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CONTENTS.

THE DUTY OF BUILDING THE LORD'S HOUSE.

HAGGAI 1. 2, 4.

Thus speaketh the Lord of Hosts: This people say, The time is

not come, the time that the Lord's House should be built. Is it

time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house

THE JUDGEMENT ON NEGLECTING TO BUILD THE LORD'S HOUSE.

HAGGAI I. 5-11.

Now therefore thus saith the Lord of Hosts: Consider your

ways. Ye have sown much, and bring in little. Ye eat, but ye

have not enough. Ye drink; but ye are not filled with drink. Ye

clothe you; but there is none warm. And he that earneth wages,

earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes. Thus saith the

Lord of Hosts: Consider your ways. Go up to the mountain, and

bring wood, and build the House; and I will take pleasure in it;

and I will be glorified, saith the Lord. Ye looked for much; and

lo, it came to little; and, when ye brought it home, I did blow

upon it.
Why, saith the Lord of Hosts. Because of My House,

which is waste; and ye run every man to his own house. There-

fore the heaven over you is stayed from dew; and the earth is

stayed from her fruit and I called for a drouth upon the land, and

upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine,

and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth,

and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the

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THE ENCOURAGEMENT TO BUILD THE LORD'S HOUSE.

HAGGAI 1. 7, 8, 12—14.

Thus saith the Lord of Hosts: Consider your ways. Go up to

the mountain, and bring wood, and build the House; and I will

take pleasure in it; and I will be glorified, saith the Lord.-Then

Zerubbabel, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of

the Lord their God, and the words of Haggai their prophet; and

the people did fear before the Lord. Then spake Haggai, the

Lord's messenger, in the Lord's message to the people, saying, I

am with you, saith the Lord. And the Lord stirred up the spirit

of Zerubbabel, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people and

they came and did work in the House of the Lord of Hosts their

THE CONTRAST BETWEEN THE TWO HOUSES.

HAGGAI II. 1, 3, 4, 5.

In the seventh month, in the one and twentieth day of the month,

came the word of the Lord by the prophet Haggai, saying,—Who

is left among you that saw this House in her first glory? and how

do ye see it now? is it not in your eyes in comparison of it as

nothing? Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the Lord; and

be strong, O Joshua, the highpriest; and be strong, all ye people

of the land, and work: for I am with you, saith the Lord of Hosts.

According to the word that I covenanted with you, when ye came

out of Egypt, so My Spirit remaineth among you fear ye not.

THE SHAKING OF THE NATIONS.

HAGGAI II. 6, 7.

For thus saith the Lord of Hosts: Yet once, it is a little while,

and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the

dry land; and I will shake all nations; and the Desire of all

Nations shall come; and I will fill this House with glory, saith

the Lord of Hosts.

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THE SUPERIORITY OF THE LATTER HOUSE.

HAGGAI II. 8, 9.

The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine, saith the Lord of

Hosts. The glory of this latter House shall be greater than of the

former; and in this place will I give peace, saith the Lord of

THE CONTAGION OF EVIL.

HAGGAI II. 11-14.

Thus saith the Lord of Hosts: Ask now the priests concerning

the law, saying, If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment,

.and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any

meat, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No.

Then said Haggai, If one that is unclean by a dead body touch

any of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and

said, It shall be unclean. Then answered Haggai and said: So is

this people, and so is this nation before Me, saith the Lord; and

so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there

THE BLESSING OF CALAMITIES.

HAGGAI II. 20-23.

Again the word of the Lord came to Haggai in the four and

twentieth day of the month, saying, Speak to Zerubbabel, governor

of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth; and I

will overthrow the thrones of the kingdoms; and I will destroy the

strength of the kingdoms of the Heathen; and I will overthrow

the chariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses and their

riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother.

that day, saith the Lord of Hosts, will I take thee, O Zerubbabel,

My servant, the son of Shealtiel, and will make thee as a signet;

for I have chosen thee, saith the Lord of Hosts.

THE ANGEL'S MESSAGE.

LUKE II. 10, 11.

And the angel said to them, Fear not for behold I bring you

good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people: for to you

is born this day in the City of David a Saviour, who is Christ the

THE ONLY HELPER.

PSALM CXLVI. 5.

Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope

is in the Lord his God.

PHILIPPIANS III. 8.

I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of

Christ Jesus my Lord.

THE AWFUL ALTERNATIVE.

MATTHEW XII. 30.

He that is not with Me is against Me; and he that gathereth not

with Me scattereth abroad.

THE SWORD OF THE GOSPEL.

Think not that I came to send peace on earth: I came not to

send peace, but a sword.

THE CHRISTIAN WARFARE.

Think not that I came to send peace on earth: I came not to

send peace, but a sword.

CHRISTIAN VARIANCE.

MATTHEW X. 35, 36.

I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the

daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her

mother-in-law; and a man's focs shall be they of his own

HEAVENLY AND EARTHLY LOVE.

He that loveth father or mother more than Me is not worthy of

Me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than Me is not

THE OBJECT OF LIFE.

None of us liveth to himself; and no man dieth to himself.

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