...thing. — Hos. viii. 11, 12. Ps. cxix. 129. Behold, &c. I will send a famine, &c. not of bread, &c. but of hearing the words of the Lord; and they shall wander from sea to sea, &c. to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it. — Amos viii. 11, 12. Do not my words do...

...and my blessing upon thine offspring, Isa. xliv. 3. Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that 1 will send a famine in the land ; not a famine of bread,...to sea, and from the north even to the east ; they •hall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find if. In that day shall the fair...

...head ; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day. J 1 : 1 2 And they shall wander from sea ' sea, and from the north even to the iast, they shall run to...

...good works." " Behold the days b Bom. viii. 28. Ps. Izxiii. 3—9. lu. viii. 21. Rer. xvi. 9—1 1 . " come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine...but of hearing the words of the Lord: and they shall wan" der from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, " they shall run to and fro, to seek...

...tt, t2, we read, " Behold the days come. saitb the Lord God. that I will send a famine in the hind : not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord. And Uiey shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even unto the east: they shall run to and fro,...

...land," (which Surely is a dreadful judgment, worse than the sword, Lam. iv. 9. But what famine ?) " Not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord ;" this, this is the sorest judgment ; this judgment on the soul is the soul of judgments, when poor...

...the land' — and. surely, this is one of the heaviest afflictions that can be sent on man ! — ' not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord :' — the sorest of all famines ; because the word of the Lord, the hammer, the fire, is the grand...

...to the bodies of the poor, how much more hateful ought that system t« be accounted that' causes " a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but a famine of the word of the Lord." Dr. Campbell having fully proved the facts and the wickedness of...

...Rendering the former, by His might, An army for His cause to fight. 132 THE FAMINE OF THE WORD, '• Behold the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will...for water. but of hearing the words of the Lord." — Amos, viii. 11. O LORD, avert from us this day Of famine's fiercest strife; And take not from our...

...famine of the word of God," such as the prophet Amos foretold nearly eight hundred years before — Behold the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will...famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst of water, but of hearing the words of the Lord.* Long since we have seen the accomplishment of this...