Illustrative Gatherings, Or, Preachers and Teachers, a Manual of Anecdotes

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ... xxiv. 30--34; xxxi. 27; Eccles. x. 18; Isa. lvi. 10 Ezek. xvi. 49; Matt. xii. 36; xx. 3; Acts xvii. 21 Rom. xii. 11; 2 Thess. iii. 8--13; 1 Tim. v. 13 Heb. vi. 12. "Idleness is the very rust and canker of the soul; the devil's cushion, pillow, chief reposal; his very tide-time of temptation, as it were, wherein he carries with much care, and without contradiction, the current of our corrupt affections to any cursed sin."--Bolton. "The burial of a living man." "Satan's seed-time. Ground left fallow, will soon produce plenty of weeds." "King Clog doesn't like King Jog." "The idler is a watch that wants both hands, As useless when it goes as when it stands." "Idleness is the mother of many wanton children. They that do nothing are in the ready way to do worse than nothing. It was not for nothing that we were called out of nothing."--Mason. "Prefer diligence before idleness, unless you esteem rust above brightness."--Plato. "He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed."--Socrates. "What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal."--Howe. "Idleness predominates in many lives where it is not suspected; for, being a vice which is chiefly personal, it is not watched like fraud; it is a silent quality, which does not raise envy by ostentation, nor hatred by opposition, and therefore often remains incurable."--Dr. Johnson. "The Ruin of most men dates from some vacant hour. Occupation is the armour of the soul. I remember a satirical poem, in which the devil is represented as fishing for men, and fitting his baits to...