...the eternal, the semi-omnipotent power of a good or bad example ! OCTOBER EIGHTEENTH. NEEDING HELP. " If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thot contend with horses ? " — JBR. xii. 5. OH ! when the swift coursers of trouble are brought up,...

...know it is so. for when you have a little sickness, or fear of death, you tremble dreadfully. Now, " if thou hast run with the footmen and they have wearied thee, what wilt thou do when thou contendest with horses ? And if in the land of peace, wherein thou hast...

...upon the prophet, for the members of his own family became his enemies ; whence God said to him, " If thou hast run with the footmen and they have wearied thee, how wilt thou contend with horses ? and if in the land of peace wherein thou trustedst they wearied...

...minor to the major, called O11BO ITSlttl 3p. An example of this rule is to be found in Jer. xii, 5, " If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, [inference] then how canst thou contend with horses?" 6. Implied mference from the minor to the major,...

...over yet, and therefore we seem to have no way but to fortify ourselves by God's grace to face it. " If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, how canst thou contend with horses ? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied...

...not? — and they are written to warn him " who thinketh he standeth, to take heed lest he fall." " If thou hast run with the footmen and they have wearied thee," asks the prophet, " canst thou contend with horsemen?" Yet, strange to say, though Abraham contended...

...over yet, and therefore we seem to have no way but to fortify ourselves by God's grace to face it. " If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, how canst thou contend with horses ? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied...

...deceived or deceive yourselves that it does not much matter how you do little duties. The prophet says, " If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, how canst thou contend with horses ?" If you cannot do little things, how can you ever hope to do greater...

...power and love. III. FAILURE UNDER THE SMALLER TRIALS OF LIKE INSURES DEFEAT U:;DER THE GREATER. — " If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee," although men of like passions with yourself, " how wilt thou contend with horses," which excel in strength...

...opposition, how can it hope to overcome embattled legions, marshalled by all the wiles of the devil? "If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, how canst thou contend with horses?" A Church which cannot solve the easy problems of mountain, prairie...