...Socic-ties, by pouring their abundance into our treasury, loudly and practically say — "iii Jarge ' the place of thy , tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thy habitation: spare not; lengthen thy co:-ds," and strengthen thy stakes; for thou slink break forth...

...Lamb's wife, on the joyful event, Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud thou that didst not travail with child:...the children of the married wife, saith the Lord. Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare...

...cast out. In Isaiah, 54th chapter, it is written : "Sing, 0 barren, thou that didst not bear," &e., "for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the Lord." This is a prophecy of the Lord's coming, when the Gentiles, who were barren of good and truth, because...

...little has she done for the regeneration of those within her border, that it has been said of her—" More are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the Lord." Now, all that is recorded of the church as the covenanted wife of the Lord, and of her having, in several...

...nature, receiving from her in reply, as a happy father from his beloved, a family of beautiful ideas. ' More are the children of the desolate than the children of the married.' For in so attaching ourselves to nature, whether through the medium of science or of poetry, we enjoy...

...all to rejoice at this ; Sing, 0 barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing and shout aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate, than of the married wife, saith the Lord. Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the...

...conversion of the Gentiles, in words addressed to the Jewish church, as the emblem of the Christian. " Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of "thine habitations." Or, as the words are more significantly rendered in a late translation, — " Let the canopy of thy...

...uncircumcision.^]" " Salvation is come unto the " Gentiles."** " Sing, O barren, thou that didst " not bear ; for more are the children of the " desolate than the children of the married wife. "If This is sufficient to evince that " grace and truth " came by Jesus Christ." It only remains to...

...all." Wherefore it is written, " Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear ; " break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that " didst not travail with...the children of the " married wife, saith the LORD." Isa. liv. 1. Gal. iv. 27. TWENTY-THIRD DAY.— EVENING PRAYER. PSALM CXIV. it. ARGUMENT. This is another...

...bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail uiiii child: for more arc ryp @0 1. ; them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cord-, and strengthen...