...not in word, • the earne is a perfect mail, and able also to bridle the whole ' ody. 3 Behold, t we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us ; and we turn about their whole body. 4 Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they...

...conversation are extended, and the third chapter of James' Epistle begins to be verified, where it is said, " The tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth ! It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison." O my brethren, these things ought not...

...this natural fierceness may be discerned to be abated by the guidance of the tongue. VERSE 5. — Ecen so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a littla fire kindlcth ! Even so the tongue is a little member^] Here is the reddition of the si" militude....

...conflagration. Great effects not unfrequently flow from small causes. The apostle James says, see chap. iii. — "Behold also the ships, which, though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet they are turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth. Even so the tongue...

...iii. 9. Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; James, iii. 5. Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth...great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth ! 6. And the tongue is a fire, a werld of iniquity : eo i« the tongue among our members,...

...and which may be powerful to good, as our communications are good and charitable one to another. " Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they...turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governour listeth. Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things." " And every kind...

...word, which the Scripture often prefixeth to weighty sayings, to render them the more remarkable : " Behold also the ships, which though they be so great,...very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth." The right guidance of this single part is of such consequence to the safety of THE SPIRITUAL CHEMIST....

...raised up ? and with what body do they come ?" James the Apostle uses the word in the same manner. " Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they...may obey us ; and we turn about their whole body." If the gentleman would read Prof. Bush, whose work on the resurrection he admires, he would learn,...

...2. For the first example he selects the horse, and shows the manageableness of this noble animal. " Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths that they...may obey us, and we turn about their whole body." Here we have a large and apparently ungovernable animal to manage. We put a small bit into his mouth,...

...performing long and arduous journeys at a rapid rate ; and is most obedient to the hand of the driver. " Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they...may obey us ; and we turn about their whole body," (James iii. 3.) The Arabian horse is an animal of great interest ; he is beautifully proportioned,...