 | William Bentley Fowle - 1843 - 314 pages
...knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or tliat, or whether they both shall be alike good. Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun : But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all, yet let him remember, the days of darkness ; for... | |
 | William Mudge - 1843 - 408 pages
...statute, for ever. You will observe, 1. The requirement of oil to cause the lamp of the sanctuary to burn. Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun. Eccl. xi. 7. In the absence of that glorious luminary, artificial light becomes a great convenience.... | |
 | 1843 - 212 pages
...beautiful and wondrous indeed ! But one thing more and the pledge is yours — now make it see ! " for truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." Let it at one glance receive and recognize the extended landscape, with all its varieties of feature,... | |
 | 1856 - 1432 pages
...elastic frame and joyous spirit, keenly appreciating what the Preacher, the son of David, once said : "Truly, the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." Him, tranquil scholar, unlike brainstricken scholars so very many, the sun he thus welcomed smote not... | |
 | Isaac Beeman - 1844 - 522 pages
...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 pages
...; 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... | |
 | John Wood Warter - 1844 - 608 pages
...whether they be good or evil, Revelation tells us, shall a man be judged. " Truly," says the Preacher, " the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun : But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all, yet let him remember the days of darkness : for... | |
 | 1867 - 400 pages
...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... | |
 | 1847 - 396 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
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Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun : 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. 
