"Even the youths shall faint and be weary but they that wait on God shall renew their strength" (Isaiah 60:30).4. Sunday School teaching is well-doing, because 1. Differently to be admonished are those who are bound in wedlock and those who are free from the ties of wedlock. III. Parkes Cadman is one of the many immigrant clergymen who have attained to fame in American pulpits. The human body, therefore, must be regarded. The word here employed does not bear on beneficence exclusively. The want of spirituality of mind.7. --1 COR. We grow languid sometimes in prosperity. (Essex Congregational Remembrancer. Further incentives to perseverance may be found in the peculiar and insidious character of the temptations to which well-doing is exposed.1. They started off arm in arm, and were saved. He could see that his own season might not be God's season. Some are later, too, than others; but the promise is sure, stable as the everlasting hills; sowing the seed, which "is the Word," will naturally produce all its legitimate effects. Watson.It is a strange sight, to see a busy devil, and an idle Christian.2. vi. This work is well-doing, because (1)It is in accordance with the will of God. So, then, two thoughts Alexander MaclarenExpositions of Holy ScriptureThe Owner's BrandI bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.'--GAL. "In due season we shall reap if we faint not" (Gal. The moral harvest comes all to perfection; not a grain is lost. We find Daniel, in the reign of Cyrus, saying "In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three full weeks; I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled." It was when Peter looked on the waves that he began to sink.2. v. 6. and to bear one another's burden;6. to be generous to their teachers,9. It is very important when we hear an exhortation to consider the character of the person who gives it. We know from experience, that perseverance, either with respect to earthly or heavenly things, is scarcely ever without success. Our ways of doing good may often be antiquated and cumbrous. D. Beecher. First, the rivalry of other workers forbids weariness.1. Yet he was not weary in well-doing.II. Now, from the sense of all this goodness, will not the man, who is not dead to every generous feeling in human nature, love the Lord his Maker and Saviour with all his heart, and soul, and strength? The Church is His body; His eye to see, His voice to cheer, His hand to lift and to heal the weakness and the misery of mankind. The weary and hopeless outnumber the careless, if one may judge by the eager throng which presses into the field when some direct, immediate good is set before them as capable of being done. Now mark, brethren, what the text says, "Let us not be weary in well-doing." Recollect that you are working together with a God who is unweariable.6. And to holy David indeed it might more justly be said, that he ought not to have been angry; no, not with one however ungrateful and rendering evil for good; yet if, as man, anger did steal over him, he ought not to have let it so prevail, that he should swear to do a thing which either by giving way to his rage he should do, or by breaking his oath leave undone. Get the love of God in your hearts, and you will run in His ways, and not be weary.(T. What the apostle means by his expression, "due season." How much is there to induce this spirit, and to render the exhortation against it appropriate. Because this evil, as described, is a fatal symtom of an unregenerate state. We find St. Paul praying thrice that the thorn in the flesh might be extracted, before he received that answer which caused his soul to thrill with holy joy. And it is no small mercy, to reap a lively heart, and a generous soul, and an affectionate spirit, and a willingness to labour in Christ's cause, as a reward for any little acts we perform for Him. (John Rodgers, D. D.)A dissuasive from weariness in well-doingEssex Congregational Remembrancer.I. The Christian owes his own salvation to unwearied love and infinite sacrifice.2. Let me say to you, "Be not weary in well-doing," because YOU HAVE THE MOST NOBLE EXAMPLES TO CONSTANCY AND DILIGENCE. (3)The training of real home missionaries. He suc-ceeded, and the exertion of helping to save his friend, kindled a glow of warmth in himself. Cultivate the grace of forbearance.3. vi. Having, then, assumed this, that we have learned to care for our own souls, and to regard our own immortal interests, the next point to be considered is, that we are bound to engage in "well-doing" for our fellow-creatures; for it is especially to this that the text refers. Watson. There is not a single relation we sustain to God, or to each other, but what is fruitful of a variety of these duties. I have done so much that at least I may be satisfied. 9). Patience, industry, and perseverance: are the three great elements of success in life. "(Bright: Notes on the Canons, pp. The human body is, as well as the soul, the purchase of the blood of Christ. The first principle of stedfast and abounding righteousness is a constant sense of the obligation of the Divine law. VI. The Apostle has been exhorting to unwearied well-doing, on the ground of the certain coming of the harvest season. Galatians 6:9 Let us not lose heart in doing good, for in due time we will reap if we do not grow weary. )Perseverence in religious duties enforcedG. L. Galton, M. A.I. Will not the love of Christ constrain him?3. If, then, we say we have fellowship with Him while we walk in darkness, that is sin, "we deceive ourselves," says the apostle. We cannot calculate the hour nor the nature of our triumph, but we know that the Word of God standeth sure, and that the due season draweth nigh.(H. vi. If you say a man is doing well, you mean to say that a man is increasing in his wealth, his influence, or his connections. As to the "WELL-DOINGS" of the apostle, scarcely any doubt can be left on the mind with reference to these, if we attentively peruse the records of his commission. An active creature as man is, there is still in him a love of ease, of repose, of luxurious rest. Weight, M. A.I. We often feel our unfitness and our unworthiness to be employed in doing good. 14. We find Daniel, in the reign of Cyrus, saying "In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three full weeks; I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled." It may be found upon the mountain's top, amid the sweep of winds and the wrapt curtain of clouds; where two or three are met together in the name of Christ to worship God, and to believe in the work of His redemption. Another of the hindrances to which "well-doing" of this kind is exposed, is the tendency of our machinery to wear out, and our own disposition not unfrequently to hurry it off the field. The love of sin makes sin taste sweet and this sweetness in sin bewitches the Thomas WatsonThe Beatitudes: An Exposition of Matthew 5:1-12Introductory. H. BeibitzGloria Crucis21ST DAY. (5) It is thankless work.2. Nor is this all there is the spirit of self-complacency. Conditions of growth in grace. We learned from Numbers vi, GOD'S requirements of those who desire to take the privileged position of separation to Himself. AugustineOf the Work of Monks. Some teachers get unstrung, and thus get into a slip-shod way. By its natural birth, from sinful parents, it is not in the kingdom of God, but in the realm and under the dominion of sin, death and the devil. First, that the fulfilment of the Christian vocation is connected with certain reward in the future. One lay down to die; the ether, seeing his awful condition, began to rub, chafe, and rouse him. )Perseverence in well-doingW. One lay down to die; the ether, seeing his awful condition, began to rub, chafe, and rouse him. The love of sin is like a stone in the pipe which hinders the current of water. At length his faith, his patience, and his submission received their rich reward: "behold, a certain man clothed in linen" appeared to him and said. So the girl looks at that great pile of music, as she begins her first lessons, and says: "Oh, I can never learn all that music." I pray you read them. "In due season ye shall reap if ye faint not." The soldier it is natural to him to be amongst bullets, and to mount up cliffs, in order to plant his standard upon castles and difficult places. One morning a man found the snow all piled up before his door. THE CHRISTIAN MAN'S VOCATION IN THE PRESENT WORLD, II, THE MOTIVE TO PERSEVERANCE IN IT, ARISING FROM THE ASSURANCE OF FINAL REWARD.I. (4) Because there is an end which will fulfil all our hope for humanity in sight. The love of sin is like a stone in the pipe which hinders the current of water. The insidious character of our temptations to weariness.IV. So, for instance, you remember he puts Alexander MaclarenExpositions of Holy ScriptureThe Glory of the Cross"God forbid that I should glory save in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ."--GAL. Brown, B. vi. D. Horwood.In the earlier days of Christianity, when it had to contend against the prejudices and intolerance of ages; when the bigotry of the Jew fiercely opposed it, and the philosophy of the Greek and Roman despised it, and when the bitterness of persecution grew up into greater fierceness, it was then that the earlier and devoted Christians, exposed to all manner of trial and death on all sides, had need of encouragement.I. By well-doing here we are to understand, in general, the duties we owe to God, our neighbour, and ourselves. Zeal is sometimes without knowledge, and zeal is often without patience; we look for the oak, without giving the acorn time to germinate; we desire to gather the cool and delicious fruit, forgetful of the preliminary processes of vegetation. My little nephew was out in the garden one evening with his father sowing peas; next morning he took a basket and was going out to gather the crop, and was greatly disappointed when told the peas were not yet grown. "We shall reap, if we faint not."2. So, for instance, you remember he puts Alexander MaclarenExpositions of Holy ScriptureThe Glory of the Cross"God forbid that I should glory save in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ."--GAL. It is like pumping a sinking ship. What it does mean. Text--But grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.--2 Pet. A. He was born in Shropshire, England, December 18, 1864, and graduated from Richmond College, London University, in 1889. We become discouraged and weary when we do not see immediate fruits of our labour. II. It is not enough that we being in the ways of God, that we set out in the paths of piety, but we must persevere in them; we must endure to the end; for he alone "that shall endure to the end, the same shall be saved."3. Or, as Paul puts it, you will reap what you sow. The word here employed does not bear on beneficence exclusively. The Christian has a persevering enemy to slay.2. Jesus Christ, to whom it is abandoned, and whom it follows as the Way, whom it hears as the Truth, and who animates it as the Life, impressing Himself upon it, imparts to it His own condition. YOU WILL MEET WITH EVILS IN YOUR SERVICE, AND BE LIABLE TO WEARINESS AND FAINTNESS.1. "Everything is beautiful in its season." On account of not seeing adequate results to our efforts. H. It is like pumping a sinking ship. (4) The measure in which the sorrow is mixed with sin. WELL-DOING IS POSSIBLE THROUGH AIDS OFFERED IN THE GOSPEL. (Admonition 28.) In these cases there is distress, indeed, but no disgrace; pity, but not scorn: but let a work be begun, and left through vacillation of purpose a great work be undertaken, and be unfulfilled through childish waywardness, and no wonder if they that go by "begin to mock," while the artificer is ashamed and distressed. "(Bright: Notes on the Canons, pp. At length his faith, his patience, and his submission received their rich reward: "behold, a certain man clothed in linen" appeared to him and said. Now there seem to be three important particulars suggested to us here.1. "Be not weary in well-doing," BECAUSE AN UNFINISHED ENTERPRISE, OR A WORK INCOMPLETE THROUGH INCONSTANCY IS BOTH A DISTRESS AND A DISGRACE. The painter may be paralyzed, and his unfinished canvas be the best expositor of his malady. Do the men of the world even respect a backslider? We learned from Numbers vi, GOD'S requirements of those who desire to take the privileged position of separation to Himself. HAS ITS DIFFICULTIES.1. In the same passage he informs us that this treatise was undertaken during the years in which he was occupied with his great work on the Saint Augustineour lord's sermon on the mountAll that is Born of the Flesh must be Born of the Spirit. AugustineAgainst LyingOn Account Then of These Either Occupations of the Servants of God17. And surely there is disgrace. M. Merry.I. 14. I say there is no change in the motives to diligence and duty, which abide as at first; and if, after having gone a little way, or a long way, in the course of well-doing, whatever its peculiar form, you have become weary, it is you who have altered, and not the course. V. What is not proof of growth in grace. "(Bright: Notes on the Canons, pp. Hope animates the spirits: it is to the soul as cork to the net, which keeps it from sinking. events were vitalized. My little nephew was out in the garden one evening with his father sowing peas; next morning he took a basket and was going out to gather the crop, and was greatly disappointed when told the peas were not yet grown. Well-doing is is the broad evidence of the Christian calling. Some teachers get unstrung, and thus get into a slip-shod way. God knows this tendency of man's mind, and has provided for it for what is there that does not change? Coming to this country about 1895 he was appointed pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Metropolitan Tabernacle, New York. Believer! Take heed of those things which will stop the current of tears. Sunday-school teachers may appropriate this.3. Differently to be admonished are those who are bound in wedlock and those who are free from the ties of wedlock. Reflect that the work and weariness will soon be over in that land of rest where we shall be burdened no more.(H. A MOTIVE TO WELL-DOING. Hope animates the spirits: it is to the soul as cork to the net, which keeps it from sinking. . For, setting apart that power, which he saith himself had not used, which yet that the faithful must serve unto, he enjoins, saying, "Let him that is catechised in the word, communicate unto him that doth catechise him, in all good things:" [2531] St. Let us inquire, what is THE NATURE OF THE EVIL AGAINST WHICH WE ARE GUARDED IN THE TEXT. Will not the love of Christ constrain him?3. (b)Particularly to children, for prevention is better than cure. )The difficulty of well-doingH. (2)If you don't sow the devil will. And this brings me to a third source of weariness and discouragement in well-doing our narrow and inadequate views of life. The same motives enforce constancy. Besides, difficulties are just nothing to Omnipotence. Then he picked up his shovel, and marked off a square, and began to see how long it would take him to cast that aside; then another and another, until the whole was cleared away. The first-fruits here. The fulfilment of the Christian vocation is connected with certain reward in the future. 6) in imprinting Himself on the soul, impresses the characters of His different states; and to bear all the states of Jesus Christ is far more sublime, than merely Madame GuyonA Short and Easy Method of PrayerGrowth in Grace. If we would not grow weary, let us pray for persevering grace. Watson. In that day, the least thing done will secure you a revenue of unspeakable glory; whilst the greatest thing talked of and planned only will bring you nought but disappointment and shame.3. "Let us not be weary for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not." SOME PLACES WHERE WE ARE LIABLE TO GROW WEARY.1. The insidious character of our temptations to weariness.IV. He despises what is mean, and abhors what is impure, with every false and wicked way. I will make my home in these pleasant surroundings. We are too ready to suppose that our exertions for the present and future benefit of our fellow-creatures are utterly without success, because we do not see the success. Does any one ask, "Why is this what are its causes?" Increases our power for well-doing.2. "The work of righteousness shall be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance for ever." In order to do this 1. If Paul could only know the consolation and hope that he has ministered to the countless generations who have marched along the pathway from the cross to the Kingdom above, he would be willing to go through a thousand lives and a thousand deaths such as he endured for the blessing that has followed since his noble head rolled in the dust by the Ostian gate of Rome. Weariness of mind and of body is common to most men. (3) The immense difficulty and intricacy of the work, and the evil it brings in its train. To restrain natural passions and propensities.3. But don't be "disheartened" (see Greek). 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