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'rHE bIPORTANCE OF THE TRUTH
ones is that of our Lord's Coming again. There is no other truth that has such comfort in it for intelligent believers when they are called upon to pass through deep sorrow as that of the Return of the Lord and what it involves for us and for those who have fallen asleep. Time and again in writing to those who have lost for a time those whom they love, I have obeyed God's commandment and used the truth of our Lord's Return to com fort them, and many have told me afterwards how full of comfort this truth has proven when everything else had failed. In the Old '1 1 estament also we find God through His ser vant Isaiah comforting Israel in the time of their misery and desolation with the thought of the Corning of the Lord: ''Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. 0 thou that tellest good tidings to Zion, get thee up on a high mountain; 0 thou that tellest good tidings to Jerusalem, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold, your God I Behold, his reward is with him and his recom pense before him" (Is. 40 :1, 9, 10). Time and again in the New Testament the Coming Again of our Lord Jesus Christ and the events connected therewith are held up as
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