ered; _so
will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places
where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day_."

Reader, this is the work of reformation that God is now accomplishing
in the world. Babylon is spiritually fallen, and God is calling his
people out. In the well-known Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Commentary,
Rev. A.R. Fausset, commenting on Rev. 18:4, has well said: "Even in
the Romish Church, God has a people; but they are in great danger;
their only safety is in coming out of her at once. So also in every
apostate or world-conforming church, there are some of God's visible
and true church, who, if they would be safe, _must come out_."

When literal Babylon was overthrown, the Jews escaped to their own
land. Likewise God's people in spiritual Babylon are commanded to come
out, and with songs of rejoicing they are to make their way to Mount
Zion, and then lend all their efforts to the one work of restoring
primitive truth, thus making Jerusalem "the joy of the whole earth."
Like the Jews of old, "the ransomed of the Lord _shall return_ and
COME TO ZION with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they
shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away"
(Isa. 35:10).

The Psalmist informs us that in Babylon the Jews hung their harps on
the willows and wept when they remembered Zion. When their captors
demanded of them the songs of Zion, they answered despairingly, "How
shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?" (Psa. 137:1-4).
Zion's songs were _songs of deliverance_; hence the Jews could not
sing them in captivity. So also has it been in spiritual Babylon. But
when the ransomed of the Lord "return and come to Zion," "songs and
everlasting joy" break forth again.

The Revelator describes this glorious result after the period of the
apostasy in these words: "And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled
with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and
over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name,
stand on the sea of glass, _having the harps of God_. And they _sing
the song of Moses_ [a song of deliverance] the servant of God, and
the song of the Lamb [a song of redemption]" (Rev. 15:2, 3). Those who
have returned from Babylon have heavenly harps and can sing the songs
of Zion. Praise God!

"From Babel confusion most gladly I fled,
And came to the heights of fair Zion instead;
I'm feasting this moment on