 | Isaac Beeman - 1844 - 522 páginas
...this candle shined upon poor Job ; and I hope I may say also that it has shined, ere now, upon me. " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." And when the Lord lighted up the Apostles on the day of Pentecost, he searched Jerusalem with these... | |
 | Hubbard Winslow - 1844 - 378 páginas
...; for the glory * Rev. vii. 14—17. of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof."* " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun," — how delightful then to the Christian,. to live in the blaze of such a sun as this ! Again the revelator... | |
 | 1847 - 396 páginas
...when you wake up, you will perhaps feel so cheerful that you will think of those words of Solomon, " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun ! " and you will thankfully say with David, " I laid me down and slept ; I awaked, for the Lord sustained... | |
 | William Evans, Thomas Evans - 1845 - 496 páginas
...made us able to say, his Word is a lamp unto our feet, and a light unto our path. Osaith this man, "Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." "0 house of Jacob ! come ye and let us walk in the light of the Lord." For the mountain of the Lord's... | |
 | George Delgarno Hill - 1845 - 370 páginas
...lights up the mind with a cheerful prospect, and dispels D2 the sadness that confinement had entailed. " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun," says the Preacher. 1 A gloomy prospect, fraught with suffering and pale affliction, fills the soul... | |
 | 1867 - 400 páginas
...are used to set forth his glory, nature, to make his beauties known, must mingle colours not her own. Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun, but the Sun of righteousness emits brighter beams of radiancy, and souls whose darkness has been dispersed... | |
 | Louisa Shaw - 1846 - 200 páginas
...ties but seVer To re-unite, and live in joy, for ever ! MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. 79 THE DYING BLIND BOY. "Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." ECCLESIASTES ii. 7. OH, MOTHER ! gentle Mother, pray come nearer to me now, That I may feel thy kiss again upon... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1799 - 392 páginas
...feels the effect of his influence ; man watches for the morning and rejoices at his approach ; for " truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." The vegetable tribes likewise feel his energy : he gives circulation to the sap in plants and trees... | |
 | William Beveridge - 1846 - 692 páginas
...the outward. " The light of Ecci. H. 7. the eyes," saith the wise man, " rejoiceth the heart." " And truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." This we all find by daily experience ; and so do we, too, that the light and heat of the sun agitate... | |
 | Henry Scougal - 1846 - 292 páginas
...ariseth and maketh the darkness flee before him, and discovereth all the beauty and lustre of things. And truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun. Nor is it less useful and advantageous for directing our ways, and ordering our several employments:... | |
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But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all ; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. 
