...contemptuous seclusion from the world, in the spirit, if not in the very language of the ancient Pharisee, " Stand by thyself; come not near me; for I am holier than thou." This is the vilest mixture with the world. Your separation from the world is to be a moral and spiritual...

...vanity. For who can live in friendship with men who cry out, with the most disgusting effrontery, " Stand by thyself, come not near me ; for I am holier than thou ?" Isai. Ixv, 5. II. THE CHARACTER OF THE PHARISEE AND THE PUBLICAN. Two men, of very different character,...

...shall stand aloof like the proud man described by the prophet, and say to him that is suffering, " Stand by thyself, come not near me, for I am holier than thou;" so we shall be building up a barrier between him and us, yea, a barrier so high, that unless God's...

...whose language to God is. I thank thee, that I am not like other men ; and to his fellow creatures, stand by thyself, come not near me, for I am holier than thou. Such are, of all persons, most hateful to God, and the most unlike the characters mentioned in our...

...exceedingly corrupted and degenerated, yet remembered they were the chosen people of God ; and could say, " Stand by thyself, come not near me, for I am holier than thou." That this was no chance language, but their common opinion of other people, more fully appears, by...

...claiming an exclusive, or, at least, extraordinary grace, and seeming to say to the rest of the world : "Stand by thyself, come not near me, for I am holier than thou" (Isaiah, Ixv. 5) ; and on the other hand, the absence of the fierce fanatical spirit, which claims...

...essential prerequisite to an advantageous union. If either party were disposed to say to the other, ' Stand by thyself, come not near me ; for I am holier than thou,' — on such a supposition, any outward junction would be constrained and unnatural, and every way worse...

...then, let us put far from us that disposition which would say to the farthest wanderer, ' Prodigal, stand by thyself; come not near me, for I am holier than tliou.' " In 1857, she removed with her husband to Sadsbury Monthly Meeting, Lancaster Co., Pa., where...

...administered by their priestly hands ! How revolting must those be in the sight of God, " which say, Stand by thyself: come not near !•> me ; for I am holier than thou ! These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day." But и for those on whom their anathemas...

...Chundor Sen, "Lectures and Tracts on tho Brahmo Somaj," p, 27. good will even from that holy region. " Stand by thyself, come not near me, for I am holier than thoú," is literally the language held by caste Christians. And of such G-od says, " These are a smoke...