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Jehovah is my strength and my shield; my heart hath trusted in Him, and I am helped: therefore my Theard greatly. If .Tejoictthy mad with my song with Hàn – WACAS

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HARITY, which by virtue of its capacity to endure, needs suffering to call forth its full glory. . . . will soothe your sorrows, lighten your burdens, ease your sufferings and stay your tears. It will nerve your heart in time; and light your pathway in death. What more invincible forces could champion the claims of the soul than these three regiments that march in the army of love: -Faith, Hope and Charity."-From Love is All.

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Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God. Eph. 5: 2.

I bore with thee, long weary days and nights,
Through many pangs of heart, through many fears,
I bore with thee thy hardness, coldness, slights
For three and thirty years.

Who else had dared for thee what I have dared?
I plunged the depths, most deep, from bliss above
I, not My flesh, I, not My spirit spared,

Give thou Me, love for love.

-Christina Georgiana Rossetti.

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'T was love that made the Son of God plunge downward from the bosom of the Father to be the world's Redeemer. It was love that made him the child of the manger, the man of sorrows, the crucified Son of man. This love is part of the science of salvation, the science of heaven, the science of the infinite God. It is unique love. There is nothing like it in all the universe of God. Like God himself, his love is without end, without measure, and without limit. Was love ever like thine, thou Christ of God? What pain and woe that love brought to thy pure heart, but it failed not! Like thine own self it changes not, but it is the same yesterday, to-day, and forever. Oh! Blessed One, let that love enfold our being, let it transform our lives, let it make us into thine own image!

Thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for Thou hast cast all my sins behind Thy back. The living, the living he shall praise Thee as I do this day. Amen. Is. 38: 17, 19.

We know that, if He shall be manifested, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him even as He is. I John 3: 2.

For though from out our bourn of time and place

The flood may bear me far,

I hope to see my Pilot face to face,

When I have crossed the bar.

-Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

E are to be like Christ, because we shall see him as he is; and it is also true that we shall see him as he is because we shall be like him. These two truths cannot be separated. This glory would then include the whole sweep of his eternal perfections and character. We shall see his creative glory, his providential glory, and most of all, his redeeming glory. This latter is the grandest thought of heaven. To see this glory, angels had a strong desire. We already know something of its mystery and majesty; already some drops of the divine love have come into our hearts, but in heaven we shall bathe in an ocean of love. There we shall know something of the preciousness of the blood that has cleansed us; there we shall know the excellence of the righteousness whose robes we wear; there we shall get a glimpse of the breadth, height, and depth of that love which passeth knowledge. May that beatific vision be ours!

One thing have I asked of Jehovah, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of Jehovah, and to inquire in His temple. Amen. Ps. 27: 4.