...spear, the shield, the bow. THE GREAT WORK OF THE CHRISTIAN. And I sent my messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down : why shall the work eease, whilst I have it and come down to you 1 Neh. 6; 3. In vain the foe with all iheir...

...striking, too, is the heroism of his language, when tempted to hold a conference with his subtle foes. " I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down ;" or when urged to flee into the temple to save his life, he said, " Shall such a man as I flee ?"...

...Nehemiah, when his enemies tried to decoy him from the building of the wall at Jerusalem, made answer, " I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down." He would not be tempted to relax in his work for one moment ; so with the true Christian. Every soul...

...position go, so long as men are being delivered from devils. HOMILY XXXI. THE FKE-EMINENCE OF GOD'S WORK. I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down, NEHEMIAH vi, 3. NEHEMIAH was doing a great work. He had been cupbearer to Artaxerxes Longimanus, the...

...position go, so long as men are being delivered from devils. HOMILY XXXI. THE PRE-EMINENCE OF GOD'S WORK. I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down. NEHEJOAH vi, 3. NEHEMIAH was doing a great work. He had been cupbearer to Artaxerxes Longimanus, the...

...English Bible. He said, " I will keep it till my dying hour." Jan. 9. Mr. Scott preached from the text, " I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down." It was a solemn and persuasive sermon on the supreme importance of religion. My soul ascended in earnest...

...truly if men should wish to draw us aside from it, we might well answer in the words of Nehemiah, " I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down. Why should the work cease, while I leave it ?" But all are not Ministers. And yet God has just as special a work for you to do...

...outline of the charge that 33 years ago that evening he gave to Mr. Wells from the words in Neh. vi. 3, "I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down." He remembered well a remark he made on that occasion ; it was that he should preach the i truth, the...

...village, that they might deprive the Jews of him who was the life and soul of their undertaking. " I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down," was Nehemiah's answer to their insidious proposals. A yet deeper snare was laid. Nehemiah was warned...

...absorb or be absorbed by the less faithful and the less holy and efficient? Should not the reply be, " I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down." Is it their duty to dispense with the more perfect and complete profession of what they receive, hold,...