 | Congregational Churches in Connecticut. General Conference - 1877 - 232 pages
...Wolcott, Jr., from Windsor, was there taking notes. From the text, Dent, i, 13, "Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you," the preacher deduced these three heads of "doctrine." I. "The choice of public magistrates belongs... | |
 | Walter John Trower (bp. of Gibraltar.) - 1877 - 426 pages
...How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife ? 13 Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you. 14 And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do. 15 So I took... | |
 | Reformed Church in America. General Synod - 1877 - 624 pages
..." Give out from among you three men from each tribe, to go through the land." " Take you wise men, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you." The accomplished Kichard H. Dana of Boston, in a late lecture, referred the principle of elective representation... | |
 | Henry V Dexter - 1878 - 484 pages
...you. ) How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden and your strife ? Take ye wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you. And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken, is good for us to do. So I took the... | |
 | Thomas Fearnley - 1878 - 276 pages
...!) How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife ? Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you. And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do. v. 16, 17. And... | |
 | Helen Ainslie Smith - 1901 - 540 pages
...in his celebrated Constitution Sermon from the first chapter of Deuteronomy : " Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you." Therefore, he said, " the choice of public magistrates belongs unto the people by God's allowance,... | |
 | Alfred Mathews - 1902 - 384 pages
...claim upon an impregnable basis. He spoke from the text, Deuteronomy i, 13-15 : " Take you wise men, and understanding and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you . . . captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, over fifties, over tens," etc. ; and with... | |
 | Sanford Hoadley Cobb - 1902 - 570 pages
...able men, such as fear God, men of truth ... to be rulers ; " and Moses' command, " Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you." Presently, the " General Court " was established, consisting at first only of the governor and four... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - 1902 - 442 pages
...consent of the people," he had said, preaching to them from Deuteronomy, i. 13 ("Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you") ; and it is best that it should be so, for "by a free choice the hearts of the people will be more... | |
 | Alfred Mathews - 1902 - 382 pages
...claim upon an impregnable basis. He spoke from the text, Deuteronomy i, 13-15 : " Take you wise men, and understanding and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you . . . captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, over fifties, over tens," etc. ; and with... | |
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Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you. 
