The heart can o’er the darkest woe

A stream of sunlight softly throw,

Or purest bliss destroy.

W. J. Brock.

JUDAH.

When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;

Judah was his sanctuary and Israel his dominion.—Psalm cxiv. 1, 2.

Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.—Joel, iii. 20.

It is evident that our Lord sprang out of Judah.—Hebrews, vii. 14.