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- 600 One lesson which we may learn from this narrative is that God always raises up fitting instrumentalities for the accomplishment of great purposes in His kingdom. Wherever there is a crisis there is a man or woman to meet its responsibilities and to discharge its obligations. This principle is illustrated in every age in the history of the Church. When Israel is to be led out of Egypt, God has a Moses. When Moses lays down the honor of leadership, God has a Joshua, courageous and strong, to lead the people through trial into triumph. When the Philistines were to be destroyed, God sent Samson into the conflict. When kingdoms were to be
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602 united, God raised up David. When he lays down the sceptre, Solomon is ready to carry the work forward to greater heights of national glory. When it seemed as if every knee had bowed to Baal, God gave His people Elijah, fierce and strong, to stand for the right and to rebuke the wrong. When the Gospel was to be carried to the Gentiles, God had the Apostle Paul, trained in the school of Gamaliel and in the deserts of Arabia. When great doctrines were to be formulated, God raised up Augustine, and in later days Luther. Later still a Wesley and a Whitefield come forward to rouse England and America from a dead orthodoxy to a living and working faith. God gave us Florence Nightingale to sing her song in the darkest night of the Crimean War, and to call by her brave example into patriotic service in our day of trial noble American women to follow in her footsteps. God be thanked for the noble women, by whatever name they are called, in whatever century or clime they
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605 have lived, who sought the honor of God and the salvation of their race! In proportion as we are faithful in that which is least, God will enable us to be successful in that which is greatest.
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