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with anxiety, and thirsts after certainty.

filled

of one

who

[Oct.

In the heart

so apprehended of the Lord, even though he be

is

a plain day-laborer, the sacred things of the Almighty have

found a lodging, and therefore in the depths of

powers of

waged

flict is

him

;

except

and

as of giant-forces in his breast,

he sees no

He who

sets

way

of escape

and that oppresses

he faints beneath

;

its

tension,

compassionate takes compassion on him,

is

him up upon

the

Word, does

stands on that

his soul the

Thus a con-

antagonize those sacred things.

hell

Rock

Only when he

Word.

of the

the oil of gladness drip in his soul

instead of mourning, and the garments of praise begin to shine forth in place of the spirit of heaviness,

forth in singing the praises of

bonds

;

also

man, who

Him who

and the man breaks

has set him free from

from those oppressing bonds of dependency upon

at best is

but a creature of dust.

peace, an unshakable

faith,

and a

full

For

to obtain real

development of powers,

our soul must, in the depth of depths and forsaken of

To draw

depend on God Almighty alone. mediately from God's ly,

this renders

own

all

one's being im-

hand, consciously and continuous-

one invincible, enables one to become heroic,

and makes us surpass ourselves.

This was the secret of the

power by which Calvinism once astonished the world. forms character,

men,

steels

That

the will with energy, and sets man,

the citizen, the confessor of Jesus, truly free.

But how does the Lord impart

this

assurance, with and

without the intervention of man, to the numbers of his

and through them

to the

church?

We

tion sharply in the face, for there are

elect,

should look this ques-

many

reasons, because

of which the Scripture, such as the churches and especially the laity have tainty.

In the

it

in these days, in itself falls short of this cer-

first place,

of the books of the

as far as

we know,

Holy Scripture have been

all

the autographa

lost,

and we have

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