...sighing, " If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning; let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy." And is there less intenseness of regard in Christians, towards Jerusalem which is above, and free,...

...rooms, when the house is all on fire. But a public spirit saith, " If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember...mouth, if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy ;" Psal. cxxxvii. 5, 6. His love is to the church as the spouse of Christ, and as to the body of which...

...rooms, when the house is all on fire. But a public spirit saith, " If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember...mouth, if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy ;" Psal. cxxxvii. 5, 6. His love is to the church as the spouse of Christ, and as to the body of which...

...remembrance of the desolation of Jerusalem. ' If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its cunning ; if I do not remember thee, let my tongue...mouth, if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.' It baa become an ordinance of their rabbins, in some places, that when a man builds a new house, he...

...from the interest of his cause ; that our vow is, " If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth ; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy." Thus burying our own petty interests in the cause of Christ, let us go forth, with the resolution of...

...judgment; (Matt. xii. 36 ;) say then, as David, when you are in conference, "Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chiefest mirth ;" (Psal. cxxxvii. 5, 6 ;) and then you shall find the truth of that, " A wholesome...

...citizens of Zion every one of them can cordially join in saying, " If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember...; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy."* — The degree of concern experienced by the children of God for the spiritual interests of Christ's...

...Though he himself was advanced and provided for, yet said he, " if I forget thee, О Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember...mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy." When the temple was dedicated, Solomon, in his address to God, had thus expressed himself: " If thy...

...he sees any idol preferred before him. The psalmist could say, If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning; if I do not remember...mouth, if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy. Similar must be our feelings with respect to Christ, if we would enjoy his presence. We must prefer...

...captives who were mingling their tears with the waters of Babylon: "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning ; if I do not remember...mouth ; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy." You live in a day of wonders. Your being, perhaps, has opened in the millennial morn. It is possible...