I Am: All-Sufficient for His People
By Editor
Who can conceive a more beautiful connection of sublime ideas than is found in the following which we clip from an exchange? The authorship is attributed to Bishop Beveridge; "I AM." He doth not say, I AM their light, their guide, their strengthening tower, only I AM. He sets as it were his hand to blank, that his people may write under it what they please that is good for them. As if he said, Are thy weak? I AM strength. Are they poor? I AM riches. Are they in trouble? I AM comfort. Are they sick? I AM health. Are they dying? I AM life. Have they nothing? I AM all things. I AM wisdom and power; I AM justice and mercy; I AM grace and goodness; I AM glory, beauty, holiness, eminence, super-eminence, perfection, all-sufficiency, eternity! JEHOVAH, I AM! Whatsoever is amiable in itself, or desirable unto them, that I AM. Whatsoever is pure and holy, whatsoever is good or needful to make them happy, that I AM."