...us in the name of the Triune God, I felt as Jacob did when he first found himself on holy ground, ' Surely the Lord is in this place. This is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.' I scarcely knew what passed, till I found myself...

...reached to heaven : and, behold the angels of the Lord ascending and descending on it. And Jacob said, Surely the Lord is in this place : this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven."—(Gen. xxviii. 12—17.) s 2 him, and also to his...

...your body by its deportment, mark the respect due to the altar, and to Him who is above the altar : surely the Lord is in this place : this is none other but the House of God, and the gate of Heaven. § * Eccles. v. 1. f P<aL xxix. 2. $ Levit xix. 30. Yet,...

...peculiar awe and reverence, like the patriarch at Bethel, who, on awaking from his dream, exclaimed, " Surely the Lord is in this place ; this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven." Does not the soul, quitting its secular remembrances,...

...Happy they, who waking from the dream of life on earth, and finding themselves there, shall say, " Surely the Lord is in this place, this is none other but the house of God, and this is heaven !" The felicity of such transcends our present capability of conception....

...also than honey, and the honeycomb," Ps. xix. 10, — to say of your devotions in a secret place, " surely the Lord is in this place, — this is none other but the house of God, and the gate of heaven," Gen. xxviii. 16, 17, — to say of worship, when a family...

...when two or three shall be gathered together in thy name they may be ready to cry with Jacob of old, " Surely the Lord is in this place : this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven." May all who shall assemble here offer to thee acceptable...

...little church which had become so dear to her, and with the patriarch of old was enabled to exclaim, " Surely the Lord is in this place : this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven." (Gen. xxviii. 16, 17.) The subject of the sermon...

...open field he sleeps. The vault of heaven alone is over him. God appears to him. He awakes and says, " Surely the Lord is in this place — this is none other but the house of God — and he named the place Bethel" — house of God." (Gen. xxviii. 11 — 19.) Now,...

...the formerly despised name of Jesus ; they conceived a sentiment like what Jacob felt at Bethel — ' Surely the Lord is in this place ; this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.' The number of persons who have fallen down under...