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Rh Let me rejoice in the light which Thou hast imparted; let me serve Thee with active zeal, humbled confidence, and wait with patient expectation for the time in which the soul which Thou receivest shall be satisfied with knowledge. —.

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Be patient, my friends; time rolls rapidly away; our longing has its end. The hour will strike, who knows how soon?—when the maternal lap of everlasting Love shall be opened to us, and the full peace of God breathe around us from the palmy summits of Eden. —.

Waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

The fruits of the gospel are love, forbearance, meekness, purity, joy; those of war are hatred, vengeance, lust, carnage, and misery.