...The repeated attacks made on him he keenly felt ; but he pursued the path of duty, only replying, " I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down...work cease, whilst I leave it and come down to you ? " Wesley one day said to him : "As I was passing through St. Paul's Churchyard, I observed two women...

...temple should be delayed, and because he well knew that they wished to injure him. He therefore replied, "I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down...work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you ?" But, if the brave and devout Jew had been compelled to listen to the foes of Israel and of Israel's...

...hath learned to suspect the hollow favours of an enemy, and to return them with safe and just excuses: I cannot come down; why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you ? I do not hear him say, " You intend mischief to me ; I will not come forth to you ; " though this...

...afterwards bravely repelled the invasion and vanquished the Danes. This was the spirit of Nehemiah. " I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down...work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you ? " (Neh. vi. 3.) How will that Spartan youth rise up in judgment against many, who, holding the censer...

...warning. So Nehemiah sent a civil answer, without giving any reason why he would not go. His answer was, " I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down...work cease, whilst I leave it and come down to you ? " So he would not go down from the eminence on which Jerusalem stood, and expose himself to his treacherons...

...endeavour to draw him aside from his purpose, and to do Mm a mischief; but he sent messengers, saying, " I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down:...work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you m ?" So, again, when they had hired Shemaiah to tempt him to hide himself in the Temple, " that he...

...old, when he was tempted to descend from his vocation in rebuilding the city of his forefathers — " I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down...work cease, -whilst I leave it, and come down to you (" Besides individual effort, we shall combine and co-operate with holy brethren, — that, in connection...

...maketh the devices of the people of none effect." — Psa. xxxiii. 10. MORNING. — Bible Question: " Why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you ?" — Neh. vi. 3. " I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down." — Ibid. NOON. — Promise...

...Nehemiah, beset by malicious men, who Would have hindered his great enterprize, replied to them, " I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down...work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you ?" Or when some labourer in God's great harvest-field, with his work before him, is assailed by idle...

...VILLAGES IN THE PLAIN OF ONO. BUT THEY THOUGHT TO DO ME MISCHIEF. AND I SENT MESSENGERS UNTO THEM, SAYING, I AM DOING A GREAT WORK, SO THAT I CANNOT COME DOWN...WORK CEASE, WHILST I LEAVE IT, AND COME DOWN TO YOU? YET THEY SENT UNTO ME FOUR TIMES AFTER THIS SORT; AND I ANSWERED THEM AFTER THE SAME MANNER. — Neh....