...Friends and small meetings ; yet we may say, that the goodness, love, and presence of Him, who said, where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them, was oftentimes witnessed to be with us, blessed be his holy name. Oh ! that the...

...forbidding the observation of all places, he sends us to his own spiritual presence, saying, " Wheresoever two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them." (Matt. xviii.) And in another place, "Behold I am with you to the end of the world."...

...thoughts ; what was this but Omniscience ? Again, He was in Heaven even while he was upon earth ; " and where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them ;" — what was this but Omnipresence ? He therefore in whom Omnipotence, Omniscience,...

...his grace are spiritual blessings. "Lo! I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world ;" and " where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst," are promises fulfilled by the active agency of the third person in the ever blessed and...

...promise of the personal presence of Him to whom this more humble temple was now dedicated : ' Wherever two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them, and that to bless them.' (sic.) " The following Sunday was the one appointed for...

...of the LORD ; men shall call you the ministers of our GOD." We do not adduce the hackneyed text, " Where two or three are gathered in My Name, there am I in the midst of them ;" because the words do not necessarily refer to any besides the Apostles. This view,...

...the assembling ourselves together for the public worship of Almighty God, as the manner of some is. "Where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them :" " but without me ye can do nothing." — " What I say unto you, I say unto all,...

...could join them or two or three or four — but they had always enough to plead the Lord's promise, " Where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I," and confident in their Lord's presence, they ceased not to plead earnestly, and give Him no rest until...

...touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them." These words show the true Church has power in Heaven to secure three things : a...

...For God Incarnate here vouchsafes to dwell ; List the blest words, forth from His lips that came " Where two or three are gathered in my name, There am I ever present with the same," The worth of words like these e'en angels' tongues might tell. May every...