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br.writeln("<center><B>Christian Quotation of the Day</B><BR><SMALL>Friday, October 23, 2026</SMALL></center>");
br.writeln("<DT style=\"margin-left:0in;text-indent:.2in\">I am glad ye have been acquainted from your youth with the wrestlings of God, being cast from furnace to furnace, knowing if you were not dear to God, and if your health did not require so much of him, he would not spend so much physic upon you. All the brethren and sisters of Christ must be conformed to his image in suffering, Rom. 8:17, and some do more clearly resemble the copy than others.");
br.writeln("<DT style=\"margin-left:.4in;text-indent:-.2in\">... <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodndan.htm#Rutherford\">Samuel Rutherford</A> (1600-1664), <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodndth.htm#LettersRuther\"><I>Letters of Samuel Rutherford</I></A>, Edinburgh: William Whyte &amp; Co., 1848, letter, Jan. 15, 1629, p. 8");
br.writeln("(see the <A target=_blank HREF=\"http://books.google.com/books?id=HTkEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA8&dq=%22with+the+wrestlings+of+God%22\">book</A>; see also <A target=_blank HREF=http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Rom.+8:17;+Deut.+4:20;+Isa.+48:10;+Mal.+3:2;+Matt.+16:24;+Luke+24:26;+Acts+14:21-22;+Phil.+1:29-30;+2+Tim.+2:10-14>Rom. 8:17; Deut. 4:20; Isa. 48:10; Mal. 3:2; Matt. 16:24; Luke 24:26; Acts 14:21-22; Phil. 1:29-30; 2 Tim. 2:10-14</A>; more at <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub2.htm#God\">God</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub2.htm#Health\">Health</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub2.htm#Historical\">Historical</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub3.htm#KnowingGod\">Knowing God</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub4.htm#Suffer\">Suffer</A>)");
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