...pleasures that solicit our pursuit; and this consideration can be inculcated only by affliction. " О lives at ease in his possessions!" If our present stale were one continued succession of delights,...

...desolateness, and of one whom death overtakes, trusting to the smiles and enjoyments of prosperity ! " O death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to...vex him, and that hath prosperity in all things." Not so to the strugglers and sufferers in the world's sore strife ! " 0 " death ! acceptable is thy...

...many employed in study or labour. Surely, then, it is good to draw nigh to God! THE EVENING OF LIFE. " O DEATH ! how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that liveth at rest in his possessions, to him that hath nothing to vex him, and that hath prosperity in all things ; yea, unto him that is...

...did the Wise Man observe : О death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to а тая that lirri/i at rest in his possessions ; unto the man that hath...him ; and that hath prosperity in all things ; Yea, adds, he, unto him, that is yet able to receioe meat /» And how bitter, then, must the remembrance...

...of his months are with Thee. Thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot, pass." Job xiv. 1, 5. " O death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that liveth at rest in his possessions." Ecclus. xli. 1. " We must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground ; which cannot be gathered...

...When I could think upon a dear friend dead, that liveth at rest In his possessions, unto the man tnat nit. O friend, she cried, f The last of all ray family am I ; Yet sure, though last, t ret able to receive meat! " O Death, acceptable Is thy sentence unto the needy, and unto him whose...

...pleasures that solicit our pursuit; and this consideration can be inculcated only by affliction. " O Death ! how bitter is the remembrance of thee, to a man that lives at ease in his possessions!" If our present state were one continued succession of delights,...

...the other. What a searching point of reality and truth there is in the words of the son of Sirach : " O death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to...nothing to vex him, and that hath prosperity in all things!"1 I have been describing no evil or irreligious character ; but one which, to a great extent,...

...profits, honours, or any other of its idols. So saith the Wise Man : " O death : how bitter Ecclus. 41. 1 is the remembrance of thee to a man that liveth at...to vex him, and that hath prosperity in all things !" But if the thoughts of death be so bitter, the sight must needs be insupportable, to a man whose...

...profits, honours, or any other of its idols. So saith the Wise Man : " O death : how bitter Eccius. 4i. i. is the remembrance of thee to a man that liveth at...to vex him, and that hath prosperity in all things !" But if the thoughts of death be so bitter, the sight must needs be insupportable, to a man whose...