...Christians meet and Christ is welcome, where the worshipers are constrained frequently to exclaim ' this is none other than the house of God, this is the gate of heaven !' Where brethren dwell together in unity, and each feels like a child at home — ' How decent and...

...contributing in return to animate their piety. Surely, he exclaims with the patriarch of old, " This is none other than the house of God, this is the gate of heaven." God is here of a truth : He has specially promised to be here : and though I know that He is accessible...

...impart to us the spirit of the Patriarch, when he said " Surely the Lord is in this place ; this is none other than the house of God, this is the. gate of heaven." In reading the inspired history of the Saviour's transfiguration, the first circumstance which naturally...

...Persons coming into such a family, with a serious tincture of mind, might well cry out, ' This is no other than the house of God, this is the gate of heaven.' Beside the ordinary and stated services of religion, occasional calls and seasons for worship were...

...exclaims, " How dreadful is Published at the request of the Lincolnshire Conference. this place ! this is none other than the house of God, this is the gate of heaven." Gen. xxviii., 17. And there are many persons who sympathize with him ; whilst others best express their...

...worshippers seemed so devout, that I said as Jacob on the plains of Padan-aran : — "surely this is none other than the house of God, this is the gate of heaven." The hymns, the prayers, and the sermon, were in harmony with this feeling; and as I listened, I thought...

...over this, either newly put up when the front was altered, or copied from an old inscription : This is none other than the House of God, this is the Gate of Heaven. ' Here again the strange taste of modern time shews itself. Surely the practice of 1700 years should...

...say with Jacob, " Behold, God is in this place, and I knew it not. How awful is this place ; this is none other than the house of God ; this is the gate of heaven." Whether you feel it or not, the Lord regards it. Scarcely can you have a more solemn account to render...

...been presented to him ; and he farther exclaimed, " How dreadful, or awful, is this place ! This is none other than the house of God, this is the gate of heaven." There was no building there except asimple stone or pillow, and yet this he likened to the residence...

...house, the place of his immediate presence, and say with holy Jacob, How dreadful is this place! this is none other than the house of God, this is the gate of hearen, Gen. xxviii. 17. Let them call to mind that the glorious Majesty which dwells here hates all...