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"Jeremiah has always a fascination to Christian hearts, because of the close similarity that exists between his life and that of Jesus Christ. Each of them was "a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief"; each came to his own, and his own received him not; each passed through hours of rejection, desolation, and forsakeness. And in Jeremiah we may see beaten out into detail, experiences which, in our Lord, are but lightly touched on by the evangelists... ...There is an especial message in the ministry of Jeremiah for those who are compelled to stand alone, who fall into the ground to die, who fill up what is behind of the sufferings of Christ, and through death arise to bear fruit in the great world of men, which they passionately love. 1 "THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME UNTO ME" (Jeremiah 1:4, 12, 13)      If the days of David and Solomon may be compared to spring and summer in the history of the Kingdom of Israel, it was late autumn when our ...

by F. B. Meyer Jeremiah 27 Ours the shame to understand That the world prefers the lie; That, with medicine in her hand, She will sink and choose to die! Ours the agonising sense, Of the heaven this earth might be, If, from their blank indifference, Men woke one hour and felt as we! Houghton  When Jeremiah was first summoned to the work of prophet, it was summarized under six distinct divisions. He was set over nations and kingdoms to pluck up, and to break down, and to destroy, and to overthrow; to build and to plant (1:10). Two thirds of his work was therefore in the direction of destruction. It is not pleasant or easy work. No one would choose to stand amid the choking dust of the crumbling brickwork, which is being destroyed to make way for some palatial structure to be erected on the site. Vested interests, long-establishe d abuses, lucrative wrongs, cry out loudly against any attempt to interfere with their existence. But Elijah must precede Elish...