...unless one covets the fate of him who, when gazing at a star tumbled into a ditch. Sincere prayer to " the Father of lights, with whom there is no variableness, neither shadow of turning " (James 1 : 17), is safer and better than the closest attention to. the lore of the Chaldean shepherds,...

...still affords us, a pleasing and satisfactory proof, that both have proceeded from the same author, " the Father of lights, with whom there is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." But, there is no evidence, that the divine commission of Paul was, at this time, recognised by the...

...Jehovah ! I change not," he says; "therefore, O Jacob, thou art not consumed."—Mal. iii. 9. " He is the Father of lights, with whom there is no variableness, neither shadow of turning."—James i. 17. "O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good; for His mercy endureth for ever."—Ps....

...acknowledge the great truth it teaches, " that every good and every perfect gift is from above, even from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variableness, neither shadow of turning ;" and while I acknowledge with the next quotation, from the Apostle John, " that God is light, and in him...

...essence of God, is one with the truth which is God himself; for God is truth absolute, since he is the Father of lights, with whom there is no variableness, neither shadow of turning (James i. 17). It is true, and can never be anything else but true, that "there is one God, and there...

...essence of God, is one with the truth which is God himself ; for God is truth absolute, since he is the Father of lights, with whom there is. no variableness, neither shadow of turning (James i. 17). It is true, and can never be anything else but true, that "there is one God, and there...

...The answer is this :— "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of Lights, with whom there is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." As the increase of faith is a good gift, it must come from God, and therefore He ought to be asked...

...full communion of the Church ; but his prayer in the family made me feel reverence, as he mentioned ' the Father of lights, with whom there is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.' My mother was a woman of conscientiousness and prayer, and she made rne fear God and reverence the...

...another verse he says, " Every good gift, and every perfect gift is from above and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." I have said thus much in a line of general discourse, with three particular suggestions I will close....

...the sources by which we are surrounded. " Every good and perfect gift cometh down from above, from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." The Rhone and the Arve. There is an illustration of the gospel, as far as earthly things can illustrate...