...Lord, I beseech thee send now prosperity." 9. Indirect exercises after labor : text, "They made me keeper of the vineyards, but mine own vineyard have I not kept." 10. Success expected : text, " For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but are mighty through...

...preserve the spirit of 1 See Chap. vi. religion. Have none of us cause to complain — " They made me keeper of the vineyards ; but mine own vineyard have I not kept ? " ' Does not the cultivation of the wilderness sometimes lead us unconsciously to overlook the growth...

...bulcomely,O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedur, us the curtains of Solomon. <i Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked...vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept. The S&ng of SOLOMON. 1 Tell me, O Uiou whom my soul loveth, where , thou feedest, where Uiou makest tkyfiock...

...of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the cuitains of Solomon. 6 Look not upon me, because I tun imes in Jordan, according ; ind mine own vineyard have I not kept. 7 If Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest,...

...comely in Jesus, we very well know, Accepted in him we are whiter than snow." Verse 6.—" Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me. .My mother's children were angry w"' 11 me, they made me keeper of the vineyard, but mine own vineyard have 1 not kept." " Look not...

...vine, and ye are the branches.' John xv. and Solomon saith, ' My mother's children, &c. they made me keeper of the vineyards, but mine own vineyard have I not kept.' Cant. i. 6. Now all yc that are made keepers of vineyards, see that your own vine and vineyard is kept...

...beside the still waters. Pi. xxiii. 2. Look not upon me (taith hii Church to Chritt), because I on black, because the sun hath looked upon me : my mother's...vineyards, but mine own vineyard have I not kept. Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon...

...attention. Snme who spiritualize the Song of Solomon, had better take verse 6, chap, i. for a text — "They made me the keeper of the vineyards, but mine own vineyard have'l not kept." EDITOR. QUERY. A MUCH esteemed brother and fellow-laborer in the kingdom of our Lord,...

...of Cain, nor the direful effects of Noah's curse, but the mark of a scorching sun. ' Look not upon me because I am black, because the sun hath looked...with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards' Canticles i, 6. Jtn this passage the Church o f Christ evidently speaks of herself under the figure...

...send now prosperity !" p LECTURE IX. INDIRECT EXERCISES AFTER LABOUR. CANTICLES i. 6. They made me keeper of the vineyards, but mine own vineyard have I not kept. IN the preceding lecture I have shown you, dear brethren, that your endeavours for the conversion of...