Man, being essentially active, must find in activity his joy, as well as his beauty and glory; and labor, like every thing else that is good, is its own reward.
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John J. Murray Quote
“O, on that glorious day, when all the hosts of God shall have been gathered from Europe and Asia, from Africa and America—when the long-buried armies of the dead shall come forth, spiritual, incorruptible, glorious, immortal—when the sons of God who have kept their first estate, shall sing "unto Him that loved us," and the redeemed from all parts of the earth, and from all the generations, shall respond in a song sweeter than the songs of the morning-stars when all the sons of God shouted for joy,—may you and I be there to join that everlasting song, and realize that bliss unspeakable which is the enduring portion of the Lord's redeemed.”
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