...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...lilies of the field* : they toil not', neither do they spm' ; yet your heavenly Father careth for lhem*." He expatiates on the beauty of a single flower*,...

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

...Saviour himself gives it the weight and solemnity of his example : " Behold the lilies of the field j they toil not, neither do they spin, yet your heavenly...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...

...or wherewithal ye shall be clothed ? Your Heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of these things. 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.' Is this a dream ? No, indeed ! But such...

...he 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 in the 19th Psalm; but it is familiar in...

...shall we know what we are to do? The highest voice ever heard on this earth said withal, ' Consider 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.' A glance, that, into the deepest deep...

...he known, is related to have been spoken by Jesus Christ, as a remedy against distrustful care : ' e not fulfilled hefore the eyes of creatures : hut they must he. All This however is far inferior to the allusions in Joh, and in the 19th Psalm; but it is familiar in...

...cry continually for (bod. It teaches them to imitate those saints on the pension list, that are like the lilies of the field ; they toil not, neither do they spin, 14 158 UNITED STATES SPEAKER. yet are arrayed like Solomon in his glory. In fine, it teaches a lesson,...

...and pure eye dwells upon them with delight. The " fowls of the air," ye are much bet ter than they ! "The lilies of the field," " they toil not, neither do they spin ;" and then, with what an eye for all the beauty of God's universe, — "Solomon, in all his glory,...

...sermon that He who made them preached about them ? " Then the thoughtful child said directly, " Consider the lilies of the field : they toil not, neither do they spin : and yet I say nnto you, Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these !" How pleased...