...temptations knowing this that the trying of your faith worketh patience, but let patience have her perfect work that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing." James. Ep. 1 — 2. What I say, then, is, be patient and be cautious, watch and pray, be not weary in well-doing...

...life ; through the same Thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. THE EPISTLE. " But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing." — JAMES i. 4. ris not sufficient to bear one thing : we must bear all things. " Charity beareth all things." Again,...

...temptations (trials), knowing this, that the trial of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.'' — James i. 2 — 4. " Thou art tried with bodily pain and sickness ; these are hard trials. To endure them is...

...patient and long-suffering ; he delights in those who are in some measure like himself. His advice is, " Let patience have its perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking nothing." (Jas. i, 2 — 5.) 6. When we regard our fellow Christians with more charity. We...

...prayer, and the value of the grace of " patience." In this view of its importance, the Apostle says, " Let patience have its perfect work, that ye may be...perfect and entire, wanting nothing;" (James i. 4). Perhaps, too, a thoughtful use of this petition may bring to our mind, that we ourselves, though not...

...recruiting of our spiritual strength, the Scripture points it out as the highway to perfection — " only let patience have its perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing " — not only perfect and entire in patience, but in all that spiritual patience tends to generate...

...ye fall into divers temptations; knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing." These temptations are trials upon afflictions, troubles, persecutions, and the like; but take them...

...divers temptations : know this that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire wanting nothing. James i. 2, 3, 4. Let us run with patience the race that is set before us. Looking unto Jesus the author and...

...of an endless and glorions life. " A short time before he died he quoted the words of St. James, ' Let patience have its perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking nothing,' and commented upon them with much apparent pleasure, and with great clearness of...

...coming of our Lord Jesus Christ." 1 Thess. v, 23. And it is a practical precept which St. James gives: "That ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing." James i, 4. Against these promises of the complete reign of love in the heart, completing our Christian life, it...