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Wednesday. Isa. 42: 1-8.

God carries an ideal in his heart. Eden pictures that ideal most winsomely — God and man walking and working in a garden as closest friends. Sin broke the ideal. God gave his Son to heal the hurt of sin and w’oo us back to the garden-life. Both prophecy and gospel tell how practical and winsome his wooing was. God’ll never rest content till his ideal has become real. Let us make it real today.

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