...of Sabbath-desecration who, if the thing had been foretold a few years ago, would have indignantly said, " Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing ? " But, alas ! the abhorred event is accomplished. The sin of pandering to the Sabbathbreaking propensities...

...such terms ? MARY. Oh no, Mama; believed he would ever do them. He was quite angry at the idea, and said, " Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing ?" MAMA. Elisha's answer, my dear, simple as it was, might have been both a solemn rebuke to his presumption,...

...prophet told him what God had revealed to him of the sins which he should shortly commit ; but Hazael said, " Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing?'' He departed. The next day Hazael became the murderer of his master, and the usurper of his throne1....

...towards the children of Israel, thinking it then impossible that he ever would be guilty of them, he said, Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing. And Elisha answered, The Lord hath showed me, that thou shall be king over Syria. This answer explained...

...Lord is the strength of our life, of whom then shall we he afraid." (13). 2 KINGS viii. 13. And Hazael said, Is thy servant a dog that he should do this great thing 'f HE did it nevertheless, so deceitful is the heart of man ! When sent by his master Benhadad, king...

...any euch measures, I had his leave to set him down for everything wicked. Like Httzael, he might have said, ' Is thy servant a dog that he should do this great thing Г So little do men know of themselves, and so dangerous is it to make one false step. Many a man,...

...their strongholds wilt thou set on fire, their young men, women, and children, wilt thou slay." "Hazael said, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing? Elisha answered, The Lord hath showed me that thou shalt be king over Syria." Hazael went from the...

...throne— put off humanity — put on tyranny, and became all that the prophet predicted. And though he had said, "Is thy servant a dog that he should do this great thing ?" Yet, as an old writer observes, " The dog DID do it." Then we are too sensual to choose our" inheritance...

...that at that precise time no such possibility presented itself to her. Like Hazael. she would have said, "Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing ? " but as to what reason she could give her young friends for not accompanying them. She thought her...

...that they should ever have had place in their hearts, and have stained their lives, they would have said, " Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing?" Many who once knew God. and loved his people, are now in the ranks of the world, giddy and vicious...