...if, with the clearest knowledge of the villain's purpose, you rush, with open eyes, into his snare. " Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird." My concluding admonitions, bearing equally upon servants of both sexes, go to enjoin a special regard...

...infidels. One grand device of the devil is to beget a disbelief in his own existence, for he knows that " in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird." Prov. 1 : 17. This done he springs his snare, and his victims " are taken captive by him at his will,"...

...infidels. One grand device of the devil is to beget a disbelief in his own existence, for he knows that " in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird." Prov. 1 : 17. This done he springs his snare, and his victims " are taken captive by him at his will,"...

...would employ the same means for two distinct ends. Birds know all their enemies, even the subtlest. " Surely, in vain the net is spread in the sight of any hird," says Solomon, and how well they know the hated owl and all its foibles. Birds and beasts, without...

...the thought of the sin spoils the pleasure of the bait, and they have no more relish for it—"surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird." (Prov. i. 17.) Yet the great weakness of the heart is sometimes forgetful; and a lingering desire runs...

...escaped as a bird out of tho snnre of the fowlers: tho snare is broken, and wo are escaped. Prov. i, parted cot from after tbem, to wit, the golden calves that icc Prov. Til, 23. Till a dart strike through ills liver; as a bird uaxteth to tho snare, and knowetli...

...If the animal were to see the trap, he would never be caught, he would flee from it ; therefore, " Surely ', in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird." The devil knows this, — he knows how to catch us, better than the game keeper knows how to trap his...

...by which the Christian traveller may avoid the many snares of the tempter and deceiver of men — " In vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird."* There, is such a thing as spiritual prudence; there is, also, the restraint or denial of self. These...

...grateful for any assistance our readers could give us. THE COLONIAL CONFERENCE. BY ALFKED MARKS. " Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird." — PROVERBS i. 17. Eeport of the Colonial Conference _ (Cd. 1299) is an extremely interesting document....

...States in this bill fools nobody. The next bill may take it all from the States by imposing conditions. "Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird." This bill contains a condition that each State must have a compulsory system of education. Gen. James...