...assail them ? He urged him to the vilest crimes. Do they complain of successless exertion ? He said, " I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought." Have they irreligious connexions? "Neither did his own brethren also believe on him." Are their souls...

...of seeing my dear people attending to their eternal interests, that I may not have reason to say, " I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought." At the communion-table the same day, he said, ' Christians seem to expect that their views of Christ,...

...is, profitless for themselves, and for the good of others. And again, Isai. xlix. 4, " Then I said, I have laboured in vain ; I have spent my strength for nought and in vain ;" that is, when Israel had departed from the worship of Jehovah, and had been given up to the service...

...subjects, had received as yet but little or no Fulfilment. He exclaimed, by the mouth of the prophet, " I have laboured in vain — I have spent my strength for nought, and in Tain." The prospect, however, begins to brighten, as the solemn hour approached when he was to see...

...been requited with indifference, sometimes perhaps with scorn. He is compelled to say or to suspect, " I have laboured in vain; I have spent my strength for nought."* What a grievous wound to the spirit ! What a chilling damp on the fervent and dedicated heart ! But...

...of seeing my dear people attending to their eternal interests, that I may not have reason to say, ' I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought.' " At the communion-table, the same day, he said, " Christians seem to expect that their views of Christ,...

...assail them ? He urged him to the vilest crimes. Do they complain of successless exertion? He said, "I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought." Have they irreligious connexions? "Neither did his own brethren also believe on him." Are their souls...

...useless, he is often ready to lay down his commission at his Master's feet ; to say, ' I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain.'" My brethren, are there not some of you, who think uot of these things? who view the duties of the ministerial...

...the son of perdition, that the scripture might be fulfilled.''! But O how depressing to reflect, * ward ;"j to look back upon a ministry, not the " savour of life unto life, but of death unto death," and...

...and sink in trouble. The words of Christ from Isaiah xlix. 4. often occur to my mind. ' Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and in vain ; yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God.' But indeed, the following verse...