...was nothing to me — the greatest thing was to part with you ; but it is only for a few days: for with the Lord, one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.' March 16, "1816, being ill, she expressed herself to her husband thus :...

...of Jesus Christ, thy dear Son, our only Saviour. &men. Another. Almighty and eternal God, with whom one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day, we bring thee thanks and praise for thy blessings more than we can number with which thou hast crowned...

...faculties, be infinitely and inconceivably remote: but it would be near at hand to Him, with Whom " one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day." We must dismiss, therefore, from our reckonings altogether all computations based on this world's almanacs,...

...centuries intervened. For the latter, although distant to man, would not be so with God, to whom " one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day." We must, therefore, judge the Apostles' language, not by a human, but by the Divine standard. The Spirit—...

...prophecy, since we have a double prediction, with a double verification. Surely if He speaks, to whom "one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day," we need not be surprised to find him using one outline for events, between which there lies a chasm of...

...prophecy, since we have a double prediction, with a double verification. Surely if He speaks, to whom "one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day," we need not be surprised to find him using one outline for events, between which there lies a chasm of...

...earth exposing one hemisphere to the rays of the sun, and keeping the other in the shadow of the globe. With the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one -day, 2 Peter iii, 8. Thus, periods of time belong to created things and can...

...space. It makes but a step, and ages have rolled away;" of the more sublime thought of Holy Writ : " With the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day." Our Secretary of War also hinted the same thought in no obscure terms in...

...their consequent hurry are but an evidence of weakness when shown against the eternal God, with whom one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day. We must never forget that the work of Missions in its entirety is not our work, but God's. Human effort...

...limited plans of man. In the making of worlds we are conversant with the plans of a Creator with whom one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. We must not measure such things by our microscopic scale of time. Nor should we fail to see that vast...