...this term of his connection with the Belfast Circuit. It is furnished in the Autumnal Gleanings. But truly as the Lord liveth and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death.' So spake David in a dark, desponding hour ; so spake I once, to one nearer...

...from thence, being personally pursued by the king, he again sought the protection of Jonathan, saying, "Truly as the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death." At this point the circumstances forming the degree of Secret Monitor...

...found grace in thine eyes; ' and he saith, "Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be ' grieved : " but truly as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul ' liveth, there is but a step between me and death.' Then said Jonathan unto David, ' Whatsoever thy soul desireth, ' I will...

...way, and he could not alter it. He distressingly says to his beloved Jonathan on one occasion, "But truly, as the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death" (1 Sam. xx. 3). And again, he says in his heart, " I shall now perish...

...then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will we shall live, and do this or that. Truly, as the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between thee and death. " It is appointed unto men once to die. In the sweat of thy face shalt...

...I have found grace in thine eyes, and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this lest he be grieved; but truly, as the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but one step between me and death." To avoid giving pain to Jonathan he avoids implying or expressing that his father had...

...not so. But David answered, Thy father saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved ; but truly as the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death. Then said Jonathan to David, Whatsoever thy soul desireth, I will even...

...hiding his intentions from Jonathan. He closed his earnest presentation of his case by saying, "But truly, as the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death." Jonathan began to feel that his friend was right, and he said to him,...

...I have found grace in thine eyes; and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest h» M e'i"ved: but truly as the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death. 4 Then said Jonathan unto David, Whatsoever thy soul desireth, I will...

...with my words. 109 My soul is alway in my hand : yet do I not forget Thy law. Even as David said, " Truly as the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death," a death of violence, a death from persecutors. Yet, notwithstanding the...