Praise Our King

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Short Summary
The devotional emphasizes that God’s statutes and promises inspire songs of praise and joy even amid life’s trials, portraying believers as pilgrims journeying toward a heavenly rest. It highlights the importance of faith, patience, and daily spiritual nourishment through God’s word to sustain joy and perseverance. Despite hardships, intimate fellowship with God brings comfort and assurance that His love and righteousness will ultimately prevail.

Long Summary
Detailed Summary of the Devotional: “Songs in the House of My Pilgrimage”

Introduction and Theme:
– The devotional opens with warm greetings from the North Seattle Bible Students ecclesia and introduces the theme “Songs in the House of My Pilgrimage,” linking it to Psalm 119:54:
*”Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.”*
– The focus is on Christian pilgrimage—living as strangers and pilgrims on earth—and how God’s statutes inspire songs of praise amid this journey.

Reflection on God’s Creation:
– A male common chaffinch bird is shown as a symbol of praise, looking upward while singing, representing how believers should lift their hearts in praise to God at all times.
– Hymns and reprint readings are used to deepen appreciation for God’s goodness and law as the foundation of joyful pilgrimage.

Pilgrimage as a Spiritual Journey:
– God’s people, both in the Jewish and Gospel dispensations, are described as pilgrims and strangers in an “evil world,” longing for the “better country” ruled by God’s kingdom of love and righteousness.
– They anticipate the coming kingdom that will set right all wrongs and bring everlasting righteousness.

Songs and Joy Amid Trials:
– Hymn 117 (“I’m a pilgrim and I’m a stranger”) expresses the pilgrim’s longing to reach the heavenly city, enduring trials with hope.
– The devotional explains that throughout the pilgrimage, believers stand before the Lord’s judgment, tested on their love for righteousness and their willingness to sacrifice.
– Hymn 165 (“Love Divine”) references God’s promise from Scripture:
*”He giveth songs in the night, and he hath put a new song into my mouth.”*
– Despite imperfections and burdens, believers are to maintain joy and thanksgiving, supported by Jesus’ words:
*”Your joy no man taketh from you… Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you… Let not your heart be troubled.”* (John 16:22-33 implied)

Joy Beyond Circumstances:
– Hymn 179 (“Endless Song”) celebrates the unshakeable joy and praise that come from knowing Christ as Lord, even amid darkness and storms, because eternal life and victory are assured.
– The devotional emphasizes that this joy is a supernatural gift that sustains believers through trials until the glorious Millennium dawns.

Pilgrim’s Struggle and Hope:
– Hymn 88 (“Here is No Rest”) expresses the pilgrim’s recognition of earthly trials, loneliness, and loss, yet affirms hope in the coming rest promised by God.
– The apostle Paul’s groaning for the adoption of the redeemed body (Romans 8:23) is highlighted, illustrating the believer’s longing for the resurrection and perfect life beyond earth.

The Importance of Daily Spiritual Nourishment:
– From reprint 5279, the devotional compares spiritual sustenance to manna in the wilderness, reminding believers that Jesus is the “true bread” (John 6:32-35).
– Just as Israelites gathered manna daily, Christians must daily feed on the Word and Christ’s merit to grow strong and persevere in their pilgrimage.
– The necessity of personal effort in spiritual growth is stressed: faithfulness, cultivation, and applying God’s truth are essential.

Hymns and Prayers for Service and Strength:
– Hymn 53 (“Forever with the Lord”) and hymn 107 (“O Use Me, Lord”) are included, expressing desires for faithful service, guidance, and being filled with God’s love to help others and glorify Him.

Cultivating Joy Through the Heart’s Affections:
– Sister Amanda Biddle reads on how joy depends largely on the condition of the heart and its affections.
– If believers focus on earthly things (the lust of the flesh, pride of life), the joy of the new mind is quenched.
– Conversely, overcoming worldliness and seeking fellowship with God increases joy and peace that no one can take away.

Patient Endurance and Divine Consolation in Trials:
– From reprint 5802 (“The Ministry of Sorrow”), the devotional encourages trust in God’s timing, quoting Psalm 37:5-6:
*”Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass… He shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.”*
– Trials and fiery tests are not strange but part of spiritual growth; God’s comforting presence sustains believers even in deepest sorrow.
– The “divine consolation” is described as a healing balm reserved for those who faithfully contend for truth amid hardship.

Strength in Weakness and God’s Understanding:
– Believers are reminded that their weakness does not separate them from God’s strength (2 Corinthians 12:9).
– God “knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust” (Psalm 103:14), and provides strength to continue faithfully.

The Example of Job:
– Job’s story illustrates patient endurance through severe trials—loss of property, children, health, and friends’ misunderstanding—yet unwavering faith:
*”The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.”* (Job 1:21)
– Job’s integrity, despite suffering, is upheld by God and rewarded abundantly, serving as a type of humanity’s trials and ultimate restoration.

Intimate Fellowship with God:
– True joy arises from intimate relationship and trust in God, recognizing His guiding hand amid life’s storms.
– The devotional highlights a heartfelt commitment:
*”I’d rather walk in the dark with God than go alone in the light.”*
– Such believers commit their ways fully to God, assured that no good thing will be withheld (Psalm 84:11).

Closing Encouragement:
– Even as pilgrims and strangers in a hostile world, believers are nourished spiritually and temporally.
– The promises of God remain faithful across generations, providing unending grace and joy to those who trust Him.
– The devotional closes with the assurance that the songs of praise and joy in the house of pilgrimage will continue until the glorious heavenly home is reached.

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Key Bible Verses Referenced or Alluded To:
– Psalm 119:54 — “Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.”
– Psalm 77:6 — “Let me remember my song in the night: let me meditate in my heart.”
– John 14:27 — “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you…”
– Romans 8:23 — “Waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.”
– Psalm 37:5-6 — “Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass…”
– 2 Corinthians 12:9 — “My strength is made perfect in weakness.”
– Psalm 103:14 — “He knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.”
– Job 1:21 — “The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.”
– Psalm 84:11 — “No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.”

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This devotional richly intertwines Scripture, hymns, and reflections to encourage believers in their spiritual pilgrimage, emphasizing joy through trials, daily nourishment in God’s word, and steadfast faith in God’s loving providence.

Transcript

Say good afternoon, dear friends. Before I get started, I’d like to bring the warm Christian love of the North Seattle Bible Students ecclesia to the convention as was. Oh, I’m doing my own announcement. Yeah. The devotional service is entitled Songs in the House of My Pilgrimage.

Songs in the House of My Pilgrimage. Our hope is that this will tie in well with the convention theme text.

This is From Psalm chapter 119, verse 54. Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my Pilgrimage. This devotional will mainly consist of reprint readings and hymns.

The bird pictured here is a male common chaffinch. Let’s watch this very common bird for a minute to bring before our minds just how great our God is and his creation. Not sure how well this will work on Zoom, but we’ll give it a try.

Did you notice how this bird looks upward as it sings? God’s statutes are to be our praise towards Him. We are to sing his praises at every opportunity. Our lives are to be a song of praise and thanksgiving to Him. The words of our hymns are very beautiful.

Let us consider them as we sing during this hour to our Lord’s goodness. We will be reading from reprint 2230 entitled Songs in the House of Our Pilgrimage. God’s people during the Jewish dispensation as well as during the Gospel dispensation are spoken of as pilgrims and strangers in the present evil world. They are such because they have heard of a better country whose ruler is God and whose law is love. Having obtained a glimpse of the perfection of divine character with its absoluteness of justice and love, it has become their ideal.

And they have heard the voice of him that speaketh from heaven instructing them that sin and evil shall not always prevail, but that the God of heaven by and by shall set up his kingdom, which will renovate and bless the world of mankind and bring in everlasting righteousness. Hence it is that they fill themselves and are portrayed in the Scriptures as being pilgrims and strangers who seek the fair clime of the coming age.

Let us sing hymn 1:17. I’m a pilgrim I’m a pilgrim and I’m a stranger I can tarry I can tarry Bottom mind, do not detain me For I am coming to wear my sp forever for me I’m a builder and I’m a stranger I can’t carry, I can’t carry but alive you will some things forever shining oh, my lonely heart My loving heart is dead to take this cross I’m a pilgrim and I’m a stranger I can tarry, I can tarry little more Open city through which I carry my Redeemer My Redeemer is no light, there is no sorrow and I must re enter I can tarry, I can tarry upon continuing in reprint 22:30 all through this pilgrimage we are standing at the bar of our Lord’s judgment. He is testing us, proving us to see whether or not we love him and the things which make for righteousness and peace, and if so, how much we are willing to sacrifice for righteousness sake. He marks the degree of our love by the measure of our self denials and self sacrifices for his sake, the truth’s sake hymn 165 love divine it is written, he giveth songs in the night, and he hath put a new song into my mouth. It causes us no surprise to know that the saints will be joyful in glory, and sing aloud with the high praises of God in their mouths, when it shall be given to them to execute the judgments written.

But it may strike some as peculiar that the present conditions of God’s people, the condition of imperfection and physical frailty, in which we groan and are burdened, should be a condition in which songs and thanksgiving and and joy should prevail with us. Nevertheless, this is the divine will, as it is the divine statement respecting all who are truly overcomers. They are all to be joyful in the house of their pilgrimage. Respecting this joy Our Lord declares your joy. No man taketh from you.

Peace, I live with you, leave with you my peace. I give unto you not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

Hymn number 179 endless song my life goes on in endless song. Above this lamentation I catch the sweet night part of him that is a new creation.

You are the true temptest light. I hear the music ring it finds an ankle in my soul. How can I keep from singing?

What are my joys and comfort I shame?

What though the darkness gather round? Songs in the night begin no storm can shake My angels come, rise to the raptures gleaming. Since Christ is Lord of him and dead, how can my keep from staining?

I lift mine eyes, the cloud bursting, I see the blue of the wind, and they find in this pathway smooth, since first I know to love it the place of Christ may fresh my heart A fountain ever springing all things are mine, since I am his, how can I keep from swinging foreign?

So then, while there is a measure of groaning, because of some burdens on the part of those who have attained to the new life. There are also blessed joys which the world cannot give, neither take away, and these are the source and cause of the unceasing joy and songs in the night before the glorious dawn of the new millennial age. These songs are inspired by the joys granted us in the house of our pilgrimage while we are actually absent from our home.

Psalm 77:6 Let me remember my song in the night Let me meditate in my heart.

Hymn 88 here is no rest Here are the earth as a stranger at home Here is no rest Here is no no rest here as a pilgrim I wonder alone. Yet I am blessed, I am blessed For I look forward to that glorious day when sin and sorrow will vanish away way my heart doth leave while I hear Jesus name. There there is rest there is rest here fierce temptations be set me around Here is now rest, no rest here I am grieved while my h m Yet I am blessed, I am bless Let them revive me and scoff at my name Laugh at my weeping endeavor to shame I will go forward, for this is my theme. There there is rest, There is rest.

Here are afflictions and trials severe. Here is no rest Here is no rest Here I must part with the friends I hold dear. Yet I am blessed, I am blessed. Sweet is the promise I read in his word. Blessed are they who have died in the Lord they will be called to receive their reward.

Then we shall rest, we shall rest.

This field of care is a wilderness day. Here is no rest here is no is no rest Here I must bear with the world and detain. Yet I am blessed, I am blessed. Soon shall I be from the wicked release There shall my joy with the Lord be increased soon shall the faithful forever be blessed. There there is rest.

There is rest.

It is true that in this present body or temporary house of pilgrimage we groan, oppressed not only by the evil influence of the world and the devil on every hand, but also, and especially by the weaknesses of our own flesh. For when we would do good, evil is present with us, so that the good which we would do we are often hindered from doing, while the evil which we do not approve often obtrudes itself on us, and requires to be continually resisted and overcome. As the apostle elsewhere declares, we which have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the deliverance of our body, the Church, into the glorious likeness of our Lord. But our groaning is not with a desire to be unclothed we do not wish to be without a body for that. At very best, all down through the gospel age would mean to be asleep in Jesus, waiting for the resurrection morning, that then we might be clothed upon with our house from heaven, our new perfect and permanent body, our home.

What we prefer is not to have the little spark of the present life extinguished, but to have it swallowed up, absorbed into the perfect conditions of the perfect life to which we are begotten with its perfect body.

Hymn 7 a little while A Little While now he has come the hour draws on the paint the blessed are the glorious morn. When we shall see his face how light our trials. Then we’ll see how short our pilgrim way the life of earth a fitful dream dispelled by dawning day. Then, O Lord Jesus, quickly show thy glory and by light and take God’s lonely children home and end earth’s we night a little while with patience, Lord, I fain would at least how long for how can I with such a home of glory and of home with such a joy awaiting me that wisdom how can I keep the longing back and house oppressed my groan? Then, O Lord Jesus, quickly show thy glory and thy light and take God’s love in children home land in earth’s weary night.

Yet peace my heart and hush my tongue become my troubled breast. Each passing hour prepares thee more foreverlasting rest. Thou knowest well the time thy God appoints for thee is best. The morning star already shine, the glory is in the east. Then, O Lord Jesus, quickly show thy glory and thy light and take God’s longing children home and in her swear remind sister Laura Kirkham will read the next portion.

And such joy produced by the true gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, received into an honest heart, naturally and properly awakens the songs in the house of our pilgrimage. Amid all the tumult and the strife, I hear the music ringing. It finds an echo in my soul. How can I keep from singing? The word song has a wider meaning than simply a musical cadence.

It is used in the Scriptures and elsewhere to indicate a joyful message of any kind. For instance, we say, referring to the gospel, the knowledge of the divine plan, thou hast put a new song into my mouth, even the loving kindness of our God, and it is a fact that those who have tasted that the Lord is gracious, those who have received the joy which no man can take from them, those who have tasted of the grace of God and Christ will not only rejoice and literally sing musical songs with their lips, but they will also rejoice to have their entire lives a song of praise and thanksgiving unto God. The song will bubble over on every proper occasion, wherever hearing ears are found. So fully will the cleansed, justified, and consecrated heart appreciate God’s goodness, and so greatly will it desire to tell the whole world these blessed tidings, and speak of the time of rest that nears.

It is true, nevertheless, that our Christian experience is not always of a kind, calculated to produce an exuberance of spirit. It is doubtless to our advantage that sometimes there are dark hours such as our Redeemer experienced when he said, my soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death. Such experiences no doubt draw us nearer to the fountain of comfort, of joy and peace, and our blessings in disguise, and amongst the all things which are working together for our good. But even in the very midst of trials and difficulties, and while cast down, so that the songs do not abound, we may nevertheless, in all conditions and at all times realize God’s love and care, and so firmly hold on to the Lord with the hand of faith, that we would in the darkest moments be able to realize the joy of our Master’s sympathy and love and help, and thus have the joy which no disaster of the present time can interrupt. Reprint 2230 let’s sing hymn 43, comfort and sorrow.

How do we keep these songs and melodies in our heart? We gather the manna every day while on our wilderness journey. From reprint 5279 read by Sister Janet Davenport.

Jesus reminded his followers of that manna given in the wilderness and declared that it typified himself the true bread. As the Israelites would have perished without food, so the spiritual Israelites would not have sufficient strength for the journey without the heavenly food. Jesus gave himself the title of the Truth. Whoever therefore eats of this bread from heaven partakes of the Truth, sanctify them through thy truth. Thy word is truth.

Only by partaking largely, regularly, daily of our Lord his merit and his gracious arrangements for us, can we become strong in him and prosecute the journey faithfully and enter into the spiritual Canaan. As every Israelite was required to gather manna for himself, so each Christian is required to gather and appropriate the truth. We must do our own part along spiritual lines as well as along earthly lines. The graces of the Holy Spirit cannot be expected to come to perfection without preparatory planting, pruning, cultivating. Someone has well said.

Rooming at a college does not make a scholar, nor occupying a pew in church make a Christian to grow strong in the Lord and in the power of his might we must feed upon him daily. We must appreciate and appropriate the merits of his sacrifice. This has been an excerpt from reprint 5, 2, 7, 9. Let us sing hymn number 53, Forever with the Lord Forever with the Lord SA the promise grow There will be more to share we might break thy glory known Thy praises everywhere foreign number 107. O use me, Lord Read by brother Scott Davenport.

O use me, Lord. Lord, speak to me that I may speak in living echoes of thy tone. As thou has sought, so let me seek thine erring children lost and lonely. O, lead me, Lord, that I may lead the wandering and the wavering feet. O, feed me, Lord, that I may feed thy hungry ones with manna sweet.

O, strengthen me that while I stand firm on the rock and strong in Thee I may stretch out a helping hand to wrestlers in the troubled sea. O, teach me, Lord, that I may teach the precious things thou dost impart and wing my words that they may reach the hidden depths of many a heart. O, give thine own sweet rest to me that I may speak with soothing power a word in season as from thee to weary ones in needful hour. O fill me with thy fullness, Lord, until my very heart overflow Enkindling thought and glowing word thy love to tell thy praise to show O use me, Lord, Use even me just as thou wilt and win and wear until thy blessed face I see thy rest, Thy joy, Thy glory share. Poems of dawn, number 107.

Sister Amanda Biddle will read the next portion.

It should be the aim of the Lord’s people to cultivate this joy and the conditions favorable to it daily. The condition of our hearts has much to do with it, for this joy is not wholly dependent upon the heads. Our knowledge of the divine word and plan, its possession and increase, depends chiefly upon the heart, the center of our affections. If we set our affections, our hearts on earthly things, and seek for joy through the various gratifications of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life, and so forth, we will thereby quench to some extent the spirit of the new mind, and correspondingly decrease the joys of the new mind. On the contrary, the more we overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil, the more we seek to do the will of our Father who is in heaven, the more we seek for the fellowship and communion of our dear Redeemer, the more we seek to do those things which are pleasing in his sight, so much the more we will have of the joy and peace which no man taketh from us, and which trials, difficulties, and persecutions can only make the more sweet and precious.

And the more we have of this new mind, and the closer we are in sympathy with the Lord, the more we will desire to sing heartily the old, old story of Jesus and his love. Reprint 22:30 how happy and blessed the hours since Jesus I always can see Sweet prospects, sweet birds and sweet flowers have all gained new Sweetness to Hymn 40 Let Praise Abound.

From reprint 5802 titled the Ministry of Sorrow the Reward of Patient Waiting Commit thy way unto the Lord trust also in him, and he shall bring it to pass and he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him. We must not be disappointed and allow our faith to falter when the test of patient endurance is applied, while the outward peace and quietness which we crave tarry long. Our Father has not forgotten us when the answer to our prayers seems to be delayed. Outward peace and calm are not always the conditions best suited to our needs as new creatures and we would not desire conditions in which the precious fruits of the Spirit would not grow and develop in us. Therefore think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which shall try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you.

But rejoice. He who numbers the very hairs of our heads is never indifferent to the sufferings and needs of his weakest and humblest child. O how sweet is the realization of such loving, abiding care when he giveth quietness. Who then can make trouble? The saints have indeed, in every sorrow and grief, a blessed consolation of which the world is wholly in ignorance.

None but the true child of God can know it. What is this consolation? Oh, you who have never enlisted under the banner of the cross, who have never put yourselves wholly in the hands of the Lord, to be molded and fashioned into its glorious likeness who have never made an earnest effort to stem the tide of the tendencies of your own fallen nature who have never contended earnestly for the truth and righteousness in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation. What can you know of the sweets of this divine consolation? It is the precious balm of Gilead for wounded spirits on the battlefield of life.

It is the stimulating, refreshing draught for fainting souls hard pressed by the relentless foe it is the soothing caress of a loving hand upon the fevered brow of the noble contender for truth and godliness. It is the gentle whisper of hope and love and courage, when heart and flesh are almost Failing this is divine consolation, the only consolation that has in it any virtue of healing or refreshment. It is reserved alone for those noble souls who are faithfully bearing the burden in the heat of the day in the service of the King of kings, while those who listlessly drift with the current of the world, and the downward tendencies of the carnal nature, can never have an intimation of its sweetness. How loving and tender is our God, and how wise and strong his promises have never failed those who have put their trust in Him. We may feel that our efforts to be good and to do good are very unproductive, but the opposition from without and within is very strong.

But it is when we are weak, when we realize our own helplessness and incompetency, that we may be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. It is then that we may realize that his strength is made perfect in our weakness. The fact that we are weak and lame does not separate us from the love and power of God, while we are striving to do his will. For he knoweth our frame he remembereth that we are dust. Then let us more and more lay hold of this strength of the Lord, that we may courageously pursue our course in the narrow way of difficulty and trial.

Precious indeed to the saints of God is the ministry of pain and sorrow. Let’s sing hymn number 214 only waiting sa sam, sa sam.

Ye have seen the patience of Job. The saints of every age have learned the blessing of afflictions and sorrows. The psalmist David says, it is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes, and again before I was afflicted, I went astray, but now have I kept thy word. God’s faithful servant Job suffered almost overwhelming troubles, but the Lord brought him out into a large place.

When his testings had accomplished their desired effect, he was proven and strengthened by his sore experiences. Few if any of us could suffer more. He suffered the loss of all his property, then all his children, whom he loved, then of the love and loyalty of his wife, and finally he was smitten with sore disease, boils from head to foot to crown. All three of his friends came to see him on hearing of his great trials, and instead of being true comforters, they added to his sorrows by insisting that his own sins must have been the cause of all these disasters, that his experiences must surely be punishments from the Lord because of unfaithfulness on his part. Surely poor Job was afflicted.

But did he lose his faith in God. Hear him. The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.

Though he slay me, yet will I trust him. Job was indeed much cast down, but he maintained his integrity of character and his faith in the Lord through all. He did not charge God with injustice, and God did not desert his faithful servant. He reproved his accusers and required them to offer sacrifice, and instructed Job to pray for them that their trespasses might be overlooked. In the end he was blessed more abundantly than ever before.

God made him a great type of the human family, of the troubles of their fallen condition, and of their final restoration to all that was lost in Adam, with the blessings of added experiences to make them wise. How faithful is the Lord in all his dealings. Truly his children should never doubt his love for faith, can firmly trust him, come what may.

Preciousness of intimate fellowship with God.

It is when continued trust in the Lord and His many responsive providences in our lives have ripened into precious personal acquaintance and intimacy that we learn to delight in Him. Yes, it is when the heart answers to heart, when pleading prayer brings recognized answers of peace, when the Divine love and care have been clearly seen in the guidance of our way that we can recognize the abiding presence with us of the Father and the Son. Then, however dark may be our way, however severe may be the storm that rages about us, the thought of Divine providence is ever with us, so that as the children of the Lord, we are never in despair. Though cast down, we are not destroyed. Though persecuted, we are never forsaken.

We know our Father’s hand is ever at the helm, that his love and care are sure and unfailing. Those who have come into real heart sympathy with God have learned to see him as the fountain of all goodness and truth and blessing. To them he is the one altogether lovely. His law is their delight his friendship and love are their very life. When the heart has become thus centered in God, it is the most natural impulse to commit its way unto Him.

These can truly sing with the poet. So on I go, not knowing I would not if I might. I’d rather walk in the dark with God, than go alone in the light. I’d rather walk by faith in him, than go alone by sight.

Surely these have been the desires of their heart, and no good thing shall be withheld from them. Their fervent prayers avail much, and in the Lord’s good time their righteousness, however much of it may now be misunderstood, misrepresented, and evil spoken of shall be brought forth as the light, clear, cloudless, and widely manifest and their judgment, the justice and and righteousness of their course, and of their hearts, shall be brought forth as the noonday. Even while we remain here as aliens and foreigners in the enemy’s land, we shall be fed, nourished, temporarily and spiritually. Temporarily and spiritually, and shall rejoice and be glad in the house of our pilgrimage.

Precious indeed are the promises of God, and to the praise of his abounding grace. His saints of the past and of the present all bear ample testimony to their fulfilment, who need faint while such a river ever flows, their thirst to assuage grace with like the Lord the Giver never fails from age to age.

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