...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...

...remember, therefore, they are now in God's 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...

...striking scene which had 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...

...felt it aright, you would 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...

...of awe. Jacob 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...

...however short. "Agood man,"said John Smith, of Cambridge, a wise and eloquent scholar and philosopher, " finds every place he treads upon holy ground ; to him the world is God's temple,—he is ready to say with Jacob, ' How drearlful ù this piare ; this is none other but the...

...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...

...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,...

...are. Never did we feel so much as we now do cm entering any of our temples; "Surely tho Lord ia in this place— this is none other than the house of God— this is the gate of heaven." While we have this precious privilege of witnessing revivals all around us, we also hear of...

...the Lord, and was designated by the patriarch as the house of God. Surely, said he, the Lord is in this place ; this is none other than the house of God ; this is the very gate of heaven. But the house of which the Psalmist more immediately speaks, was the tabernacle...