Comfort ye, comfort ye My people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem. ISAIAH Xl.1.2.
In close ideal connection are these words of Jesus, found in John xiv. 1: "Let not your hearts be troubled. Ye believe in God; believe also in me." In applying the word to individual work, thought has taken a more extended view.
In the time of the Prophet, it is apparent there was a nation, a peculiar people, looking upward for comfort, and that from a peculiar God; for the Prophet expressly says, "Your God." From the spiritual attitude which Isaiah ever held, came the words which comforted Jerusalem all through the long night of error, until he who was ushered in by the proclamation, "Glory to God in the highest, peace on earth, goodwill to men," made his appearance, cradled in a manger, because there was no room at the inn.
