 | George C. Crum - 1854 - 238 pages
...highest, on earth peace and good will to men." And how proper the anthem 1 "For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost." Accordingly, when it enters the heart it melts it into tenderness ; it subdues the will; it... | |
 | Gardiner Spring - 1854 - 326 pages
...congratulates itself in an empire decked with all the gorgeous royalty of this world, rather than one which is not meat and drink, but "righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost." The world has seen in recent treatises from the press, how such an imagination misinterprets... | |
 | Hugh Stowell - 1854 - 344 pages
...rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you." The epistles bear the same witness. " The kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost;" " Rejoice evermore; " " Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say rejoice;" " The peace of... | |
 | Thomas Whittemore - 1854 - 418 pages
...this belief? It is this : when I die I shall immediately go to heaven. 'Well, what is heaven? It ia ' not meat and drink, but righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.' Now, if a man embraces righteousness as the ultimatum of his belief, as the heaven to which... | |
 | George Cole - 1855 - 298 pages
..."What must we do?" They "repent, and believe the Gospel;" they learn by their own blessed experience that " the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but...righteousness, peace, and joy, in the Holy Ghost." But how is it with the rest ? " With reckless faith They trust the flattering voice Which whispers, ' Take... | |
 | Samuel Thomas Bloomfield - 1855 - 926 pages
...of the several particulars enumerated in the above passage of Rom. xiv. 17, ' the kingdom of heaven is not meat and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.' — Again, by Mo/t'i;, thus closely associated with xuP<z, may best be understood, not merely... | |
 | 1876 - 688 pages
...Christ said, " My kingdom is not of this world," and one of His apostles said, " The kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost." The Pope says that allegiance to him involves an unquestioning submission to all that hu declares... | |
 | Brownlow Maitland - 1877 - 220 pages
...vi. 1. s Rom. x. 12. 4 Acts xv. 9. * Gal. v. 6. 6 Gal. iv. 9, 10. ? Col. ii. 20, 21. Kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost." 8 The supreme graces of Christianity, ripened by its holy influences in the hearts of believers,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1878 - 362 pages
...be seen, but to be felt; and though it brings all substance of good with it, it does not consist in that: "the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost:" joy, that is to say, in the holy, healthful, and helpful Spirit. Now, if we want to work for... | |
 | Mary Wardle - 1879 - 336 pages
...in pieces all these kingdoms, and it is yet to overspread the earth. What is the kingdom of God ? it is not meat and drink, but righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost ; peace and purity are its elements, but as in the case of individual Christians, this is not... | |
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... the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost:" joy, that is to say, in the holy, healthful, and helpful Spirit. 
