...nothing to do with those places and works of darkness. Be diligent in your respective callings ; " be not slothful in business, but fervent in spirit, serving the Lord." Avoid all unnecessary expenses, that you may have wherewith to communicate to him that needeth, and...

...divine indefatigably laborious all his days. He lived under a conviction of that sacred precept, " Be not slothful in business, but fervent in spirit, serving the Lord." He rose early, and commonly studied twelve hours a day, accounting that a scholar s day. He was resolved...

...commandments when thou shalt enlarge my heart." Right, Christians, by all means say so, and do so. Be not slothful in business, but fervent in spirit, serving the Lord. In your own spiritual concerns, in the family, in the church, and in the world, there is work enough...

...encompassed with so great a cloud of witnesses," and urged to diligence by arguments so impressive, "be not slothful in business, but fervent in spirit serving the Lord ; lay aside every weigM and the sins which most easily beset you, and run with patience the race that...

...with 4 the sword,' 1 Kings xix. 1O. And as to what concerns our conversation in general, we are to be ' not slothful in business, * but fervent in spirit, serving the Lord,' Rom. xii. 11. 7. Since he is a God hearing prayer, we are daily to call upon him, * O thou that hearest...

...vice ;" the Gospel will force the drunkard to " put away his wine ;" it will teach the sluggard to be " not slothful in business, but fervent in spirit, serving the Lord ;" it will teach " him that stole to steal no more, but rather to labour ;" it will teach the disaffected...

...usefully employed. ' Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might —Redeeming the time — Be not slothful in business, but fervent in spirit, serving the Lord.' 4. Is the time of human life so short? We may hence see the folly of laying up treasures upon earth....

...intrepidity, it is highly probable that he would have been assassinated. The apostolic injunction to be " Not slothful in business, but fervent in spirit, serving the Lord," seems to have been engraven on the heart and illustrated in the conduct of Kristno; who, whilst diligently...

...Spirit for the doing of it ! 0 inestimabile /acinus et prodigiosum ! God hath required us, that we be " not slothful in business," but " fervent in spirit, serving the Lord." Such we must provoke our hearers to be, and such we must be ourselves. Oh, therefore, brethren, lose...

...wasting the hallowed hours of the Sabbath in idleness. If, on ordinary occasions, we are commanded to be, not slothful in business, but fervent in spirit, serving the Lord, it is surely incumbent on us, on that day which God has consecrated to himself, to serve him with a...