...moment, or may still be in the melancholy retrospect of the few and evil days of my pilgrimage ; for ' few and evil have the days of the years of my life been.' Our child was now drooping quickly ; and while we watched over her, as she gradually waned to the grave,...

...shall have, and must take, the LORD for your GOD. , V. MAN'S LIFE ON EARTH A PILGRIMAGE. GEN. xlvii. 9. The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred...and evil have the days of the years of my life been, andhavenot attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their pilgrimage....

...the way ; buried there ; and Jacob set a pillar upon her grave. — Gen. xxxv. 17, &c. OF DEATH, &C. hundred and thirty years : few and evil have the days of the years of my life been. — Gen. xlvii. 9. He mourned for Joseph, refused to be comforted, and said, 1 will go down into the...

...xxxv. 17, &c. Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one OF DEATH, &C. hundred and thirty years : few and evil have the days of the years of my life been. — Gen. xlvii. 9. He mourned for Joseph, refused to be comforted, and said, I will go down into the...

...Pharaoh asked Jacob, "How old art thou?" Jacob replied. " The clays of the years of my pilgrimage, are an Hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been " Had the same question been pat to Methuselah on his death-bed, it is presumed he would have returned...

...recorded in these very writings to have said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years : few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in their pilgrimage? Figurative,...

...artthou," said the king to him. — " The days of the years of my pilgrimage," said the old man, " are an hundred and thirty years ; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been." JUDEA. ; J NEvER was in Judea, thank God ! and I never will go there. I have met with men of all nations...

...whether he stand or sit, watch or walk, is carried nearer the port. May we not say with old Jacob, " Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been," in which we have his account cast up ? " Life," said one, " resembles a rose, which if we view in its...

...better country, that is, an heavenly one. This was Jacob's language when he appeared before Pharaoh : Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the doys of their pilgrimage,...

...venerable Patriarch, and what is the lesson which we may draw from it. " And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, the days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred...evil have the days of the years of my life been." Many, as far as regards this world, may have been the years of our pilgrimage, but few, alas ! the...