| David Everard Ford - Christian life - 1844 - 134 pages
...successful effort, for the benefit of others, may be followed by the lamentation — "They made me keeper of the vineyards ; but mine own vineyard have I not kept," Cant. i. 6. The danger becomes yet greater, as the object of pursuit diverges from religion. And Christians... | |
| American literature - 1844 - 504 pages
...approach of all marauders. In the beautiful Song of Solomon, the spouse is heard to say — " They made me keeper of the vineyards, but mine own vineyard have I not kept." A recent traveller observes, " that, in the route between Jerusalem and the convent of St. Elias, he... | |
| 1845 - 702 pages
...black, because the sun hath looked upon me : my mother's children were angry with me ; they made nie ۮ 0 < 7 Tell me, О thou whom my soul loveth. where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest ut... | |
| Sarah Stickney Ellis - English literature - 1845 - 552 pages
...scrip- ' ture presented themselves. burdened with I deep and poignant reproof, such as " They j made me keeper of the vineyards, but mine own vineyard have I not kept;" so that although the service was got through with tolerably well, I felt that I, at any rate, hnd |... | |
| 1845 - 582 pages
...and uncultivated, may fall into a state of the deepest and most painful declension. " They made me keeper of the vineyards ; but mine own vineyard have I not kept." It is, then, the humble design of the writer in the present work, for a while to withdraw the mind... | |
| Joseph Benson - Bible - 1846 - 1102 pages
...2990. black, because the sun hath looked ' '. upon me : my mother's children were angry with me ; they made me the keeper of the vineyards ; but mine own vineyard have I not kept. 7 T Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at... | |
| Congregational union of England and Wales - 1846 - 506 pages
...STATHAM.* *' Where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?" — Jer. xiii. 20. " They made me the keeper of the vineyards ; but mine own vineyard have I not kept." — Cant. i. 6. • T DO not think that there can ever be quite an epic unity in all our services ;... | |
| Congregational churches - 1918 - 758 pages
...where is to be found the culture of soul which will produce themf 1. The Word of God. "They made me keeper of the vineyards ; but mine own vineyard have I not kept." It is the function of the home missionary to dispense the word of God to others. There is danprer that... | |
| 1846 - 508 pages
...hypocrisy, or to the upbraidings of their own consciences as one is represented, saying: They made me keeper of the vineyards, but mine own vineyard have I not kept. Cant. i : 6. Our responsibilities are great! The gospel is committed to us. We must understand it;... | |
| John Gregg (bp. of Cork, Cloyne and Ross.) - 1847 - 92 pages
...receive it. * Lord Bacon. Can you attend to other people's souls, if you neglect your own ? They made me keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept. Will people do what you recommend, if they see that you do it not yourselves ? If you do not seek the... | |
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