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Why not awake the voice of our spiritual songs in the travels of our
pilgrimage? Why not come back to our simplicity and life of fervor?
The reason why we are not more joyful is that we have lost our first
love. Let us then be zealous and repent, lest the candlestick be moved
out of its place.
The temple of God is opened in heaven, and the threshold is flushed
with the glory which is for every church that will love God and keep
His commandments. We need to study, to meditate, and to pray. Then
we shall have spiritual eyesight to discern the inner courts of the ce-
lestial temple. We shall catch the themes of song and thanksgiving of
the heavenly choir round about the throne. When Zion shall arise and
shine, her light will be most penetrating, and precious songs of praise
and thanksgiving will be heard in the assemblies of the saints. Mur-
muring and complaining over little disappointments and difficulties
will cease. As we apply the golden eyesalve we shall see the glories
beyond. Faith will cut through the heavy shadow of Satan, and we
shall see our Advocate offering up the incense of His own merits in
our behalf. When we see this as it is, as the Lord desires us to see it,
we shall be filled with a sense of the immensity and diversity of the
love of God.
God teaches that we should assemble in His house to cultivate the
attributes of perfect love. This will fit the dwellers of earth for the
mansions that Christ has gone to prepare for all who love Him. There
they will assemble in the sanctuary from Sabbath to Sabbath, from
one new moon to another, to unite in loftiest strains of song, in praise
and thanksgiving to Him who sits upon the throne, and to the Lamb
for ever and ever.
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