Fragment: Fighting the Good Fight

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What a sorrowful thing it would be (must we say "would be"?) to our hearts, to say " I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course,"—and that end in " the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine," etc.—and "they shall turn away their ears from the truth! " Was that the end, here below, of fighting the good fight of faith? What a world we live in! With this Paul identifies finishing his course; in another world it is different, but this is sorrow. So Christ however, Isa. 49:44Then I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God. (Isaiah 49:4), "I have labored in vain."—-1867.