...his glory by your eternal salvation. Meantime, let your patience continue stedfast and immoveable. " Behold the " husbandman waiteth for the precious " fruit of the earth, and hath long pa" tience for it, until he receive the early " and later rain. Be ye also patient, " brethren ; stablish...

...the following very appropriate passage from the Epistle of St. James. Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman...precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for if, until he receive the early and the latter rain. Be ye also patient ; stablish your hearts : for...

...reap. 2. The characteristic of reaping is simple reception. Long has been the time of suspense : " Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it." Slowly and painfully was the ground prepared ; anxiously was the precious seed committed to the earth...

...conflicts." Be patient, therefore, brethren, "behold the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruits of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain."§ While we are seemingly, in the furnace of affliction, God may use us as instruments...

...church as a garden exposed to all the changes of season and of weather. Think of " the husbandman who waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it." Think of what the Lord hath done by your instrumentality. Think more upon what your charge is, " Be...

...they that patiently abide the Lord, those shall inherit the land*." " Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman...the early and the latter rain. Be ye also patient ; for the coming of the Lord draweth nighf." It is not indeed always an easy task to exercise this...

...mercy. (5 Jas. 10, 11.) 17. Does he further enforce the duty of patience Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman...long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. Be ye also patient; stabl ish your hearts : for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh. (5...

...inclement weather and other unfavourable circumstances. So that the husbandman, as the apostle James says, waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath...long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.§ And thus is aptly signified the gradual progress of religion in the heart, the opposition...

...promise. Be patient therefore, brethren, \Uito the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman wait08 eth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. Be ye also patient ; establish your hearts : for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh....

...killed the Righteous One, who did not resist you. 7 BE patient therefore, brethren, until the appearance of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and is patient for it, until it receive the early and the latter rain. 8 Be ye also patient; establish...