...can be known, is related to have been spoken by Jesus Christ as a remedy against distrustful care. " Behold the lilies of the field, they toil not, neither do they spin." This however is far inferior to the allusions in Job, and the nineteenth Psalm ; but it is similar...

...cry continually for food. It teaches them to imitate those saints on the pension list, who are like the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin, and yet are arrayed like Solomon in all his glory. In fine, it teaches men a lesson which indeed they...

...admit a woman;* others excluded the fair sex on the strength of a passage in scripture : " Consider the lilies of the field, they toil not, neither do they spin ; " thence it was concluded that females, who ought to spin, ought not to reign in the kingdom of the...

...nature. It has the authority of the Sacred Writers upon its side, and even our Saviour himself gives it the weight and the solemnity of his example. " Behold...flower, and draws from it the delightful argument of confidence in God. He •gives us to see that taste may be combined with piety, and that the same heart...

...nature. It has the authority of the Sacred Writers upon its side, and even our Saviour himself gives it the weight and the solemnity of his example. " Behold...flower, and draws from it the delightful argument of confidence in God. He gives us to see that taste may be combined with piety, and that the same heart...

...upon things which the young, especially, are too apt to make the chief objects of their pursuit. ' Behold the lilies of the field, they toil not, neither do they spin ; yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these !' We are told of the ivory steps by which...

...shall take care for this also. They hear his voice, saying to them, " Why take ye thought for raiment ? Behold the lilies of the field ! They toil not, neither do they spin ; yet, I say unto you, that Solomon, in all his glory, was not arrayed like one of these ! " " Ye received,"...

...sparrows of the parable, We harvest not, and yet are fed. Third Voice. What said he more ? Second Voice. " The lilies of the field They toil not, neither do they spin, Yet all the robes that pomp and labour gild, And all the glorious garments wealth can win, E'en Solomon's...

...the air ; for they sow not, neither do they reap ; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Consider the lilies of the field ; they toil not, neither do they spin. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field which to-day is, and to-morro%v is cast into the...

...forgetting the cheering promises of God, 'Lo, I am with you alway, even to the end of the world.' 12. " ' Behold the lilies of the field, they toil not, neither do they spin, yet your heavenly father clotheth them.' The Bible, that invaluable book, is my solace; the life of my soul; the star that directs...