The spiritual Service of Man, then, has creative forces behind it; work for God upon the hearts and characters of others has creative force behind it. And nature is the seal and the sacrament of this. Let our souls, therefore, dilate with her prospects. Let our impatience study her reasonableness and her laws. Let our weak wills feel the rush of her tides. For the power that is in her, and the faithful pursuance of purposes to their ends, are the power and the character that work behind each witness of our conscience, each effort of our heart for others. Not less strong than she, not less calm, not less certain of success, shall prove the moral Service of Man. FOOTNOTES: [177] The English equivalent is, _nor is loud_. [178] This time with the article, so not _the land_ of Judah only, but _the Earth_. [179] Bax, _Religion of Socialism_. [180] This time "arets" with the article. So not the _land_ of Judah only but the world. [181] The following are the four main meanings of "mishpat" in Isa. xl.-lxvi.: 1. In a general sense, a legal process, xli. 1, _let us come together to the judgement_, or _the law_ (with the article), _cf._ l. 8, _man of my judgement_, _i.e._, my fellow-at-law, my adversary; liii. 8, oppression and _judgement_, _i.e._, a judgement which was oppressive, a legal injustice. 2. A person's _cause_ or _right_, xl. 27, xlix. 4. 3. _Ordinance_ instituted by Jehovah for the life and worship of His people, lviii. 2, _ordinances_ of righteousness, _i.e._, either canonical _laws_, or ordinances by observing which the people would make themselves righteous. 4. In general, the sum of the laws given by Jehovah to Israel, _the Law_, lviii. 2, _Law_ of their God; li. 4, Jehovah says _My Law_ (Rev. Ver. _judgement_), parallel to "Torah" or Revelation (Rev. Ver. _law_). Then absolutely, without the article or Jehovah's name attached, xlii. 1, 3, 4. In lvi. 1 parallel to righteousness; lix. 14 parallel to righteousness, truth and uprightness. In fact, in this last use, while represented as equivalent to civic morality, it is this, not as viewed in its character, _right_, _upright_, but in its obligation as ordained by God: _morality_ as _His Law_. The absence of the article may either mean what it means in the case of _people_ and _land_, _i.e._, the _Law_, too much of a proper name to need the article, or it may be an attempt to abstract the quality of the Law; and if so mishpat is equal to _justice_. [182] _Expositor_, second series, vol. viii., p. 364. [183] This might, of course, only mean what the Servant had to do for his captive countrymen. But coming as it does after the _light of nations_, it seems natural to take it in its wider and more spiritual sense. [184] See ch. xv. of this volume. [185] _Expositor_, second series, viii., pp. 364, 365, 366. [186] _Ibid._, p. 366. CHAPTER XIX. _PROPHET AND MARTYR._ ISAIAH xlix. 1-9; l. 4-11.