8. Come, behold the works of the Lord. The joyful citizens of Jerusalem are invited to view the remains of
their enemies. It were well if we also were quick to perceive his hand in the
battles of his church. Whenever we read history it should be with this verse
sounding in our ears. We should read the newspaper in the same spirit. What desolations he hath made in the earth. The destroyers he destroys, the
desolators he desolates. How forcible is the verse at this date! The ruined
cities of Assyria, Babylon, Petra, Bashan, Canaan, in tables of stone record
the doings of the Lord. In every place where his cause and crown have been
disregarded ruin has surely followed; sin has been a blight on nations.
Dismantled castles and ruined abbeys in our own land stand as memorials of the
Lord’s victories over oppression and superstition.
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