| 1845 - 518 sivua
...heard in their humble homes as in the dwellings of the wealthy. Especially is this the case when " God hath chosen the poor of this world, rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom." But at all times there are many poor whose pathway through life is dark and joyless,... | |
| 546 sivua
...indifference ; and but few will read this brief account without being forcibly reminded, that " God hath chosen the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him." Like Lazarus he was a great sufferer,... | |
| Alexander Watson - 1845 - 612 sivua
...; they are His aristocracy, His nobility. Let them walk as becomes men high in spiritual rank. GOD hath chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which HE hath promised to them that love HIM. Let me beseech you, then, my poorer brethren,... | |
| William L. Roy - 1846 - 854 sivua
...opportunities of learning, but that these privileges should be reserved fora few, ought to remember, lhat "God hath chosen the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom." We may rest assured, that many of the ignorant multitude, as they are termed, are... | |
| John Leifchild - 1846 - 388 sivua
...the attention paid to " the gold ring, and the gay clothing," and ask if the church believes that God hath " chosen the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him," James ii. 1 — 6 ; or if it does not... | |
| James Richards, Samuel H. Gridley - 1846 - 520 sivua
...brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called; but God hath chosen the poor of this world, rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom." Now those whom God thus calls he justifies, by absolving them from the sentence of... | |
| Maria Louisa Charlesworth - 1846 - 236 sivua
...perish, but to take root downward and bear fruit upward, to the praise of the glory of His grace, who hath chosen the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which He hath promised to them that love Him. CHAPTER VIII. ON VISITING THE POOR, WITH... | |
| Holiness - 1847 - 72 sivua
...then, that you fall not under his condemnation, " ye have despised the poor," but remember that " GOD hath chosen the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, which He hath promised to them that love Him."* * S. James ii. 2—4, and 5, 6. 19... | |
| Jane Eliza Leeson - 1847 - 256 sivua
...day to provide for the necessities of the Holy Child and His blessed Mother, do we not learn how God hath chosen the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which He hath promised to them that love Him ? And do not the pomps and vanities of... | |
| Andrew Thomson, Gavin Struthers - 1848 - 370 sivua
...rich in faith." It is not said he hath chosen the heritors of this world, as we have done ; but he hath " chosen the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom." And if they be " heirs of the kingdom," I wish to know by what warrant they are stript... | |
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