...such objectors as these would have said to the prophets Isaiah and Jeremiah ; the former complains, ' I have laboured in vain, and spent my strength for nought and in VHJU.' ' Who (he asks) hath believed our report, and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed...

...an ambitious young man, who delivered a very eloquent and In his own congregation, small as it was, a number claimed him for their spiritual father : and others acknowledged him to he the helper of their faith and joy. Nor was it only at home that he was instrumental in doing...

...The language of Christ, given prophetically by Isaiah, suits this aspect of his personal ministry. ' I have laboured in vain, and spent my strength for nought, and in vain : yet surely iny judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God.' The fact that God is near; that...

...other faithful ministers of the Gospel was compelled in many instances to adopt the mournful strain, " I have laboured in vain, and spent my strength for nought and in vain ;" and we shall not easily forget the mingled tone of grief and compassion with which, in our hearing,...

...minds." When you are grieved with the hardness of your scholars' hearts — when you are ready to say, " I have laboured in vain, and spent my strength for nought and hi vain," — remember who had to say this before you. Consider him. When, in your unnoticed visitations,...

...glory to God in the salvation of his people. But pointing to the unbelief of the Jews, he complains, " I have laboured in vain, and spent my strength for nought, and in vain." The answer to this complaint is a prophecy similar to that in the Morning Lesson, but summed up in...

...a preacher's life ; this dulleth his hopes, this weariethand trieth him ; this maketh him to say, ' I have laboured in vain, and spent my strength for nought;' and this hath broken many of their hearts." WL A BANK OF ENGLAND NOTE. ON the 14th of February the rev....

...burn and waste ; and when all is done, they must sit down and say, " Who hath believed our report ? I have laboured in vain, and spent my strength for nought and in vain." Whence is all this, but that man has fallen under the curse, and it mars whatever he goes about to...

...able to collect any thing more of the twenty-seven dollars which are really my due. When I sadly say, "I have laboured in vain, and spent my strength for nought and in vain," a voice within my heart seems to respond, " Yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with...

...Formerly, a retrospect of his toils imparted no joy to his heart, and he was ready to exclaim, " Surely I have laboured in vain, and spent my strength for nought and in vain : " but the tidings of Titus had the same effect on him which the tasting of the honey had on Jonathan...