...larger and deeper the historical basis of our religious conceptions, the less will it be exposed to ruin "when the " rain descends and the floods come and the winds " blow." 2. This leads us in conclusion to notice one more characteristic of this period. It has been already...

...and deeper the historical basis of our religious conceptions, the less will it be exposed to ruin " when the " rain descends and the floods come and the winds " blow." 2. This leads us hi conclusion to notice one more characteristic of this period. It has been already...

...so, we need proving very much, and there is nothing like tribulation to put our piety to the test. When the rain descends, and the floods come, and the winds blow and beat upon our house, we soon find out whether it is founded on a solid rock, or on the shifting...

...stronger than a puissant arm raised to uphold what is wrong. A good foundation makes a building firm ; and when the rain descends, and the floods come, and the winds blow and beat upon that house, it will not fall, because its foundation is secure : But a house huilt upon...

...do more or less than these 'are not built upon my rock, but are built npon a sandy foundation ; and when the rain descends, and the floods come, and the winds blow, and beat npon them- they shall fall, and the gates of hell are ready open to receive them ; 14. Therefore...

...for. We all know what the foundation of a building ought to be. If erected on the sand it will fall when the rain descends, and the floods come, and the winds blow. But if built on a rock, it will remain sound. So of men. They who have no sure ground on which to rest...

...It is to be feared that the structure is, after all, but built upon sand ; and so may go to pieces when the rain descends, and the floods come, and the winds blow and beat upon it. Manufacturing pre-eminence, if it is the gift that nations desire most, is also that...

...and deeper the historical basis of our religious conceptions, the less will it be exposed to ruin " when the " rain descends and the floods come and the winds " blow." 2. This leads us in conclusion to notice one more characteristic of this period. It has been already...

...tempest-tossed sinners ! We may think lightly of it now, but in the corning day of gloom and wrath, when " the rain descends, and the floods come, and the winds blow." they only will escape who are sheltered there! — Philip Henry Gostse, in "The Aquarium," 1856. Verne...

...secure present results, and a non-doctrinal piety may for a time encourage and reward the attempt, but when " the rain descends and the floods come, and the winds blow, and beat upon that house it will fall, because it is founded on the sand." * The official sermon to...