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" He hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted." - Isaiah 61:1.

Happy is he whose heart is broken in such a sense that he will no longer expect from earth what earth cannot give, and who is in despair of all below the sky. Yes; though he may esteem himself the most wretched of beings, and though he indeed have sorrows far more poignant than those of other men. Other men do not discover their true misery, their true bankruptcy, and do not so intensely feel their need of a special provision sent from the throne of God. They are reconciled to the sterilities of the world. But this one is broken-hearted because he found as he imagined some heaven, in contrast with which the wilderness condition of the world came out very distinctly; and when his oasis vanished he found himself unutterably and hopelessly ruined. So he thought: until he heard a voice saying, " If any man thirst let him come unto me and drink. Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Why will ye die? Is there no balm in Gilead? No physician of the soul? No fountain opened? Christ’s heart was broken, that yours might he bound

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