grow in God’s fields, and go not to the conservatory of learning and art to gather your fine posy. God will bless his own word; for it is his word which runneth very swiftly. Yet, note again, according to the text God’s word is most effectual. This is the meaning of the phrase, it “runneth very swiftly.” None can resist it; for God is in it. It is God’s will, and when God wills it, what matters it if all creation wills the contrary? “There are many devices in a man’s heart; nevertheless the counsel