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stand fast forever. He will make her an eternal excellence, a joy of
many generations.
Study the forty-first chapter of Isaiah, and strive to understand it in
all its significance. God declares: “I will open rivers in high places,
and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness
a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water. I will plant in the
wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I
will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:
that they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together,
that the hand of the Lord hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel
hath created it.”
Isaiah 41:18-20
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He who has chosen Christ has joined himself to a power that no
array of human wisdom or strength can overthrow. “Fear thou not; for
I am with thee,” He declares; “be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I
will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with
the right hand of My righteousness.” “I the Lord thy God will hold thy
right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.”
Verses 10, 13
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“To whom then will ye liken Me, or shall I be equal? saith the
Holy One. Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created
these things, that bringeth out their host by number: He calleth them
all by names by the greatness of His might, for that He is strong in
power; not one faileth. Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O
Israel, My way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over
from my God? Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the
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everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth
not, neither is weary? there is no searching of His understanding. He
giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might He increaseth
strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men
shall utterly fall: but they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their
strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and
not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.”
Isaiah 40:25-31
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The light of truth is to shine to the ends of the earth. Greater
and still greater light is beaming with celestial brightness from the
Redeemer’s face upon His representatives, to be diffused through the
darkness of a benighted world. As laborers together with Him, let us