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14 his own private disaster an instrument of spiritual witness.

A later prophet, the author of the latter part of Isaiah, adopts the same moving and suggestive thought when he thus consoles the captive nation:

And again in another place the prophet writes:

"Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken: neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzi-bah, and thy land Beulah: for