always
pursued us in this life, that we might be saved and enjoy the rewards of
His house forever. May God give us all that child-like trust in our
heavenly Master which the sheep display toward their shepherd; may He
grant us that vivid constant faith of the Saints which will enable us to
see in every event of life, in adversity as well as in prosperity, in our
pains as well as in our joys, the designs of a loving Father who is ever
wishing and trying to lead His children to His home of eternal delights.
FOOTNOTES
1 Isa. xl. 11.
2 Jer. xxiii. 4, 5.
3 Ezech. xxxiv. 11, 12, 23.
4 Phil. ii. 6, 7.
5 Jno. x. 30, 38; xii. 45.
6 Luke xii. 49.
7 Gen. iii. 19.
8 Lam. i. 12.
9 Ps. cxliv. 9.
10 Isa. liii. 4.
11 Rom. viii. 17.
12 2 Cor. iv. 17.
13 Matt. v. 48.
14 Jno. xv. 5.
15 Luke xxiii. 34.
16 Prov. viii. 31.
17 Jno. xv. 15.
18 Ps. viii. 5.
19 Prov. xxiii. 26.
20 Matt. xi. 28.
21 Jno. vi. 52, 55.
22 Jno. xvi. 2.
23 Ezech. xviii. 23; xxxiii. 11; 2 Pet. iii. 9.
24 Ps. 102. 14.
25 Luke xv. 4, 7.
26 Luke i. 31.
27 Matt. xvi. 18.
28 Luke x. 17.
29 Matt. xviii. 17.
30 Matt. xxiv. 35.
31 Matt. xxiv. 24.
32 2 Cor. xi. 26.
33 2 Cor. xi. 13.
34 Matt. xxviii. 20.
35 Ps. cxiii. 13, 14.
36 Jude 10.
37 Matt. x. 17, 22-26.
38 Mich. vii. 6; Matt. x. 36.
39 Bk. i. 11. 5.
40 Matt. xvi. 24.
41 Ps. xvii. 4, 5.
42 Luke xii. 34.
43 1 Jno. iv. 16, 18.
44 Ps. xxvi. 1, 2.
45 Matt. x. 28.
46 Wis. iii. 3.
47 Ps. xxxiii. 20.
48 Ps. xiii. 3.
49 Jno. x. 10.
50 2 Tim. ii. 5.
51 Luke ix. 23.
52 Jno. xii. 34.
53 Job vii. 1; Job xiv. 2.
54 Isa. xl. 6, 7.
55 Heb. xi. 10.
56 Wis. v. 6-9.
57 Rom. viii. 16, 17.
58 1 Peter iv. 13.
59 Wis. iii. 4, 6.
60 Luke xiv.
61 1 Cor. i. 25.
62 Luke xiv. 26.
63 Philip iii. 7, 8.
64 Confess. ix. 1.
65 Ps. xxxiii. 9; lxxxii. 2.
66 Job xiii. 15.
67 Ps. xc. 11.
68 Philip iv. 7.
69 Philip iv. 13.
70 Rom. viii. 33-39.
71 Rom. ix. 16.
72 Eccl. ix. 1, 2.
73 Philip, ii. 12.
74 1 Cor. ix. 27.
75 Jno. xvii. 11-15.
76 Ps. xvi. 5.
77 Isa. xlii. 3.
78 Ps. cii. 13, 14.
79 Apoc. xxi.,
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