...For no link to be depended upon can bind man to man; but either individual attachment, as as we read that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul; or else, the higher principle of Christian charity, which teaches us to love all men as ourselves,...

...introduced to Saul by his general, Abner, then, as it appears from 1 Sam. 18: 1, compared with 20: 17, " the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and he loved him as his own soul, and he made a covenant with him." How touchingly do these words delineate...

...introduced to Saul by his general, Abner, then, as it appears from 1 Sam. 18: 1, compared with 20: 17, " the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and he loved him as his own soul, and he made a covenant with him." How touchingly do these words delineate...

...circumstances, whose fortunes, and whose fate, become from that moment identified with our own ; thus, " the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul." FRATERNAL AFFECTION. uniting1 principle, bringing its subjects together on some common ground, and...

...it came to pass, when he had made -'A. an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan waa not say in their hearts, Ah, BO would we have it: let them not say, 2 And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father'? house. 3 Then Jonathan...

...before Saul, who inquired of him whose son he was. When the lad had disclosed his humble origin, we read that " the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul...of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul." The whole history of the fearful trials, dangers, and temptations to which their friendship was subjected,...

...be rivals, disposed them to be friends ! And yet it was not when David had first slain Goliath, but when "he had made an end of speaking unto Saul," that...of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul." How remarkable a proof, that his humility was more to '226 his honour than his victory ! How useful...

...thou, thou young man ? " (1 Sam. xvii. 58), David simply replied, "I am the son of thy servant Jesse." "And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul" (1 Sam. xviii. 1.) And again: "And Jonathan...

...For no link to be depended upon can bind man to man, but either individual attachment,—as we read that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul,—or else the higher principle of Christian charity, which teaches us to love all men as ourselves,...

...another, and seemed to have arisen from the inexplicable law of sympathy. How beautiful the description, ' The soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.' Though Jonathan was most sudden in his attachment, he was neither capricious nor forgetful ; though...