eaning of the world's vain seeking and
profitless effort.

God has answered man's question; for Christ is at once the way back to
God, and the motive which draws us to walk in it. He draws us back by
the magnetism of His love and sacrifice. We return to God when we cling
to Jesus. He is the highest, the tenderest utterance of the divine
voice; and when we yield to His invitation to Himself we return to God.
He calls to each of us, 'Come unto Me, and I will give you rest.' What
can we reply but, 'I come; let me never wander from Thee'?

'STOUT WORDS,' AND THEIR CONFUTATION

'Your words have been stout against Me, saith the Lord: yet ye say,
What have we spoken so much against Thee? 14. Ye have said, It is
vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we have kept His
ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of
Hosts? 15. And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work
wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.
16. Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and
the Lord hearkened, and heard it; and a book of remembrance was
written before Him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought
upon His name. 17. And they shall be Mine, saith the Lord of Hosts,
in that day when I make up My jewels; and I will spare them, as a
man spareth his own son that serveth him. 18. Then shall ye return,
and discern between the righteous and the wicked; between him that
serveth God and him that serveth Him not. IV. 1. For, behold, the
day cometh that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and
all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh
shall burn them up, saith the Lord of Hosts, that it shall leave
them neither root nor branch. 2. But unto you that fear My Name
shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and
ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. 3. And ye
shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the
soles of your feet, in the day that I shall do this, saith the Lord
of Hosts. 4. Remember ye the law of Moses My servant, which I
commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and
judgments. 5. Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the
coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord: 6. And he shall
turn the heart of the fathers t