...Methinks the very walls might send forth a voice to rebuke the silence of our congregations ; " the stone cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber answer it." * We continue to present our supplication to the second Person in the Godhead, addressing...

...makest him drunken." " Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity ! For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it." But we anticipate here an objection. — " What!" it may be asked, " is every one who merely manufactures...

...austerities, he says, " My sins have all fallen into the sea." HABAKKUK. CHAP. II. verse 11. — " For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it." The margin has instead of " answer it," " or witness against." When a man denies what he has solemnly...

...austerities, he says, " My sins have all fallen into the sea." HABAKKUK. CHAP. II. verse 11. — " For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it." The margin has instead of " answer it," " or witness against." When a man denies what he has solemnly...

...denounced, of God against him. In the book of Habakkuk, the figure is carried still,'higher : ' The very stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it: Wo to htm that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity ;'3 and in that pathetical...

...covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil! Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting...wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it." The very house which he has built for his security shall reproach him for the grasping injustice of...

...Wo to him that increaseth that which is not his own, and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay; for the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it," Hab. ii. 6. 11. Before restitution, he is unworthy of the Lord's table, and included in the curse we...

...sometimes the creature is represented as reclaiming against the covetousness and wickedness of men. " The stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it." Hab. ii. 11. The whole creation is under the bondage of the sin of man, and has suffered by it immensely....

...his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the "power of evil ! 10 1 The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him : but woe to that man by wh aijainst thy soul. 1 1 For the stone shall cry out of the wall, rgufd with. * Heb. upon myrtpritof....

...That the altar in the wilderness was made of woodj Exod. xxvii. 1, 6. And also from these passages; " For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of wood shall answer it," Habak. ii. 11. " And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey...