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Lord, that He might be glorified.” The psalmist writes, “He healeth
the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.” Though He is the
restorer of fallen humanity, yet “He telleth the number of the stars; He
calleth them all by their names. Great is our Lord, and of great power:
His understanding is infinite. The Lord lifteth up the meek: He casteth
the wicked down to the ground. Sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving;
sing praise upon the harp unto our God.... The Lord taketh pleasure in
them that fear Him, in those that hope in His mercy. Praise the Lord,
O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion.”
How precious are the lessons of this psalm. We might well devote
study to the last four psalms of David. The words also of the prophet
are very precious: “Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which
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cometh from the rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters
that come from another place be forsaken? Because my people hath
forgotten Me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused
them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths,
in a way not cast up.” “Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that
trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth
from the Lord. For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall
not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the
wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited. Blessed is the man that
trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is. For he shall be as
a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the
river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green;
and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from
yielding fruit.”—
Special Testimonies On Education, April 22, 1895
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