 | Freemasons. Grand Lodge of the State of New York - 1890 - 600 pages
...man of that race; and it became more glorious in the eyes of the meanest of them to be a door-keeper in the house of the Lord than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. We are standing here to-night to rejoice in the completion of a symbolic Temple, as well as one of stone... | |
 | 1896 - 226 pages
...Washburn, installed in 1890. Parsonage of First Congregational Church. f 'I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of the Lord than to dwell in the tents of wickedness." THE first Meeting House was erected near the old burying ground, probably between 1690... | |
 | Robert Mark Wenley - 1898 - 188 pages
...fault, from the only source whence anything at all is to be gained. It is " better to be a doorkeeper in the house of the Lord than to dwell in the tents of sin for ever." The opportunities of an Englishman are not those of an Armenian, and if he grumble at... | |
 | Theodore Emanuel Schmauk - 1899 - 236 pages
...entrance of an harmful or unclean person or thing. David said that he would " rather be a doorkeeper in the house of the Lord, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness." 3 In the division of 4,000 Levitical singers, on grand occasions, when a full band was... | |
 | 1899 - 588 pages
...Mark's Place, New York City. FROM THE DOOR-KEEPER. WARSZAWIAK MISSION. "I had rather be a door-keeper In the House of the Lord than to dwell in the tents of wickedness." Because it is "the House of the Lord," by the manifest operation of the Holy Spirit and... | |
 | George Walter Hinckley - 1902 - 140 pages
...doorkeeper — or as the margin has it, "would rather sit near the threshold" — the poorest seat — in the house of the Lord, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. ALWAYS PRAY. 1 THES. 5; 17 "Pray without ceasing." Christ spake a parable to the effect... | |
 | Elmer Hewitt Capen, Leo Rich Lewis - 1903 - 280 pages
...Jacob. Choir: For a day in thy courts is &?rter | than a | thousand. 1 1 I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of the Lord than to | dwell • in the | tents • of | wickedness. 1 1 A | MEN. || T Then the Minister shall say : DEARLY beloved brethren, the Scripture... | |
 | Halford Edward Luccock - 1916 - 212 pages
...Movement. Why not be doorkeepers? We think of the confession of David, "I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of the Lord than to dwell in the tents of wickedness," as a beautiful statement of the truth that even the lowest place in the service of God... | |
 | George Henry Gerberding - 1916 - 224 pages
...gates 0 Jerusalem." "A day in thy courts is better than a thousand." "I would rather he a door-keeper in the house of the Lord than to dwell in the tents of wickedness." The Puritans of New England for several generations were great church-goers. The Scotch-Irish... | |
 | Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1920 - 338 pages
...There are greater and lesser poets and greater and lesser critics. But it is better to be a doorkeeper in the house of the Lord than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. Even a minor poet may prove his superior soulhood by serving as appreciative critic to... | |
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It is better to be a door-keeper in the house of the Lord, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. 
