...been contemplating, and finds, among the friends of Jesus Christ, a mirror in every feeling breast. " As iron sharpeneth iron, " so doth the countenance of a man his friend;" and perhaps we may .add, without making any unwarrantable assumption, that the feelings of the soul...

...not deem it so, since I mean not to teach, bat merely, according to the sentiment of the wise man, as iron sharpeneth iron, so doth the countenance of a man his friend, to speak freely to my much esteemed Eliza., and in compliance with the precept of the Apostle, " to...

...not deem it so, since I mean not to teach, but merely, according to the sentiment of the wise man, as iron sharpeneth iron, so doth the countenance of a man his friend, to speak freely to my much esteemed Eliza, and in compliance with the precept of the Apostle, " to...

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...the woodland, the lay of the mother and the laugh of the child ; and, to use Scripture Ianguage, " as iron sharpeneth iron, so doth the countenance of a man his friend." Verily, he is in the right who uses for good—and only for good—the deathless attribute of sympathy...

...pious, aged, and established members of the church. This was a considerable disadvantage to him, for as " iron sharpeneth iron, so doth the countenance of a man his friend." Habits of activity and benevolence are seldom formed from merely reading; they generally arise from...

...striking together of a cold flint and cold steel, and there comes out fire : as, saith the wise man, ' Iron sharpeneth iron ; so doth the countenance of a man his friend.' In the latter of these, called conference meetings, the light which the Lord is pleased to cast on...

...discouraging doubts which perplexed his mind, and of many sad burdens which oppressed his heart. ' As iron sharpeneth iron, so doth the countenance of a man his friend b' And the sympathy, to say no more of it, which arises out of such discourse, prudently managed, hath...

...encounter the same kind of hostility, privation, and suffering, to which he had been exposed ; but, " as iron sharpeneth iron, so doth the countenance of a man his friend :" — three, in difficult circumstances, are more than proportionately better than one ; for, by the...

...indeed he engages one afflicted saint to comfort another, according to that significant expression, As iron sharpeneth iron, so doth the countenance of a man his friend : but God was pleased, in this extraordinary case, to employ the ministry of an angel. These holy and...