...local brotherhood, extending local progress, and developing local faith ; and of helping every man to do his duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call him. * See the 'Reports' of the Metropolitan District Visiting Association (4, St. Martin's-place) for 1851...

...out of his dream to put on rags and loathe them; and thus will he grow up into a sour discontent of that " state of life to which it has pleased God to call him." We most seriously and earnestly, nay, solemnly, warn all people against this new tuition as a substitute...

...Christian soldier needs the word of God as much as his daily food. By its precepts he is taught to do his duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call him ; and by its promises he is encouraged and strengthened under. all his trials, and is enabled, by God's...

...safety," (Ps. iv. 8,) he goes to his bed, and rises refreshed and invigorated to discharge his duties in that state of life to which it has pleased GOD to call him. II. The Sabbath-Breaker. How very different is the conduct of the Sabbathbreaker ! When the sun has...

...cares, or engrossing worldly business, filling your thoughts. He who would get to heaven, must, in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call him, make it his first business. It must be your ruling desire ; your chief aim ; your one thing needful....

...family affection, would find in the free and loving discharge of the relative duties which belong to the state of life to which it has pleased God to call him, a mental discipline much more salutary than that which he has chosen for himself, and which is in accordance...

...not condescend to go into trade ; it does not occur to him that there is any obligation to seek to do his duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call him. He is a man of refined tastes and letters, and cannot condescend to help at managing his father's shop....

...cells or cloisters, pilgrimages or pennances. It teaches every man to do his duty, and to do it "in that state of Life to which it has pleased God to call him." Whilst, however, the Christian will not be slothful in business, his Christianity will keep him from...

...out of his dream to put on rags and loathe them ; and thus will he grow up into a sour discontent of that " state of life to which it has pleased God to call him." We most seriously and earnestly, nay, solemnly, warn all people against this new tuition as a substitute...

...in the words of the old Church of England Catechism, "learn and labor truly to get his own living in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call him," and what remains for him to do, and of time in which to do it, is of very small importance. Grey. You...