...pleasure; wasted in selfish indolence and carnal ease ; consecrated to exercises of piety and devotion — the " work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;" it is thus "the days of the years "...

...commands us to be hopeful for the future ; and we may look forward to the time when a new harvest of the " work of faith and labour of love and patience of hope," 2 shall spring up from the seeds of Divine Truth, which were first sown on the shore of the Thermaic...

...8., " The breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation." 1 Thess. i. 3., " The work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope." Col. i. 4. 5., " Your faith in Christ Jesus . . the love which ye have to all the saints. For the hope...

...to increase faith, hope, and love; so if you can thereby trace in yourselves stronger evidences of the work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, your confidence will be increased, that he who hath begun a good work in...

...and put to shame those doubtful and dilatory scruples, by which we would fain excuse ourselves from the " work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope." Truly it well becomes your dull and drowsy formalists in religion, to criticise and coolly to condemn...

...be, to follow our LOBD in suffering and sorrow ; therefore let the sight of the stole remind you of the " work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope," (1 Thessalonians i. 3) which is required of the servant of CHBIST ; and consider, how, if only we will...

...will find a sphere for its exercise large enough to employ its powers, and a blessing according to the " work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope." JOHN KITTO was born at Plymouth, December 4, 1804. His parentage was humble, and his father a dissipated...

...blessing. It is a live Church, in every best sense of the term; and its progress will be onward. " The work of faith," and " labour of love," and " patience of hope," never can fail. On Saturday, 26 September, in St. Mary's Church, Burlington, at evening prayer, I confirmed...

...persevere, leaving first principles, and ever aiming higher, believing that he who has enabled us to begin the "work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope," will not forsake the purpose of his own hands. But we also hence derive a lesson of warning. As none...

...— in the free course afforded to its operations — and, above all, in its lively stedfastness in the work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope — the Lord has marked this mission with distinguished kindness. " Since the dates reported the last...