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. Whatever power can afford to rest, the power of evil never grows weary.3. "Let us not be weary for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not." 1 The love of sin. It is evident the apostle referred not first to his labours. 13, 15), or a regulative principle of Christian life (Gal. But if we walk in light, or righteousness, then we have communion with the Father and His Son; and, cherished by the rays of Divine light from the Sun of Righteousness, graces spring up, and virtues flourish in our lives, as the tender herb with the fostering warmth and dew of heaven.5. AugustineOf the Work of Monks. (3)Want of order and discipline in the school.3. Thomas, D. D.)I. On the other hand, "well-doing" exacts a perpetual conflict with the evil tendencies of our nature. Seek to understand the hidden laws of that outward and inward life. In this busy working world, the inactive, the disappointed, the weary, are soon trodden down and destroyed.2. vi. ITS NATURE.1. underneath is the pure white of immortality. (2)Others fear that it will prove a failure. (Admonition 28.) A. THE RESULT OF WELL-DOING WILL COME IN THE PROPER TIME.1. To be engaged in doing good is to sympathize with the feelings, and to imitate the conduct of all God's saints on earth. 14. Hope breeds patience, and patience breeds perseverance. I can hardly wonder that the best stand appalled before the mass of the misery and sin of society. They toiled a good while and got nothing. Action is at once the destiny and the lot of man. "Well-doing." See Westcott's account of it, On the New Testament Canon, p. 498 ff. . It was when Peter looked on the waves that he began to sink.2. Clay Trumbull The pious Quesnel says that "God Edward M. BoundsThe Essentials of PrayerExcursus on the Use of the Word "Canon. Faith keeps from fainting; faith gives a substance to things not seen, and makes them to be as it were present, As a perspective glass makes those things which are at a distance near to the eye, so doth faith: heaven and glory seem near. From this post he was called to Central Congregational Church, Brooklyn, with but one exception the largest Congregational Church in the United States. See Westcott's account of it, On the New Testament Canon, p. 498 ff. He has VariousThe World's Great Sermons, Volume 10On Mysteries --God Gives them Here in Reality. Our sentiments may embrace the beyond, our opinions, actions, plans, purposes are too much controlled by the example set us by the men whose creed is "let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die." Action is at once the destiny and the lot of man. If left to itself--to the undisturbed development of G. But if we walk in light, or righteousness, then we have communion with the Father and His Son; and, cherished by the rays of Divine light from the Sun of Righteousness, graces spring up, and virtues flourish in our lives, as the tender herb with the fostering warmth and dew of heaven.5. A Due Reaping. The reasons which should move us to endure. underneath is the pure white of immortality. An active creature as man is, there is still in him a love of ease, of repose, of luxurious rest. The second thing to regard is, the manner in which this duty is to be performed; that is to say, unweariedly: "Let us not be weary in well-doing." From this post he was called to Central Congregational Church, Brooklyn, with but one exception the largest Congregational Church in the United States. To bear the conditions of Christ is something far greater than merely to consider those conditions. WE HAVE ABUNDANT ENCOURAGEMENT IN THE PROSPECT OF REWARD.1. Brethren, it is true with regard to the world, "so long as thou doest well to thyself, men will speak good of thee;" it is true with regard to God, so long as you do well in His sight, shall you have His sanction and His smile.1. A. To restrain natural passions and propensities.3. 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. From this post he was called to Central Congregational Church, Brooklyn, with but one exception the largest Congregational Church in the United States. A MOTIVE TO WELL-DOING. Angels are always engaged in well-doing. The second persevering grace is hope. It is always associated with great difficulty. H. Spurgeon.s: I. Now, the duty of "well-doing" embraces much of inner thought and of outward action; it embraces every Christian virtue that can be mentioned every good work that is worthy of the name; and among the many good things it includes, it most assuredly numbers among them the duty of supporting, of advancing the interests of "the house of God," as a means to an end, as an agency which the Almighty is pleased to adopt for the accomplishment of His own Divine ends, whether in the way of His Spirit or of His providence. (1) We are not necessarily so because our affections are not so lively as they once were. What the injunction "to grow in grace" does not mean. 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. So in His "own season" that is, the season which is peculiarly adapted for the purpose; the season which God knows to be the most appropriate; the season that shall best fit in to all the other declarations which God shall make of His majesty, His justice, and His power, as well as His love, His mercy, and His grace: at that time "we shall reap, if we faint not." Clay Trumbull The pious Quesnel says that "God Edward M. BoundsThe Essentials of PrayerExcursus on the Use of the Word "Canon. The words have not been taken in the same sense by all, a fact that obscures their sense. And then Satan rushes in, while the mind is thus exercised; and he says "What can such a wretch as you effect? In all the well-doing of the Christian, in all the toil of the earnest worker for God, there is alliance with the power of the Holy Spirit, and with the purposes of God; and it would seem that the sovereignty of God has included the labours of man in its own far-reaching penetration. There is infinite goodness in this arrangement, inasmuch as it opens to us one of the richest sources of happiness; for what joy is comparable to that of bringing joy to others?II. He shows what they intend that preach circumcision.14. The full harvest hereafter. Direct you to the motive adverted to by the apostle. He began to shovel it away, but there seemed to be such a mountain of it he threw down his shovel in despair saying: "I can never clear away all that snow." H. 1. Lift up Rev. Have strong faith in the promises: "My word shall not return unto Me void it shall prosper" (Isaiah 55:11). Merry. Opportunities are few; and if we would do good, they must be seized. 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. The only proper prayer in such a case is, Lord, hold up our goings in a safe path; for if one slips all of us may perish.'"--H. )Perseverance in well-doingJ. (3)Mere duty.These will engender disappointment and therefore weariness.IV. Take heed of those things which will stop the current of tears. II. Listen to what Job says: "When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. )The weary well-doersJ. . True, the prospect may appear to us far off, though to some it may be nearer than they think.(W. Does any one ask, "Why is this what are its causes?" Unreasonable expectations of an immediate harvest.4. A. (3)The training of real home missionaries. The undying activity of the world. (5)Satan and the world will be against us, so that we must fight and wrestle even in doing good. M. Punshon, D. D.)Be not wearyJames Sherman.I. He who loves the world, is never weary of following the world; he who loves God will never be weary of serving Him" that is the reason why the saints and angels in heaven are never weary of praising and worshipping God; because their love to God is perfect, and love turns service into delight. "Well-doing." The expression there is the same that is found here; His own Father; God was His own Father. Besides, difficulties are just nothing to Omnipotence. D. Watson.It is a beautiful sight to see silver hairs crowned with golden virtue. There are abundant opportunities for everybody.3. Being invited to tea by Madam de Vassenaar (one of the first quality in the Hague), I waited upon her in the afternoon. Get the love of God in your hearts, and you will run in His ways, and not be weary.(T. The original sense, "a straight rod" or "line," determines all its religious applications, which begin with St. Paul's use of it for a prescribed sphere of apostolic work (2 Cor. WELL-DOING IS POSSIBLE THROUGH AIDS OFFERED IN THE GOSPEL. (3)Reaping is your reward, but sowing is your work.II. R. Reynolds, B. Believer! )The importance of well-doingC. fastened in it you are dead while you live. Brown, B. If the least of us could only anticipate the eternal issues that will probably spring from the humblest services of faith, we should only count our sacrifices and labors unspeakable heritages of honor and opportunity, and would cease to speak of trials and sacrifices for God. Not entirely of course, but too much. These duties are called well-doing, because in a conscientious observance of them we do well; we comply with the approving will of God. Varying ideas have been attached to them. (1) And in the first place, we are bound to regard the bodies of our fellow-creatures. The weariness in well-doing, against which we are here guarded, ordinarily begins in the less of that relish for Divine things, and that pleasure in the ways of God, which the person may have had in days past.II. All the conditions of his existence are training for his activity. "In due season, we shall reap if we faint not." Social duties and relationships.4. It represents the element of definiteness in Christianity and in the Philip SchaffThe Seven Ecumenical CouncilsHow the Married and the Single are to be Admonished. AugustineAgainst LyingOn Account Then of These Either Occupations of the Servants of God17. The sculptor may die, and his bust half finished be his most significant monument. Opportunities are few; and if we would do good, they must be seized. 1. In this busy working world, the inactive, the disappointed, the weary, are soon trodden down and destroyed.2. "Be not weary in well-doing." Live in unseen communings.II. Two men were digging for gold in California once. Conditions of growth in grace. Attempts to do too much.3. THE ARGUMENT USED TO DISSUADE US FROM IT.1. It was when Peter looked on the waves that he began to sink. These are of great extent; they are many in number, and important in their nature. A day is hastening on, when works, and not wishes, or projects, will determine your eternal reward. To enkindle the mind, to enlarge the heart, to awake the imagination, these will be spiritual results to ourselves, worth while surely. The reasons which should move us to endure. Keep Christ in full view. How soon does a spirit of weariness creep over us in our spiritual career. A right apprehension of these will make the observations advanced respecting the canon and its formation plainer. For see what the individual who has to instruct the human mind, has to contend with. He began to shovel it away, but there seemed to be such a mountain of it he threw down his shovel in despair saying: "I can never clear away all that snow." For those who are bound in wedlock are to be admonished that, while they take thought for each other's good, they study, both of them, so to please their consorts as not to displease their Maker; that they so conduct the things that are of this world as still not to omit desiring the things that are of God; that they so rejoice in present good as still, with earnest Leo the GreatWritings of Leo the GreatForms Versus Character'Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.' The sixteenth chapter of the second book of that memorable review of his literary career, contains corrections of certain points on which he believed that he had not been sufficiently accurate in these discussions. )PeopleGalatians, PaulPlacesGalatiaTopicsAbate, Courage, Desponding, Due, Faint, Faint-hearted, Grain, Grow, Harvest, Heart, Lose, Proper, Reap, Reward, Season, Tired, Weariness, Weary, Well-doingOutline1. It may be found in the wide waste of sands, in the vast wilderness, where the tent of the pilgrims is erected, and from beneath the spread of its canvas may be heard the earnest breathings of a humble and contrite spirit. When it comes it will abundantly repay us.The present reward is (1)The conversion of the children. The weariness in well-doing, against which we are here guarded, ordinarily begins in the less of that relish for Divine things, and that pleasure in the ways of God, which the person may have had in days past.II. To restrain natural passions and propensities.3. It must be remembered, that celestial honours await only the faithful unto death. Christ has become the power of God to us.1. What was the issue of his labours amongst the Gentiles and Jews? A. Yet he was not weary in well-doing.II. said Elisha to Gehazi his servant. Differently to be admonished are those who are bound in wedlock and those who are free from the ties of wedlock. Hope animates the spirits: it is to the soul as cork to the net, which keeps it from sinking. Only a few weeks elapsed when ten of the twelve young ladies openly professed faith in Christ.4. Now mark, brethren, what the text says, "Let us not be weary in well-doing." vi. He sees the triumph of all that you struggle for, the defeat of all that you hate. It is hard to deal with hard cases; but when we have struck the water of life in any one, after that we have overflowing remuneration even here.(H. Yet he was not weary in well-doing.II. We learned from Numbers vi, GOD'S requirements of those who desire to take the privileged position of separation to Himself. God acts not without a plan.3. There is good and solid reason why we should be so admonished. My Father worketh hitherto, and I work."3. Constancy and perseverance. The lesson of constant, patient, Christlike effort, learnt once, is learnt for eternity. A. (4) Because there is an end which will fulfil all our hope for humanity in sight. We will not know the Lord as we ought if we go without sound teaching. She made no effort to drown the voice of her companions, neither was she disturbed by their noisy discord; but patiently and sweetly she sang in full rich tones; one after another yielded to the gentle influence, and before the tune was finished all were in perfect harmony." He could see that his own season might not be God's season. There are nine hindrances of mourning. Was it not love, to fill the universe with animated beings, and to pour the riches of beauty and happiness over creation? They toiled a good while and got nothing. Spasmodic virtue and charity are easy enough and cheap enough. Varying ideas have been attached to them. 9). 9). M. Merry.I. What the injunction "to grow in grace" does not mean. AugustineOf the Work of Monks. 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