...always proportion the means to the end ; and it is as easy for Him to work by small as by great. " There is no restraint to the Lord to save by many or by few."1 Think of Jenner and vaccination ; of Howard and philanthropy ; of Xavier and Elliott, in missions...

...man hath, and not according to that he hath not : for, as it is said in another place of Scripture, There is no restraint to the LORD to save by many or by few ; and It is nothing with Him to help, whether with many) or with them that have no power : that is,...

...Church at the present crisis is the same — " Go forward ;" and why should we hesitate to do so? "for there is no restraint to the Lord to save by many or by few." But we have not only the command : we have also the promise that " our labour shall not be in vain...

...ours. We are well able to overcome it." We ask, then, for grace to be faithful to our trust. And as " there is no restraint to the Lord to save by many or by few," we would not ask for one Agent more than He wills to employ, or one shilling more than He wishes to...

...glory, neither the sense of our own j weakness, nor the power of our enemies should i dismay us; "for there is no restraint to the ! LORD to save by many or by few." We are not indeed warranted at present to expect miraculout interpositions : yet the feeblest instrument,...

...thoughts are simple. The Philistines are tincircumcised ; they have not the help of the God of Israel. " There is no restraint to the Lord to save by many or by few;" and this is the thought of Jonathan's faith, that fair flower which God caused to blossom in the wilderness...

...us go over unto the garrison of these uneircumcised : it may be that the Lord will work for us ; for there is no restraint to the Lord to save by many or by few." The armour-bearer was quite willing to go wherever his master led. Yet Jonathan wished to do nothing...

...us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised. It may be that the Lord will work for us. For there is no restraint to the Lord, to save by many or by few." How admirable! How worthy of all imitation and praise ! This was not the native courage of the warrior...

...mated by his son's piety, he would have argued like him, It may be that the Lord will work for us : for there is no restraint to the Lord to save by many or by few. Besides, the waiting the whole seventh day could have been no prejudice to his affairs ; especially...

...Him alone for help and deliverance Such words as these, " It may be the Lord will work for us, for ook him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Ph (v. 6), clearly prove a great depth of true faitli and genuine piety existing in his soul. Indeed,...