...ordered the whole creation with wisdom, and divided the light from the darkness, and appointed the sun to rule the day, and the moon and stars to rule the night ; who hast enabled us sinners, even in this present hour, to appear before thy face in confession,...

...we will add some truths that astronomers have found out for us. You all know that the sun was given to rule the day, and the moon and stars to rule the night; and that they have ever been true to the command of their Almighty Author. This obvious and great difference...

...the earth is its ground floor, the firmament its ceiling, under which the Almighty hangs out the sun to rule the day, and the moon and stars to rule the night. This ceiling is also the floor of the apartment above, and in this is a cistern, shaped, as one of...

...the sun's rays : for on the fourth day the Creator called forth the celestial luminaries — the sun to rule the day, and the moon and stars to rule the night. The dimensions, distances, revolntions, velocity, and beauty of those heavenly bodies, are wonderful,...

...the handiwork of Jehovah, or gazed on the wonders of creation, unconscious of Him who gave the sun to rule the day, and the moon and stars to rule the night. How often hast thou gone after forbidden objects, and thereby brought guilt and darkness on me. Thy...

...spirits and of all flesh, who art beyond compare, and standest in need of nothing, who hast given the sun to rule the day and the moon and stars to rule the night, do Thou now also look down upon us with gracious eyes, and receive our morning prayer, and have mercy...

...worlds, and peopling these worlds with races receptive of truth and error, capable of bliss and of woe. When the teacher builds up some grand and splendid...susceptibilities which, at first, are little more than blank and inane, — a space and an opportunity for the residence of pure sentiments and holy affections....

...they wheel majestically and harmoniously, within his mind, as to some unbidden music of their own ; is it not a contemplation at least only second to...to rule the night, and all the sons of God shouted for joy ? Such knowledge to each child is as new-born and perfect as was the first gleam of that radiance...

...the earth covered with herbage, and the fruit-trees with fruit; already the sun had been appointed to rule the day, and the moon and stars to rule the night, when man, the last and noblest of terrestrial beings, was, from his native dust, ushered into life....

...the earth is its ground floor, the firmament its ceiling, under which the Almighty hangs out the sun to rule the day, and the moon and stars to rule the night. This ceiling is also the floor of the apartment above, and in this is a cistern, shaped, as one of...