...plainly prescribed in 2 Tim. ii. 25, " In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves," for, " the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all men." To yield to their inlreaties would be criminal ; it would lessen the importance of religion ; it would...

...word of truth. But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes. And the servant of the Lord must not strive ; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves ; if. GOD peradventurc...

...for it, as things stand between Be and my child, but to obey the injunction of the apostle, 'And the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all mon, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves, if God peradventure...

...may be kept out of the hands of Christian Teachers. What a strange comment on those words — " The " Servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all " men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing them that " oppose themselves," — is a bishop sitting...

...may be kept out of the hands of Christian Teachers. What a strange comment on those words — " The " Servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all " men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing them that " oppose themselves," — is a bishop sitting...

...general. St. Paul, speaking more especially of those who are in the ministerial office, says : " And the s a point largely and particularly treated by the apostle in the apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves, if God peradventure will...

...truth. These things are not easily borne with a becoming temper: but remember it is written, " The servant of the Lord must not strive ; but be gentle unto all men; apt to teach, patient; in meekness inDirecting those that oppose themselves ;" — 2 Tim. ii. 34 —...

...should feel myself exposed to the frown of an offended Master. I know it is his command, that " the servant of the Lord must " not strive, but be gentle...— patient, in meekness " instructing those that oppose themselves." To this command — (a command to which he who was " meek and lowly in " heart"...

...precept and .example of his Master. He continued to bless Ihcm that persecuted him; knowing that the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient. To the last day he spent among them, he went straight forward, in meekness instructing...

...wise, prudish, and squeamish, and what not. But I made no answer, remembering that it is said, " the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves." ~2 Tim. ii. 24, 25. While...