| 1885 - 728 páginas
...principle of the wise and tolerant Rabbi uttered more than 1800 years ago, "If this council or this work be of men, it will come to naught, but if it be of (rod ye cannot overthrow it." It is familiar to you all how this great benefactor was hounded from... | |
| Enoch Pond - 1886 - 700 páginas
...dissuaded them from it : " Refrain from these men, and let them alone ; for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to naught ; but if it be of...God, ye cannot overthrow it, lest haply ye be found to fight even against God." This good advice was heeded by the rulers ; and so, with another charge... | |
| Minot Judson Savage - 1886 - 116 páginas
...it always be so ? Were it not wise to heed the advice of Gamaliel ? " If this counsel or this work be of men it will come to naught. But if it be of God ye cannot overthrow-it ; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God." The real infidels in the past... | |
| Rose Terry Cooke - 1886 - 494 páginas
...concerning Peter and his brethren when they stood before the council: " If this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to naught: but if it be of God ye cannot overthrow it." So with a sense of strength the minister spoke. " My dear friends," he said,... | |
| Frances Elizabeth Willard - 1888 - 184 páginas
...and exhortation and comfort." Well said Gamaliel of this new dispensa" If this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to naught ; but if it be of...God, ye cannot overthrow it lest haply ye be found to fight against God." Let not conservative ecclesiastical leaders try -to steady the Lord's ark ;... | |
| 1888 - 572 páginas
...exhortation and comfort." Well said Gamaliel of this new dispensation : " If this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to naught ; but if it be of...God, ye cannot overthrow it lest haply ye be found to fight against God." Let not conservative ecelesiastical leaders try to steady the Lord's ark ; let... | |
| Laura Carter Holloway - 1888 - 558 páginas
...concerning Peter and his brethren when they stood before the council : " If this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to naught : but if it be of God ye cannot overthrow it." So with a sense of strength the minister spoke. " My dear friends," he said,... | |
| S. G. Burney - 1888 - 428 páginas
...meanest of polemic vices, and the chief stock in trade of "small critics." If " this work be of man it will come to naught; but if it be of God, ye can not overthrow it." " O my Father . . . not as I will, but as thou wilt." INTRODUCTION. The Infinite... | |
| James Gibbons - 1889 - 554 páginas
...here." Gamaliel gave the angry Pharisees a true test by which they could discern her true character: "If this work be of men, it will come to naught; but if it be of God, you cannot overthrow it." 1 Upwards of fourteen hundred years ago, St. Augustin proposed to the cavillers... | |
| Pardee Butler - 1889 - 368 páginas
...And now I say unto you, refrain from these men, and let them alone ; for if this connsel or this work be of men, it will come to naught; but if it be of God, ye can not overthrow it; lest happily ye be found even to fight against God." In the cause of a common... | |
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