...was convenient, yet for love's iake, he rather besought him.1 " Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between my herdmen, and thy herdmen ; for we be brethren....depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left." Full richly did the Spirit of God dwell in this disciple, enabling him to exhibit that quietude and...

...with almost unexampled tenderness and humility to address his younger and far less amiable kinsman, " Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself,...go to the right ; or, if thou depart to the right, then I will go to the left." What forbearance, what generosity, what true nobility of mind was here...

...there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thine; for we are brethren. Is not the whole land before thee ? Separate...all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered, even as the garden of the Lord. So Lot chose the plain of Jordan, and journeyed eastward ; and Abram...

...to a preference, and said to his nephew, " Let there be no strife I pray thee between me and thee, for we be brethren. Is not the whole land before thee...depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left."* God looked with approbation upon this rare want of selfishness, and immediately rewarded it, by a renewal...

...light in them." What true greatness of soul, and what noble liberality are seen in Abraham of old. " Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and...depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left." With a lustre no less brightly and beautifully does this generous spirit shine in the large hearted...

...say to one another as Abram said to Lot when they were invading the territory of the Canaanites — " Is not the whole land before thee ? separate thyself,...the right hand then I will go to the left " — and, on which occasion, we learn that, without opposition, " Lot chose him the plain of Jordan." * The few...

...say to one another as Abram said to Lot when they were invading the territory of the Canaanites — " Is not the whole land before thee ? separate thyself,...the right hand then I will go to the left " — and, on which occasion, we learn that, without opposition, " Lot chose him the plain of Jordan." * The few...

...be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen ; for we are brethren. Is not the whole land before thee ? Separate...depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left." In order to fit his people for the intercourse and enjoyments of heaven, the Savior strictly prohibited...

...say to one another as Abram said to Lot when they were invading the territory of the Canaanites — " Is not the whole land before thee ? separate thyself,...the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand then 1 will go to the left "" — and, on which occasion, we learn that, without opposition, " Lot chose...

...Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen ; for we be brethren. Is not the whole land before thee...left hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou wilt depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left." In the life of a Bedouin pastor, the concession...