GOD IS "STILL AND WATCHING"
Sir,—l found the following recently in a devotional book, and thought how applicable it is to these times in which we live. “I will be still, and I will behold in my dwelling place.” (Isaiah 18, 4.) Assyria is marching against Ethiopia, and as the armies advance, God makes no effort to arrest them; it seems as though* they will.be allowed to work their will. He is still watching them from His dwelling place, but before the harvest, the whole of the proud army of Assyria is smitten as easily as * when sprigs are cut off by the pruning hook of the husbandman. Is not this a marvellous conception of God—being still and watching? His stillness is not acquiescence. His silence is not consent. He is only biding his time, and will ;arlse in the most opportune moment, when the designs of the wicked seem on the point of success, to overwhelm them with disaster. As we look out on the evil of the world,, as we think, of the apparent success of .wrongdoing, as we wince beneath the oppression of those that hate us; let ,us remember these marvellous
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Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23315, 29 April 1941, Page 12
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