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He has cancelled our guilt; He has made possible our fellowship with the highest; He has opened to men the expanses of heaven; He has charged life with purpose; He has guaranteed our fullest development on the highest possible pattern towards the highest possible goal. The good of the world and the good of the individual are safe within His hands. He has caught us up into the eternal enterprises of God, and if we will we may share in the abiding glories and profits of His kingdom and serve Him from the steps of that Throne that shall never pass away.

My friends, this is the true world power. This is the one kingdom that will survive. The issue is joined, the battle is set, and the outcome is sure. To-night I summon you in the name of the King to join your fortunes to His. It is Christ against Cæsar, truth against error, light against darkness, freedom against tyranny, the golden day against the dark age. Where do you stand? Under what sovereign do you serve? Is it the Emperor or the Child? Is it Christ or Cæsar?

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SHATTERING THE NEST

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SHATTERING THE NEST

TEXT: "As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings, so the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.”Deut. xxxii., 11, 12.

Of all the figures of the Old Testament, perhaps there is no other that illustrates in such a striking fashion the severity and tenderness of the Divine love. It was a figure that was familiar to the vivid imagination of every Oriental mind. On the face of some high cliff, far above the plain, on a ledge of rock, an eagle, with instinctive wisdom, has built her nest, far from the prowling of wild beasts and safe from the fury of the storm. There she has hatched and reared her young. In the early days of their helpless babyhood she has carefully protected them, and has gone out, swift of pinion, keen of eye, and strong in beak

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