Volume 64: Emily Macarthur [Mrs. James Macarthur] correspondence and other papers, 1838-1879: No. 381
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strength of nations to look up to for protection & deliverance, but to his church & every individual of its members, for the word is also the God of Jacob, & who was Jacob? a sinner like ourselves, one who deceived his father, & robbed his brother of the blessing, Yet God had taken Jacob under his care, & he cared for him A wanderer from his father's house, he guarded him from the treachery & covetousness of Laban, & from the fury of his brother Esau, & after a life of many trials, brought him to a peaceful end & we hear him declaring on his death bed & expressing his trust & confidence in his God "I have waited for thy salvation O Lord". The many instances of God's being a refuge & a stay to individuals as well as to nations, are too numerous to mention. I shall just name one Micaiah. When Ahab & Jehesophat seated upon two thrones decked in