Bedside Watchman ZION'S GLAD MORNING

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August 31st -- Lamentations 1

ZION'S GLAD MORNING

IF we cannot join in the demonstrative ardour of Jeremiah's grief, we certainly mourn with him in a larger form of the same sorrow. We mourn for Jerusalem in a sense not known to those who consider the matter from a merely picturesque point of view. We lament the downtreading of divine law in the earth, because divine law is precious to us both for God's sake and man's sake.... We wait with strong desire, yet with the patience which Israel's God calls for at our hands, the times of the restitution of all things which God hath spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began. With the arrival of those times, Jeremiah, with all the prophets, will have their tears dried and their hearts gladdened with the feast of fat things which the Lord of Hosts will spread for all people in Mount Zion. We are here because we hope to share the gladness of the Lord's redeemed when they shall come with singing unto Zion, with everlasting joy on their heads, sorrow and mourning having fled for ever away.

The Christadelphian, 1884, page 452