...king also rejoiced with great joy; and said, Our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious namek. But who am I ? and what is my people, that we should...thee. O Lord our God, all this store that we have prepared to build thee an house for thine holy name, cometh of thine hand, and is all thine own. I...

...give strength unto all. 13 Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name. 14 the American Bible Society oi thee, and of thine own have we given thee. 15 For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners,...

...a perfect heart. Yet hear how humbly he speaks of all the costly oblations which he had brought. " Who am I, and what is my people, that we should be...come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee. Thine, 0 Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty; for...

...heart, with benevolent David, "Now, therefore, our God, we thank ftee, and praise thy glorious name. But who am I, and what is my people, that we should...willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee, und OF THINE OWN have we given thee." "Covetousness and selfishness will not always prevail on earth,...

...• • Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name. But who am I, and what U my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly,...come of thee and of thine own have we given thee." Many readers of the Herald, before looking at this paragraph, will have turned to the account of donations...

...10.) So was David, when, having made very costly offerings for the building of God's temple, he said, "But who am I, and what is my people, that we should...so willingly after this sort ? for all things come from thee,and of thine own have we given thee;"(lChron. xxix. 14.) and the Centurion in the Gospel,...

...so little apparent heartiness ? Why should they not, rather, entitle themselves to say with David, " Who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort ? " Men and Brethren ! Suffer us for a moment to turn away from the heathen and contemplate the future...

...xxii. 2. If thou be righteous, what -givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand? Job xxxv. 7. All things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee. 1 Chron. xxix. 14. ye have done all that are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants. mind,...

...that led royal David to say, " Now, therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name. But who am I, and what is my people, that we should...come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee. For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers ; our days on the earth are...

...finished his immense preparations for building the house of the Lord. " But," said the holy monarch, " who am I ? " and what is my people ? that we should...come of thee, *' and of thine own have we given thee !" It is needless to contrast this spirit of genuine religion with the reluctance with which professors...