...in a work most useful and important ; commendable, but deeply responsible. You stand, as it were " between the living and the dead, that the plague may be stayed ;" between the death of ignorance and vice, and the life of knowledge and virtue : sometimes, alas...

...distress ; " to stand," as one of its Registrars emphatically asserted in the language of Holy Writ, " between the living and the dead, that the plague may be stayed ; " to speak the language of hope and consolation, at the same moment that it administers substantial...

...calculation. Thank God, total abstinence has already checked the destroying fiend, and is about to step between the living and the dead, that the plague may be stayed. The Vedas, or sacred books of the Indians, forbid the use of wine, and yet these Indians surpass Europeans...

...calculation. Thank God, total abstinence has already checked the destroying fiend, and is about to step between the living and the dead, that the plague may be stayed. The Vedas, or sacred books of the Indians, forbid the use of wine, and yet these Indians surpass Europeans...

...love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. May God speed his servants of every name, and enable them to stand between the living and the dead, that the plague may be stayed ! OYE JOHN WILLIAMS THE MISSIONARY. FROM 1819, to 1822, Williams' labours were nearly confined to the...

...is fast sweeping them into perdition. Oh ! shall not we, like Aaron, rush with the censer of truth between the living and the dead, that the plague may be stayed ? The " destroying angel" is passing over our cities, our parishes, and our villages, smiting all who...

...are called the priests of the living God, go forth with the censer of the cross in your hands, and stand between the living and the dead, that the plague may be stayed." Our defeats in carrying the gospel to the world, encourage the hope of final triumph in the cause of...

...hand, and to fanaticism, bigotry, and intolerance on the other; and thus, if I may so speak, it stands between the living and the dead, that the plague may be stayed. That religion teaches, at ieast so I understand its teaching, that uo faith can so effectually and...

...the rushing of angelic wings is heard, like the dread portents of general doom ! He stands like Aaron between the living and the dead, that the plague may be stayed ! Passion of soul produced by such influences cannot be seized by any art, and fettered in 'alphabetic...

...lavish sympathy enough upon the criminal ; for God's sake, let us keep a little of it for the honest man. We spend thousands in carrying out the separation...employed exclusively in the work of distribution. I have a great respect, I may say affection, for this class. In Bristol I know nothing of them ; save...