...were apostolic principles and maxims which Mr. H. studied to imbibe and conscientiously to copy: "The servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle...meekness instructing those that oppose themselves." He conquered combatants by calmness and kindness: "In all things showing himself a pattern of good...

...of the Lord must not strive " — should be a man of peace, not contentions, not quarrelsome — " but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient....meekness instructing those that oppose themselves." The other topic to which you refer, is one of primary importance ; but it is so particularly within...

...qualifications, will sooner or later disgrace that ministry, and dishonour him-self. ' ' — Anonymous. The servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to .teach, patient (or forbearing ;) in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves ; if God peradventure will give...

...cause. And I would ever impress upon my memory and my heart the admonition of the apostle, that ' the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all men,' even opposers. And if, in any thing which I have written in this controversy, I have violated this...

...word of truth. But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes. And the servant of the Lord must not strive ; but be gentle...instructing those that oppose themselves ; if. GOD peradventurc will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth ; And that they may recover...

...plainly prescribed in 2 Tim. ii. 25, " In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves," for, " the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all men." To yield to their inlreaties would be criminal ; it would lessen the importance of religion ; it would...

...for it, as things stand between Be and my child, but to obey the injunction of the apostle, 'And the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all mon, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves, if God peradventure...

...may be kept out of the hands of Christian Teachers. What a strange comment on those words — " The " Servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle...men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing them that " oppose themselves," — is a bishop sitting in judgement on faithful and laborious preachers...

...may be kept out of the hands of Christian Teachers. What a strange comment on those words — " The " Servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle...men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing them that " oppose themselves," — is a bishop sitting in judgement on faithful and laborious preachers...

...truth. These things are not easily borne with a becoming temper: but remember it is written, " The servant of the Lord must not strive ; but be gentle unto all men; apt to teach, patient; in meekness inDirecting those that oppose themselves ;" — 2 Tim. ii. 34 — 26. Keep the lovely example of Jesus...