...cry continually for food. It teaches them to imitate those saints on the pension list, who are like the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin, and yet are arrayed like Solomon in all his glory. In fine, it teaches men a lesson which indeed they...

...upon things which the young, especially, are too apt to make the chief objects of their pursuit. ' Behold the lilies of the field, they toil not, neither do they spin ; yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these !' We are told of the ivory steps by which...

...shall take care for this also. They hear his voice, saying to them, " Why take ye thought for raiment ? Behold the lilies of the field ! They toil not, neither do they spin ; yet, I say unto you, that Solomon, in all his glory, was not arrayed like one of these ! " " Ye received,"...

...sparrows of the parable, We harvest not, and yet are fed. Third Voice. What said he more ? Second Voice. " The lilies of the field They toil not, neither do they spin, Yet all the robes that pomp and labour gild, And all the glorious garments wealth can win, E'en Solomon's...

...the air ; for they sow not, neither do they reap ; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Consider the lilies of the field ; they toil not, neither do they spin. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field which to-day is, and to-morro%v is cast into the...

...forgetting the cheering promises of God, 'Lo, I am with you alway, even to the end of the world.' 12. " ' Behold the lilies of the field, they toil not, neither do they spin, yet your heavenly father clotheth them.' The Bible, that invaluable book, is my solace; the life of my soul; the star that directs...

...authority of the Sacred Writers upon its side, and even our Saviour himself gives it the weight and the solemnity of his example. "Behold the lilies of the...argument of confidence in God. He gives us to see (hit taste may be combined with piety, and that the same heart may be occupied with all that is serious...

...(though personally we rather question the latter,) but they do not take the place of Fruits and Flowers. Behold the lilies of the field! they toil not, neither do they spin, nor have they any interest whatever in any Manufacturing Company ! They are utterly deficient in Bank...

...parties create nothing. I will not compare such delicate 'ladies to " stock upon a farm ;" but " like the lilies of the field, they toil not, neither do they spin." . They do no work, they create nothing useful, they make come neither food nor raiment nor fuel nor...

...and at last raise all who believe in Him to t,ho bloom and the vigour of immortality ? The flowers of the field, they toil not, neither do they spin, yet your Heavenly Father careth for them — and how much more careth He for you, O ye of little faith. O, it is kind in you, my brethren, to...