| Josiah Marsh - 1847 - 440 pàgines
...bring upon Abraham the things that He hath spoken of him.' And the latter said, Josh. xxiv. 15 ; ' Choose ye this day whom ye will serve ; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.' We declare that we esteem it a duty incumbent on us to pray with and for those... | |
| Daniel Baker - 1847 - 396 pàgines
...saying, with the Psalmist, "My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed;" or with Joshua, "Choose you this day whom ye will serve — but as for me, and my house, we will serve the Lord." — Could this spirit but animate every bosom in this assembly, O what delightful... | |
| 1848 - 444 pàgines
...deliverances wrought out for him, said, " If it seem evil unto you (speaking to the children of Israel) to serve the Lord, choose ye this day whom ye will serve; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." The Psalmist, after the same example, having finished the various services... | |
| Christopher Anderson - 1848 - 432 pàgines
...promised blessing of God on my head, every inch of ground may be at once disputed and maintained." " If it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose ye, this day, whom ye will serve : whether the gods which your Fathers served, that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods... | |
| 1848 - 876 pàgines
...so plain is the thing there that no one can mistake it. God says, for instance, " If it seem evil to you to serve the Lord, choose ye this day whom ye will serve" (Joshua xxiv. I5). He appeals to the freedom which he has given us. He wants in men something better... | |
| National Sunday school union - 1863 - 832 pàgines
...and hope are one; Whom death can only for a little part, Not end the union here begun." " Choose you this day whom ye will serve : ... but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." — Josh. xxiv. 15. IT was a bright summer evening. A cool breeze had arisen,... | |
| Richard Cecil - 1849 - 474 pàgines
...preached word, he embraces it, and acknowledges it before men ; he cries to his former companions, " Choose ye this day whom ye will serve ; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." I would add a few reflections upon this subject : and 1st. ..4. word of caution... | |
| Manchester district Sunday school assoc - 1855 - 800 pàgines
...at his right hand. In aftsr years, one of these men said aloud in the hearing of all the people, " Choose ye this day whom ye will serve : but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." By what he did, he said the same thing now. This was Joshua, the son of Nun... | |
| 1849 - 636 pàgines
...God. The words of Joshua arc beautifully descriptive of his experience at this period : " Choose you this day whom ye will serve ; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." It was there — in the domestic circle — that Christianity was more particularly... | |
| Edward T. Brewster - 1901 - 188 pàgines
...life, that both thou and thy seed may live.1 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve : . . . but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but we will serve the Lord." At what... | |
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