shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee."[1] Are you struggling against the fierce winds of adversity? Listen to the cheering voice of your Redeemer and lift up your hearts.—"The very hairs of your head," says he, "are all numbered."[2] There is no such thing as chance in the history of God's people. Every event of their life, however afflictive in its character, is a link in that golden chain, which is to raise them progressively, from earth to heaven. Are you bowed down with the weight of years and their increasing infirmities? Hope in God and rejoice, that the time is so near at hand, when angels at the gate of Paradise, shall hail you as an immortal born; born "to an inheritance, incorruptible, undefiled and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time."[3]
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the god of hope.
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