...stripes ;" nor can we who are very members incorporate of His holy Church pretend to ignorance of it. God is not a hard master ; " reaping where He has not sown, and gathering where He has not scattered ;" but having hedged us about with mercy, and enriched us with so many excellent gifts, He...

...righteousness he owes ; but this claim is strictly limited, and never goes beyond justice into rigour. " He is not a hard master, reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not » f strewed." His law is however unchangeable in its demand upon man for universal obedience, because...

...reconciliation. Men, while dictated by a carnal mind are dissatisfied with God ; they accuse him of being an hard master, reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has.not strawed. They think on the Almighty, but desire not the knowledge of his ways. They behold...

...the legal Right and moral Wrong of any man to claim as his own that for which he has not wrought — reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strawed. Justice to women. This is what the phrase means ; this is where the thing is truly wanted ; here is...

...by an enlightened public opinion ; and he that makes it, must be convicted of | being a "hard man, reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strewed." If the Little Miami Rail-Road had waited for private capital to subscribe the stock, the...

...administration of God. But we know that the ways of God are not " unequal ; " that He is not " a hard man, reaping where He has not sown, and gathering where He has not strawed." And our views of the Divine character must be essentially changed, before we can believe that God has...

...he who does not contribute his share to the public supply, is a pensioner on the bounty of others, reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strewed. And could all the indirect effects of intemperance on the industry, health, life, and ability...

...viii, 12.-) There is much comfort to be derived from this consideration. We have not a hard -jiaster, " reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strewed," (Matt, xxv, 24 ;) but one who makes all necessary allowance for our infirmities, and requires...

...You know that He has said that He knoweth our frame, and remembereth that we are dust, and that He is not a hard Master reaping where He has not sown, and gathering where He has not strawed. Do you think that He would require any more attention of you than He knows you can give ? Do you think...

...When we suppose that God requires of us more than He has given us the power to perform, we make Him a " hard Master, reaping where He has not sown, and gathering where He has not strawed," — a taskmaster, not a loving Father. He has set us our task now, and we find it a very hard one,...