correct and expressive of all languages, not only walking but standing has a figurative meaning, and that according to this meaning it involves in it lessons of the deepest and most important signification.
I shall now, lastly, bespeak your attention to the term SITTING.
Open then your BIBLE again, and let the following passages have their due influence on your mind:—“Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came unto the house of GOD, and wept, and SAT there before the LORD, and fasted that day until evening,” [Judges xx. 26.]. Again, “O LORD, Thou knowest my DOWN-SITTING and mine up-rising, Thou understandest my thoughts afar of,” [Psalm cxxix. 2.]. Again, “Therefore have I cried concerning this, their strength is to SIT STILL,” [Isaiah xxx. 7.]. Again, “Thou shalt not go into the house of feasting, to SIT with them,” [Jer. xvi. 8.] Again, “Then shall he stand and feed in the strength of LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his GOD; and they shall abide (shall SIT),” [Micah v. 4.]. Again, “Comde down and SIT in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, SIT on the ground: SIT thou silent, and enter into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: she saith in her heart, I shall not SIT as a widow,” [Isaiah xlvii. 1, 5, 8.]. In like manner
