...with our Saxon forefathers, who were anxious to grow up stalwart Christians, showing forth the grace of Him Who had called them out of darkness into His marvellous light. KING ALFi1FID. CHAPTER III. llfretr anfr o%r ' THE lamp which shone for David's wandering feet, The...

...preaching Christ and spreading His gospel—to collect together a people who should show forth the praise of Him who had called them out of darkness into His marvellous light—to collect a people, finally to be presented to the Lord by Himself as part of a glorious church...

...Christ and spreading• His gospel — to collect together a people who should show forth the praise of Him who had called them out of darkness into His marvellous light — to collect a people, finally to be presented to the Lord by Himself as part of a glorious church...

...past not a people but being now the people of God, and having now obtained mercy — were 'shewing forth the praises of Him who had called them out of darkness into His marvellous light' (r Pet. i. 9, 10). We do the people, and Nehemiah in particular, no more than justice if we credit...

...doing not their own personal work, but the work entrusted by the Lord to the whole Church, to "show forth the praises of Him who had called them out of darkness into His marvelous light" (1 Pet. 2, 9). Yet, every student of the history of the doctrine of justification,...

...He came, glorious bodies like His : and that, whilst God left them down here, it was that they might shew forth the praises of Him who had called them out of darkness into His marvellous light. And, alas ! he had something more to tell them. He said that in the last days perilous times should...

...strangers as "a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people," who are to show forth the praises of Him who had called them out of darkness into marvellous light, and lest we should lose sight of the fact that St. Peter is exhorting the ancient...

...continue to exist in all lands which had no mark of circumcision at all, which merely stood upon the Name of Him who had called them out of darkness into His marvellous light. At times we are almost tempted to feel that the Gentiles were specially present to the Apostle's mind,...

...priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people " — tells them that they are thus chosen that they may " show forth the praises of Him who had called them out of darkness into His marvellous light." Days passed after that happy evening, signalized by my brother's entrance into this light. It seemed...

...were, a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people, that they might show forth the praises of Him who had called them out of darkness into His marvelous light. Glorious above all stand the apostles and martyrs, followingtheirLord in their blameless...