AND SO I LOVE—
When I was just a little child, I loved my mother so, I liked to touch what she had touched, And always tried to know The things she loved the best of a ll, So I could love them too. I made a secret list of them, Although she never knew. Israel’s behalf. We know of a surety that these events will come to pass when God’s eternal Son returns unto His own who once rejected Him. He will come with power and great glory, “ and his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives” (Zech. 14:4). This is His promise to Israel as a nation. Repeatedly in these verses which we have just read
And now that I am grown, I love My heavenly Father so, And like a little child again I humbly seek to know The things which are most dear to Him So I may love them too, And thus draw closer to His heart; And so I love— the Jew! —Martha Snell N icholson God says, “ I will.” These are not the vain promises of men; they are the sure, infallible promises of God Him self. If you are inclined to doubt the literal fulfillment of these words, my friend, remember that the condi tions of verse 19 were fulfilled to the very letter; for God assuredly did “ scatter” Israel. Now if these words were literally and actually fulfilled, by what law of in-
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