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"Lift up the hands which hang down -- as if from weariness and exhaustion. Renew your courage; make a new effort to bear them. The hands fall by the side when we are exhausted with toil, or worn down. Courage and resolution may do much, however, to make them firm, make every effort to bear up under trials. The desire to reach home invigorates the frame of the weary traveler. The hands fall, and the knees tremble, and the heart sinks within us. But confidence in God, and the hope of heaven, and the assurance that all this is for our good, will reinvigorate the enfeebled frame, and enable us to bear what we once supposed would crush us to the dust. A courageous mind braces a feeble body, and hope makes it fresh for new conflicts." Amen, amen.