7. I keep a solitary vigil as the lone sentry of my nation; my fellows are
too selfish, too careless to care for the beloved land. The psalmist compared
himself to a bird when it has lost its mate or its young, or is for some other
reason made to mope alone in a solitary place. Probably he did not refer to the
cheerful sparrow of our own land, but if he did, the illustration would not be
out of place, for the sparrow is happy in company, and if it were alone, the
sole one of its species in the neighborhood, there can be little doubt that it
would become very miserable. He who has felt himself to be so weak and
inconsiderable as to have no more power over his times than a sparrow over a
city has also, when bowed down with despondency concerning the evils of the
age, sat himself down in utter wretchedness to lament the ills which he could
not heal. Christians of an earnest, watchful kind often find themselves among
those who have no sympathy with them; even in the church they look in vain for
kindred spirits.
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