You are baptised
men, knowing that blessed name of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, which
Nebuchadnezzar only saw dimly, and afar off. Jesus Christ, the Word
of God, is striving with your hearts, giving to them whatsoever light
and life they have. You have been taught from childhood to look up
to Him as your King and Deliverer; to His Father as your Father, to
His Holy Spirit as your Inspirer. Take heed how you listen to His
voice within your hearts. Take heed how you learn God's lessons; for
God is surely educating you, and teaching you far more than He taught
the king of Babylon in old time. As you learn or despise these
lessons of God's, will be your happiness or your misery now and for
ever. Unto the king of Babylon little was given, and of him was
little required. To you and me much has been given; of you and me
will much be required.
XXIX--JEREMIAH'S CALLING
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto David a
righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall
execute judgment and justice in the earth.--JEREMIAH xxiii. 5.
At the time when Jeremiah the prophet spoke those words to the Jews,
nothing seemed more unlikely than that they would ever come true.
The whole Jewish nation was falling to pieces from its own sins.
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