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" The path narrows as we near the goal." Every prop must fall but one.
" Thy rod and thy staff."—Jacob crossed the Jordan with it, and it is beautiful to see him close the scene in worship—" leaning on the top of his staff." May it be ours, too, so to close this earthly pilgrimage, if we are called to die, or patient hold it till the Lord Himself call us hence away—to be "forever with the Lord."
" And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified."