannul. Even amid the working of evil, God’s purposes have been
moving steadily forward to their accomplishment. It was thus with the