...would agree with the fcope and defign of our Saviour's difcourfe ; but the inftances Which he gives of the fowls of the air, and the lilies of the field, which are fufficiently provided for without any care and induftry of theirs, and which he feems to fet before...

...are conceded, as will enable us in a great measure to cast off all care about temporal futurity, like the lilies of the field which "toil not, neither do they spin/' and to employ our time in the instruction of ourselves and families, in making suitable provision for...

...where nature had assigned it, as one of the ornamental performers of the time ! His station was with the lilies of the field, which toil not, neither do they spin. He should have thrown himself upon the admiring sympathies of the world as the most dazzling of rhetorical...

...invites such men to put their whole confidence in the providential supplies of GOD. He points them to the lilies of the field, which toil not, neither do they spin, and yet he assures them that the king of Jerusalem in all his glory, even Solomon, was not arrayed...

...its desuetude, as an effect, and in some slight degree a cause too, the women of our day have become the 'lilies of the field,' which 'toil not, neither do they spin, and yet even Solomon, in all his glory, was not arrayed like one of these !' We complain not that the...

...the more favored situations of clerks or students, and our wives and daughters too often vied with the " lilies of the field, which toil not, neither do they spin " — much to the profit of the shopkeeper and poverty of the farmer. I rejoice, however, to behold...

...where nature had assigned it, as one of the ornamental performers of the time ! His station was with the lilies of the field, which toil not, neither do they spin. He should have thrown himself upon the admiring sympathies of the world as the most dazzling of rhetorical...

...where nature had assigned it, as one of the ornamental performers of the time ! His station was with the lilies of the field, which toil not, neither do they spin. He should have thrown himself upon the admiring sympathies of the world as the most dazzling of rhetorical...

...turning over the leaves ; " here is one — the sixth chapter of St. Matthew — after speaking of the fowls of the air, and the lilies of the field, which God feeds and clothes, it goes on, ' Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to-day...

...was to find entrance — where all things were to be enjoyed in common, and mankind were to become as the lilies of the field, " which toil not, neither do they spin." To accomplish this, a colonial exchequer was the one thing needful above all others, and many means...