Our Sabbath afternoon introduction to this weeks’ lesson has: Hymn 518, “Standing on the Promises”, and Hymn 610, “Stand Like the Brave” ringing in my ears. To these we may add: Hymn 618, “Stand Up! Stand Up for Jesus!”. Martin Luther stood firm and as Ellen White says “his unwavering firmness was the means of emancipating the church, and beginning a new and better era.” The study of unity this week brings a little-sung hymn to mind – a hymn that has unity throughout its lyrics: Hymn 400, “I Come With Joy”. We are reminded on Monday that we are to be ‘stripping away our confidence in ourselves and to have a faithful dependence on God instead’: Hymn 517, “My Faith Looks Up to Thee”

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