Psalms 90 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

A Prayer of Moses the man of God. It may help us to understand this Psalm if we recollect the circumstances which surrounded Moses when he was in the desert. For forty years, he had to see a whole generation of people die in the wilderness. In addition to the deaths which might occur among those who were born in the wilderness, the whole of that great host which came out of Egypt, numbering, probably, between two and three millions of persons, must lie in their graves in the desert, so that there must have been constant funerals, and the march of the children of Israel could be perceived along the desert track by the graves which they left behind them. You do not wonder, therefore, at this expression of the awe of «Moses the man of God» as he was so continually reminded of the mortality of mankind, and you note how reverently and trustfully he turns to the ever-living and eternal God, and rests in him.

Psalms 90:1. LORD, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.

«Did not Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all our fathers dwell in thee?

And though we are now weary-footed pilgrims, who have no fixed dwelling place on earth, we do dwell in thee. Thou, Lord, art the true home of all the generations of thy people.»

Psalms 90:2. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

God is the only being who has had eternal and essential existence independently of all others, and all others have owed their existence to him.

Psalms 90:3. Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.

He sends us forth into life, and he calls us back again in death.

Psalms 90:4. For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

Yesterday, while it was with us, was a short period of four and twenty hours; but when it is past, it seems like nothing at all. A thousand years, all big with events which we consider to be full of weight and importance, make up a long period in which myriads of men come and go; yet these thousand years, in God's sight, «are but as yesterday when it is past,» or but as the few hours in the night during which the mariner keeps watch at sea, and then is relieved by another. A thousand years are but «as a watch in the night» to the Eternal, and he needs no one to relieve him, for «he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.»

Psalms 90:5. Thou carriest them away as with a flood;

They have no power to stem the torrent.

Psalms 90:5. They are as a sleep:

Our earthly existence is but «as a sleep.» Many things are not what they seem to us to be in our fevered dreams. The time of awaking is coming, and then things will appear very different to us from what they seem to be now.

Psalms 90:5. They are like grass which groweth up.

Fresh, green, vigorous, lovely, restful to the eye.

Psalms 90:6. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

It needs no long period, ages upon ages, to destroy its beauty; only let the swiftly-passing day come to its waning, and the grass «is cut down, and withereth.»

Psalms 90:7. For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.

If we had to endure the flames of God's anger, we should be consumed by it; but I think that Christians should not read this passage as though it applied to them. They are not under the divine anger, nor need they fear being troubled by the divine wrath, for his anger is turned away from them through the great atoning sacrifice of his Son Jesus Christ. But the children of Israel in the wilderness were being consumed by God's anger, and by his wrath they were being troubled, so that the words of Moses did apply to them.

Psalms 90:8-9. Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.

Like a romance, with which the Orientals still delight to beguile the passing hours. Such is the life of man: «as a tale that is told.»

Psalms 90:10. The days of our years are threescore years and ten;

This was a gloomy fact to Moses, who lived to be a hundred and twenty years of age, and who probably remembered other men who had been far older than himself. Yet it is well that the ordinary period of human life has been shortened. It is still far too long for those who do evil, though it may not be too long for those who do good. Yet there are, even now, some who outlive their usefulness, and who might have been happier if they had finished their course sooner. «The days of our years are threescore years and ten;»

Psalms 90:10. And if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow: for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

Whither do we fly? That is the all-important point. The cutting of the string that holds the bird by the foot is a blessing or a curse according to the way in which it takes its flight. If we fly up to build our nest on yonder trees of God that are full of sap, then, indeed, we do well when we fly away; and we may even long for the wings of a dove, that we may fly away, and be at rest.

Psalms 90:11-12. Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath. So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

It has been well said that many men will number their cows, and number their coins, but forget to number their days. Yet that is a kind of arithmetic that would be exceedingly profitable to those who practiced it aright. Counting our days, and finding them but few, we should seek to use them discreetly, and we should not reckon that we could afford to lose so much as one of them. Who would be a spendthrift with so small a store as that which belongs to us?

Psalms 90:13-14. Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants. O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

«If they are but few, yet let them be happy. Give us an abundance of thy mercy, O Lord, and let us have it at once, so that, however few our days may he, every one of them may be spent in the ways of wisdom, and, consequently, in the ways of peace and happiness.»

Psalms 90:15. Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.

«Balance our sorrows with an equal weight of joys. Give us grace equivalent to our griefs; and if thou hast given to us a bitter cup of woe, now let us drink from the golden chalice of thy love, and so let our fainting spirits be refreshed.»

Psalms 90:16. Let thy work appear unto thy servants,

May we have grace to devote ourselves entirely to God's service, and do the work which he has appointed us to do!

Psalms 90:16. And thy glory unto their children.

If we may not live to see the success of our efforts, may our children see it! If the glory of that bright millennial age, which is certain to come in due time, shall not gladden our eyes before we fall asleep in Jesus, let us do the Lord's work so far as we can that our children may see his glory.

Psalms 90:17. And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us;

Even if we die, let our work live. May there be something permanent remaining after we are gone; not wood, hay, and stubble, which the fire will consume; but a building of gold, silver, and precious stones which will endure the fire that, sooner or later, will «try every man's work of what sort it is.»

Psalms 90:17. Yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

«A prayer of Moses, the man of God.» It is well to know the author, because it helps you to an understanding of the psalm. Remember that Moses lived in the midst of a pilgrim people who were dwelling in tents, journeying towards Canaan. He lived in the midst of a people doomed to die in the wilderness. Only two of them, Moses himself not one of them only two of those that came out of Egypt were to be permitted to enter into the promised land. You may expect, therefore to find much that is somber about this psalm, and yet there is much that is very restful trustful, about it. If it is the prayer of Moses, it is the prayer of a man of God.

Psalms 90:1. LORD, thou has been our dwelling place in all generations.

Thy chosen people have dwelt in thee. Thou art their rest, their refuge, their comfort, their home. It is just the same now as in the days of Moses.

God's people have no dwelling-place for their souls, but their God. They are happy when they get to him. In him they dwell at ease.

Psalms 90:2. Before the mountains were brought forth,

Before they were born like infants, gigantic as they are.

Psalms 90:2. Or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

Everything else changes. Thou dost not. We lose our comforts. We dwell, as it were, in tents which are taken down, and removed, but there is no change in thee. Beloved brethren, you know this truth, but do you enjoy it? I think there is no sweeter food for the soul than the doctrine of the immutability of the eternal existence of God God that cannot die and cannot change that is, and always is, God. Oh! he is our confidence and joy! As for men, what are they?

Psalms 90:3. Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, return, ye children of men.

He has only to speak no need to take the scythe and mow us down. He does but say, «Return, ye children of men,» and we go back to the dust.

Psalms 90:4. For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

A thousand years is a very long period in human history. If you fly back and try, in your knowledge of history, to recollect what the world was a thousand years ago, it seems, a long, long time ago; but to God, who ever liveth, all the age of the world must seem but as the twinkling of an eye. What are a thousand years to thee, thou glorious one, before whom the past is present, and the future is as now?

Psalms 90:5. Thou carriest them away as with a flood;

Men stand, as they think, firmly; but as the best built buildings are swept away by a torrent trees, cattle, everything dispersed before the impetuous outburst so, great God, dost thou carry men away as with a flood.

Psalms 90:5-6. They are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

Have you ever watched a field of grass when in full bloom? There is, perhaps, no more beautiful sight. What variety of colors in the flowers, which are the glory of the grass! And then you come by, and the mower has done his work, and there it all lies. It has been withered by the sun's heat. Just such are we. Our generations fall before the scythe of death as falls the grass. And it is done at once. «In the morning it flourisheth: in the evening it is cut down.»

Psalms 90:7. For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.

Whenever God's anger does break forth against a people, it must consume them! Oh! what a blessing it is if you and I know that his anger is turned away, and he comforts us. Then we are not troubled by it any longer. Do not apply these words to yourselves. They belong to the Israelites in the wilderness, who were dying, consumed by God's anger, and troubled by his wrath. But as for us who believe in Jesus Christ, we have love, instead of anger and the sure mercies of David, instead of wrath, and in this we may rejoice.

Psalms 90:8. Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.

And what was the result of that but that they all had to die? Their carcasses fell in the wilderness. Oh! if you are a believer in Jesus Christ, this text is not true to you does not belong to you. Here is another that belongs to you «Thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back «He has not set them in the light of his countenance, but he has cast them into the depths of the sea and you stand acquitted, justified, beloved. And yet there may be some here who feel their sins tonight, and know that God is looking at their sin. Do you know, dear friend, there is no hope for you but one, and that is written in the Book of Exodus: «When I see the blood, I will pass over you.» If you do but put your trust in the blood of Jesus Christ, God will turn away his eyes from your sins and look upon the blood of Jesus Christ. Yea, the blood of Jesus shall blot out your sins, and you shall rejoice.

Psalms 90:9-10. For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told. The days of our years are threescore years and ten: and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

It is well to have such a sense of our mortality upon us as this psalm suggests, and yet it is better still to recollect that we are immortal that, when we die after the flesh. we shall not die, but live in Christ, world without end. Life is cut off, and it is like a string that holds a bird by the leg: we fly away. Which way? If we are God's own, we fly away above yon clouds. We reach the eternal fields where we shall sing for ever and ever.

Psalms 90:11. Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.

Dread is God's anger, indeed. Who knows it? None of us do. The lost in hell begin to know it, but it will need eternity for them to learn it all. Oh! I charge everyone here who is unpardoned never to attempt to learn what God's anger means. It will be an awful lesson, the power of that anger!

Why, when it is let loose against a man, even in this life in a measure it crushes him. But what the power of that anger must be, who can tell?

Psalms 90:12. So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

Count how many days have gone. Will not the time past suffice us to have wrought the will of the flesh? You cannot tell how few remain, but still, if you live to the longest period of life, taking that for granted which you may not take for granted, how little remains! Oh! that we might by the shortness of life, be led to apply our hearts unto wisdom, so as to live wisely. And what is the best way of living wisely, but to live in Christ, and live to God?

Psalms 90:13. Return, O LORD, how long?

It is an earnest prayer, full of grief. The prophet of Israel, Moses, was attending one continual funeral. Whenever the tribes halted, they formed a cemetery, and buried another legion of their dead. I do not wonder that he prays, «Return, O Lord, how long?»

Psalms 90:13-14. And let it repent thee concerning thy servants. O satisfy us early with thy mercy: that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

If they be but few, help us to live happily in them. Grant us the art of thy grace of knowing thyself, the source of happiness, that we may drink of bliss to the full.

Psalms 90:15. Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.

Give us measure for measure sweets in bounty, according to the bitterness. Surely God has done more than this to some of us. We can bless his name because his love has abounded, and he has made our cup to run over with his goodness.

Psalms 90:16. Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.

We will do the work, and the next generation shall have the glory, We will be content to wait, plodding on. Jesus will come by and by. «Let thy work appear to us; thy glory to our children.»

Psalms 90:17. And let the beauty of the LORD our god be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us:

That, if we must go, we may do something that will live that we may not have lived in vain. «Establish thou the work of our hands upon us.»

Psalms 90:17. Yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

It is my daily prayer. My heart goes up to heaven often that the work that is done in this place may never pass away, but that God would make it such a work of true and real grace, that it may abide until the Lord himself shall come. We may expect it if we seek it at his hands. «Yea, the work of our hands, establish thou it.»

«A prayer of Moses, the man of God.» I think this Psalm has been very much misunderstood, because the title has been forgotten. It is not a Psalm for us in its entirety: it cannot be read by the Christian man and taken as it stands. It is a Psalm of Moses as far as Moses can get. It goes a long way, but there was a Joshua that led the people into the promised land, and there is a Jesus who has «brought life and immortality to light by the gospel.» That light shines through the gloomy haze of this dark Psalm. Please remember that Moses was a man peculiarly tried. We have never duly given weight to the afflictions of Moses. All the people that he brought out of Egypt, with two exceptions, died, and he saw most of them die: himself having the sentence of death in himself, that he, like the rest, must not cross into the Land of Promise; so that with two millions or more of people round about him, that forty years he stood in the valley of the shadow of death, and with all the mercies that surrounded him; yet, still, he must have had continual sorrow of heart, all his old friends and companions passing away one by one. It is a brave Psalm, if you read it in that light: it is a grand specimen of heroic faith.

Psalms 90:1. Lord, thou has been our dwelling place in all generations.

All thy saints abide in thee. Thy fiery, cloudy pillar covers and protects us.

Psalms 90:2. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

Oh! that is grand to feel that there is something stable: there is a rock that never crumbles god from everlasting to everlasting the same. As for us, what are we?

Psalms 90:3. Thou turnest man to destruction, and sayest, Return, ye children of men.

A breath gave them life: a word makes them die.

Psalms 90:4-6. For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up, in the evening it is cut down and withereth.

We have seen this over and over again, as we shall see it yet again this year in the flourishing and the cutting down of the grass; but we forget it for ourselves. Too often we forget it for our companions: we think that they are immortal where all are mortal. Let us correct our estimate that we may somewhat correct our sorrows.

Psalms 90:7. For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.

Which was true of that generation. They died because of God's anger; but we bless God: as many of us as have believed in Christ Jesus are not under the divine anger: it is taken away. When it does fall upon us it is as a father is angry with his children it troubles and consumes us; but, blessed be God we usually walk in the light of his countenance, and joy, and rejoice therein. Let us value his mercy as we see the misery of his wrath.

Psalms 90:8. Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.

That is true of you that know not God. Your sins are always before his face, but it is not true of believers. Thou hast cast all their sins behind thy back. God has forgotten the sins of his chosen, according to his own promise, «Their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more for ever.» O blessed gospel, Moses cannot reach to that.

Psalms 90:9. For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.

«For all our days are passed away in thy wrath.» So it was with those that were round about Moses; but our days are passed in God's goodness: they shall pass away in infinite love, «We spend our years as a tale that is told.»

Psalms 90:10. The days of our years are three-score years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

Speaking of the mass of men, this is all that can be said of them; but as for the godly, where do they fly? They fly into his bosom who has loved them with an everlasting love. What is death but an open cage to bid us fly and build our happy nests on high? Blessed be God that we do fly away. Have not we often wished for it and said, «O that I had the wings of a dove that I might fly away and be at rest» that will come bye-and-bye.

Psalms 90:11. Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.

As he is greatly to be reverenced, so is he greatly to be feared. But the Lord has said of his people, «As I have sworn that the waters of Noah shall no more cover the earth, so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.» Blessed be his name.

Psalms 90:12-14. So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto Wisdom. Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants. O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

Poor Israel was greatly afflicted. These deaths in the wilderness made her a perpetual mourner, but Moses asks that God will return to his people, cheer and encourage them, and let the few days they have to live be bright with his presence.

Psalms 90:15-17. Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil. Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children. And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

This exposition consisted of readings from Psalms 90:1 and Psalms 119:21-32.

Psalms 90:1 is entitled «A Prayer of Moses the man of God,» and it furnishes a suitable prayer for every man of God. Any men of God who have had experience as deep, and trying, and varied as that of Moses will be the better able to enter into the spirit of the Psalm.

Psalms 90:1. LORD thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.

«This world in which we live is no home for our immortal spirits. Thou givest us habitations for our bodies, but they are no dwelling places for our spirits that are of a nobler order. We dwell in thee, O Lord; thou art our home. Beneath thy wide wings we find blessed shelter, and in communion with thee our hearts are kept in perfect peace. Lord, thou art the home of thy people in all generations; not only in the generations that are past, when Noah, and Abraham and Moses, and David, and all thine ancient servants found a refuge in thee, but even to this day thou art still our strong castle and our high tower our refuge and place of defense, our dwelling place even in this generation.»

Psalms 90:2. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

When compared with God, those hoary hills are but as infants of a day, and the whole round world itself is but as a new-born child. «From everlasting» has he existed, when all created things slept in his infinite mind like unborn forests sleep in an acorn cup, and so on for ever, «to everlasting,» when all created things shall have dissolved, when back to nothing this fair world shall have gone, God shall still be the same. He is a rook that cannot be removed. There is no terra firma upon this earth; but while all things are whirling around us, we find a firm dwelling place beyond the stars in the ever-living and immutable Jehovah. No man's home is safe unless it is built on something more stable than this poor trembling earth, but he who rests on God, and lives in God, has the best of all habitations wherein to dwell in safety for ever.

Psalms 90:3. Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.

Man is mortal, conspicuously so. As we walk about our streets, how we miss our old companions one by one. They have returned to the bosom of mother earth whence they first sprang. The inhabitants of this world seem to pass in procession before our eyes; those who were here a few minutes ago are gone past, and another rank has come, and another, and another and they will soon all be gone, and we shall be gone too. He, then, who hopes to find a home amongst the sons of men will miss it, but he who makes the eternal God his habitation shall still be at home in the Lord even when wife, and child, and brother, and friend all sleep in the silence of the sepulcher.

Psalms 90:4. For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

Our measurements of time are nothing to God. There is nothing past and nothing future with him, all things are present in the eternal Now of God. What a wonderful truth this is of the eternal existence of God, and what boundless comfort it brings to the man who feels that this God is his God, his Father, his Friend, and his All-in-all!

Psalms 90:5-6. Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

Such is the best estate of man, a field bedecked with daisies, kingcups, and other frail flowers, but the mower's scythe is near, you may hear him sharpening it; and, soon, along the sword all the sons of men shall fall, and thou who hast found thy hope, thy heaven, thy confidence here, how poor wilt thou be in the end thereof; but O thou who hast sent all thine hearts desires upwards to thy God, thou who art living in the future, living in the infinite, how secure art thou, for no rust shall fret thy gold, no moth consume thy garments! Thou art blessed indeed.

Psalms 90:7. For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.

Yes, if the Lord lets even a little of his wrath out for a while against his servants, how greatly do we suffer! Blessed be his name, it never is real anger against his own chosen people. He does but hide his love under the form of wrath, just as a father never really hates his child, and even though he is angry with him for his faults, and chastises him, yet there is more love than wrath in every blow of the rod. Still, it is a sad thing to lose the sense of God's love in the heart, it consumes us and troubles us. We could bear sickness, we could bear slander or persecution, or almost anything out the absence of the light of God's countenance; that is the worst of trials to his children.

Psalms 90:8-10. Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told. The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

A long life or a short life, what a little difference it makes when the last hour comes! The patriarch as well as the child descendeth to the grave and all, as they sleep in their separate graves, seem only to have lived for a little moment, and then to have passed away.

Psalms 90:11. Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to they fear, so is thy wrath.

God grant that none of us may ever know experimentally the power of his anger; but may we know it, as a matter of faith, so as to tremble concerning it, and so as to flee to Christ to be delivered from it! But what must it be really to feel the power of God's anger? I implore you never to believe any teaching that seems to make God's anger less terrible than you thought it to be. It is not possible to exaggerate here, the power of God's anger is immeasurable, and that is why the power of Christ's atonement is infinite.

Psalms 90:12. So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

That is the great matter, after all, to get the heart applied to wisdom, to learn what is the right way, and to walk in it in the practical actions of daily life. It is of little use for us to learn to number our days if it merely enables us to sit down in self-confidence and carnal security; but if our hearts be applied to true wisdom, the Lord's teaching has been effectual.

Psalms 90:13-14. Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants. O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

Dear young people, here is a suitable prayer for you to present to God: «O satisfy us early with thy mercy.» Believe me, there is no joy for a lad like that of loving the Lord Jesus Christ while he is yet young; and O ye maidens, there is no fairer jewel that you can ever wear than that of love to Jesus Christ.

«'Twill save us from a thousand snares To mind religion young;

Grace will preserve our following years,

And make our virtues strong.»

And each one of us may pray this prayer. «Lord, now give us thy mercy! If we are unsaved, let us not remain so! If we have lost the comfort of thy presence for a while, restore it to us now! Leave us not long in darkness, but satisfy us early with thy mercy!»

Psalms 90:15. Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.

It is right, then, to pray for joy. Indeed, joy is so conspicuous a blessing to a Christian, it is so closely connected with the healthfulness of all his virtues that he should seek after it until he finds it.

Psalms 90:16. Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.

«Lord, let us see thy work here! Oh, for thy name's sake, take thy right hand out of thy bosom, and work mightily in our midst! Withdraw not the working of the Holy Ghost from us thy people! Let thy work of conversion, thy work of edification, thy work of the conquest of the world, appear unto thy servants!»

Psalms 90:17. And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

«Let not what we do for thee fall to the ground like a badly-built wall! Let not our work be consumed in the great testing fire, ‘but the work of our hands establish thou it!'»

This exposition consisted of readings from Psalms 90:1.; and Acts 27:1-26.