The sacred mountains . ? 5 MOUNT ZION. 119 well as raptures, suffering as well as joy, andher note of lamentation has arisen as oftenas her song of thanksgiving. He who haskept a record of her tears knows full wellher conflicts and her trials, and that from thetime of her toilsome flight through the wil-derness and desert to the land of Canaan tillnow, she has been a stranger and sojournerin a world of wicked men. Now scatteredto the four winds of heaven, her childrensad captives and her home the prey of thespoiler, she has wept unavailing tears at thefeet of her spoilers ; and now rent by inw
The sacred mountains . ? 5 MOUNT ZION. 119 well as raptures, suffering as well as joy, andher note of lamentation has arisen as oftenas her song of thanksgiving. He who haskept a record of her tears knows full wellher conflicts and her trials, and that from thetime of her toilsome flight through the wil-derness and desert to the land of Canaan tillnow, she has been a stranger and sojournerin a world of wicked men. Now scatteredto the four winds of heaven, her childrensad captives and her home the prey of thespoiler, she has wept unavailing tears at thefeet of her spoilers ; and now rent by inwarddissensions and secret foes, she has commit-ted suicide around her own altars. But stillher very dust has been precious in the eyesof him who hath formed her for himself; andout of the most hopeless bondage, from deep-est ruin, he has again called her, and adornedher with robes of beauty, and put a crownof glory on her head, and made her enemiesto flee before her. Amid the amazement ofthose who believed her ruin c
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