...if at last he have entirely failed of success, then he may take up the lamentation " I have laboured in vain — I have spent my strength for nought and in vain." It would be presumptuous to say that the case supposed has never even in this favoured period of the...

...perdition, that the scripture might be fulfilled."! But O how depressing to reflect, " I have laboured in vain ; I have spent my strength for nought and in vain ;"§ to look back upon a ministry, not the " savour of life unto life, but of death unto death," and...

...useless, he is often ready to lay down his commission at his Master's feet ; to say, " I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain." Bound to engage at the times appointed, and knowing what is expected from him ; in his perplexity arising...

...independent of the success which might be vouchsafed to him ; and, in the exercise of faith he could say, " Surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with ,my God."b While, undismayed by the severe trials which he experienced, he exercised this humble confidence...

...success. If we lose our labour, we shall not lose our reward. A greater than all said, " I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and...judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God." SEPT. 8. — " Despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering?" Rom....

...always mist the Holy Ghost : As your fathers did, so do ye." — ./',,'.*, vii. 51. " I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and...judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God.— Ism. zHx.4. But that generation, which was abandoned to all wickedness, is gone : So are most of their...

...afterwards complains of the obstinacy of the ungrateful synagogue : " Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain j yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God." And immediately after it is added,...

...if thou hast laboured, so laboured as to spend thy strength in that service, thou must add with him, Yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God. Isa. xlix. 4. 4. The last duty recommendable to these ambassadors, is Magnanimity, which is no less needful than...

...seemingly, fruitless labour. He preached his farewell sermon on Isa. xlix, 4 : " 1 said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and in...judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God," After the sermon, he baptized a little Greenland boy, which was the first baptism the Brethren had...

...Father, and lament before him, over the bad success of his undertaking : " Then I said, I have laboured usalem which is above is (ver. 4); clearly proving, that the objeot and end of his first coming was to be a sign for the gathering...