...Israel encamped on the plains of Moab, and, feeling the inspiration of the present Deity, exclaimed, " How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel !" Such, be it observed, was not the spontaneous utterance of Balaam's heart. He looked with an evil...

...and as certainly as the streams flow from the fountain head, might gratefully and joyously sing — " How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel." THE TRUE TEACHER. THE GREAT LESSON THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL IS TEACHING TO THE CHURCH. WHAT GREAT LESSON is...

...delusion uud imagination give place to the remonstrances of reason, how often would you hear them say, " How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel. Let me die the death of the righteous, and let u,y last end be like his.'' Ministers often mistake...

...to be one, while her house is ' divided against itself ; but will be constrained to acknowledge : ' How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob ; and thy tabernacles, O Israel !' ' And many people shall go and say, Come ye and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the...

...There shall I never be sequestered from the blessed vision of Christ, Godman !" They will cry out, How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob ! and thy tabernacles, O Israel ! The shout of a king is amongst w ! And, Lastly, Perhaps there are some here wearying before we begin....

...Israel abiding in his tents according to his tribes, the Spirit of God came upon him," and he exclaimed, "how goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel!" This arrangement of the tribes in their tents then represented that arrangement of the principles which...

...dwelling, and a tabernacle, or inferior kind. Balaam makes the same distinction (Numbers xxiv. 5), How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, And thy tabernacles, O Israel! whence I suspect, that by tents he means those of the chiefs, leaders, principals of the tribes; and...

...may they not exclaim in the language of the prophet when he looked upon the encampments of Israel; "How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel!" Extraordinary as were the successes of Methodism in the earliest periods of its history, they have...

...to a cedar. In Numbers, Balaam, seeing the tents of Jacob pitched in the plains of Moab, exclaims, " How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel : as the valleys are spread forth ; as gardens by the river side ; as the trees of aloe which the Lord hath planted ; and...

...'eminence, as thus orderly in their divisions and arrangements, Balaam, the false prophet, exclaimed, " How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob ; and thy tabernacles, O Israel ! As the valleys they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees which the Lord hath planted !" Nor...