...opened them about a week ago, not knowing what book it was, when these dreadful words met my eye—' And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine...prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood." —" But had you continued reading a little farther," returned the vicar, " you would have found these...

...altar, О Lord." And that praver is not an atonement for a sinful life, or a substitute for a morn! onf, hear the language of God to the Jews in the days of...only pray and sin too, but make the one a cloak for die other. The Pharisees devoured widow's houses, and for a pretence made long prayers. But in many...

...When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hands, to tread my courts ? . . . . When ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine...will not hear : your hands are full of blood. Wash ye ; make you clean ; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes : cease to do evil : learn...

...and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me: I am weary to bear them. 9 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine...prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. ^f10 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes ; cease to do...

...Your appointed feasts my soul hateth : They are a trouble unto me : I am weary to bear them : Andwhen ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes...full of blood: wash you, make you clean, put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes : cease to do evil, learn to do well; seek judgment ;...

...appointed feasts my soul hateth : they are a trouble unto me ; I am weary to bear them. And when you spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from...yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear." And this solemn reproof and condemnation are followed up with an affecting delineation of the practical...

...and your appointed feasts my soul hateth : they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them. And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine...prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood." 2. Another practical remark arising from this subject is, that there is in the heart a natural tendency...

...entering into the ears of the Lord God of Sabaoth ; and what answer can we expect to our formal prayers ? "When ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine...prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood."' ' Then,' said I, ' you really consider the cruelties perpetrated upon the brute creation to be one...

...moons, and your appointed feasts, my soul halctk, they are a trouble to me ; I am weary to bear them and when ye, spread forth your hands, I will hide mine...prayers I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.' O Miss Durvan! whose blood here demandeth vengeance? Not the innocent blood of goats or rams, for this...

...pronounced by the Almighty against offenders of old shall not be declared against him also? (Isa. i. 15) " When ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine...prayers, I will not hear : YOUR HANDS ARE FULL OF BLOOD. The " man of honour" ought to be quite certain that such a fate never CAN await him, for the eternal...