Weakness hurries, rages, shouts, for it has need to do so. Strength moves with its own deliberate serenity and effects its purpose. You grow uneasy because near two thousand years have passed since His ascension, and Jesus has not yet come; but you do not know what had to be arranged for, and how far the lapse of time was absolutely necessary for the Lord’s design. Those are no little matters which have filled up the great pause; the intervening centuries have teemed with wonders. Live upon Christ,
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