"Thou canst not toil in vain;
Odd, heat^ and moist, and diy
Shan foster and mature the gndn
For gamers in the sky."



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XLV.— TBOS Cnr of the great KINQ; OB, THE
CORONATION OF CHRIST.
" Enter, incarnate GK>d I
No feet but thine have trod

The serpent down :
Blow the full trumpets, blow I
Wider yon portals throw !
Sayiour, triumphant, go

And take thy crown I

<<Lionof Judah— haUI
And let thy name prevail

From age to age :
Lord of the rolling years,
Claim for thine own the spheres,
For thou hast bought with tears

Thy heritage.'*

The sovereignty of Israel sat on the holy hill of
Zion. From the earlier times kings reigned in Salem,
the city of peace. Melehisedek, to whom Abraham
paid tithes, reigned on Zion's summit before the cove-
nant of God was made with Abraham. With regal
splendor the throne of David was here set After
him, in all his glory, Solomon held his court. In
that dramatic psalm, the second, David, speaking by
the Holy Ghost, said that God has set the throne of
his Son on the holy hill of Zion, and declared the
decree — made proclamation to all the world — that
the throne of the Divine Son was established forever,



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that all his enemies shall be dashed in pieces like a
potter's vessel.
