Often men are not troubled much about the loss of hope, but even these know what it is to have a dark void where there should be a light shining more and more. One of the hardest tasks of the Hebrew prophets was that of renewing in the people the impulses of hope; and so this representative messenger of God proclaims, “Remember not the former things,” old things may pass away, all things may become new. II. This new thing is compared with the opening of a path in the wilderness, and the supply of