THE world is full of change. Storms and tempests, earthquakes and convulsions, work their changes. Mighty elements and tremendous forces struggle for the mastery, and rage in their fury, working desolation on every hand. But amid all these changes there is one unchangeable Rock; there is One in Whose Hand is no variableness nor shadow of turning. Everything that man trusts in fails him; everything that man rests on totters and shakes, but they that trust in the Lord shall be as Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abideth forever. Earthly glory fades; earthly power perishes. Everything earthly decays. In the words of Dr. John Cumming:—
“The empire of Caesar is gone; the legions of Rome are mouldering in the dust; the avalanches that Napoleon hurled upon Europe have melted away; the pride of the Pharaohs has fallen; the pyramids they raised to be their tombs are sinking every day in the desert sands; Tyre is the rock for bleaching fishermen’s nets; Sidon has scarcely left a wreck behind; but the Word of God still survives. All things that threatened to extinguish it have only aided it; and it only proves every day, how transient is the noblest monument that man can build, how enduring is the least word God has spoken. Tradition has dug for it a grave; intolerance has lighted for it many a faggot; many a Judas has betrayed it with a kiss; many a Demas has forsaken it, but the Word of God still endures.”
Living Waters.