...distances between the earth and the residence of the blessed, he looked steadfastly into heaven, and 'saw the glory of God. and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.; Acts vii. 55, 56. Who then can declare what will be the power and acting of this sense of sight when...

...came to suffer for his Lord's sake, to rejoice in the prospect of death ; and, like Stephen, to see the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God, ready to bestow on him a crown of righteousness. O what are our sufferings compared to those which...

...delivered his defence before the Sanhedrim, we are told "he looked up steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God, and said, Behold I see the heavens opened, and tlTe Son of man standing on the right hand of God."...

...on him with their teeth." But he, " full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly to heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God." Of this, he made full confession. It filled his enemies with madness, and they cast him out of the...

...your last moments look up, and with the eye of faith behold, what he beheld with his bodily eyes, " the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God," Acts vii. 55, 50; and that, like the innumerable multitude which surrounds the eternal throne above,...

...saw his face as it had been the face of an angel: and "he, looking up steadfastly into heaven, saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God." (Acts vii. 55.) And so will all the "congregation of saints," when the "Son of Man shall come in the...

...his eyes and thoughts upon Heaven : and when, being full of the Holy Ghost, he declared that he saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God," his adversaries asserted that he was a blasphemer, and resolved upon his death, without any further...

...as sense urgeth; as Stephen, in the midst of his sufferings, "looked stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God" (Acts vii. 55). There was somewhat of miracle and extraordinary ecstacy in that vision, the glory of...

...fell from his eyes, and he, ' being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up steadfastly into Heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God !' An interval of some moments succeeded after he had ceased speaking, during which the audience remained...

...of his valour will be the heralds of his renown. The martyr at the stake is divinely strengthened. Extraordinary grace is imparted for extraordinary...glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God."—But to be strong in faith, and patient in hope, in a long and lingering sickness, is an example...