...rose like the bulwarks of J erusalem, under Nehemiah ; in troublous and stormy times : — * Every man with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with ' the other hand held a weapon ; for the builders had their swords ' girded by their sides, and so they builded.' Even Magna Cnarta...

...said : "They which builded on the wall and they that bare burdens, with those that laded, every one, with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon." So with us ; we still find that there are many enemies, and opposers to the building up of the fair...

...therefore, which builded the wall, and they that bare burdens, with those that laboured, every one with one of his- hands wrought in the work, and with the other held a weapon."* Such a mixture of preparation to resist the inroad of error, with the more immediate...

...again, " They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with those that laded, every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with THE REEUILDING OP THE WALLS OP JERUSALEM. the other hand held a weapon. For the builders, every one had...

...surrounded it with palisades; for, as one of them writes, " their situation was critical ; it was as if each with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other held a weapon." They found it needful to be constantly on their guard against a nation to whom robbery...

...Boys,' said I, 'don't you remember how, when the temple was rebuilding under Nehemiah, " every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other held a weapon ? " now yours is God's own work ; ' and the saying pleased them greatly. Not that they...

...engaged the attention of the actors in the Revolution ; and the novel spectacle was presented of a people contending for freedom and independence with...Provincial and Continental Congresses ; still the necessity of adopting a more regular, and better defined political system, was admitted by all. Congress, acting...

...be done now, as it was done by the builders who returned from the rivers of Babylon, — " every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon." But, in our case, the implement for the work and the weapon for defence are one and the same, — even...

...to resist aggression. They offered violence to no one. But they kept on with the work. " Every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon." 3. Thay had no time for play. When ahuse would not do, Sanhallat sent a very polite message, saying,...

...When Jerusalem in the old time was raised up from her ruins, we are told that each of the builders "with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon." Such must always, more or less, be the attitude of the champions of truth, and most of all at the present...