...instrument to me to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel. 16. For I will show him how great things he must suffer for my name. 13. Lord, I have heard. In that Ananias objecteth the danger to the Lord, he bewrayeth his weakness...

...chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the people of Israel : For I will show him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake." These concluding words are indeed remarkable. They tell us that, in the eye of our heavenly King, the...

...would be with me as with the Apostle Paul, of whom our Lord Jesus said, speaking of his conversion : " I will show him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake."1 Having made up my mind to continue to stay at the Seminary, I was frequently visited by the...

...sent me." " He, therefore, that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God." LECTUEE II. ACTS ix. 16. " FOR I WILL SHOW HIM HOW GREAT THINGS HE MUST SUFFER FOR MY NAME1S SAKE." WE concluded the former discourse before we had reached the close of the wondrous circumstances...

...would be with me as with the apostle Paul, of whom our Lord Jesus said, speaking of his conversion : " I will show him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake." * Having made up my mind to continue at the seminary, I was frequently visited by the superior. As...

...chosen vessel unto me, to bear rny name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel. For I will show him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake." And Ananias went his way, and entered into the house : and putting his hands on him, said, " Brother...

...chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel : for I will show him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.' See also 1 Thessalonians iii. 3, 4. It was as a minister of the Gospel that Paul had to suffer, and...

...vessel of election, to carry my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel. For I will show him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake. And Ananias went his way, and entered into the house: and laying his hands upon him, he said: Brother...

...plains of Moab thirty days." These verses were sufficiently ominous, but worse remained behind : " / will show him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake" and pushing the trial still farther, they opened upon the burial of St. Stephen the proto-martyr. "...

...Christianity? It was not — I will crown him with honor and prosperity, with dignity and pleasure, but — " I will show him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake." What were the virtues which Christ chiefly taught in his discourses ? What were the graces he most...