...than the occupant of the palace I mirth laughed in the one, silence reigned in the other ! " For BS the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool." " Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful, and the end of that mirth is heaviness." Herod, as we have...

...about everything, sacred or profane, which is unbecoming a wise man, to say nothing of a Christian. " As the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This also is vanity." (Eccl. vii. 6.) And here let me especially warn you against profane jokes, and...

...Greek Fiction ! be thy fame concealed, Alcides' club to Luther's pen must yield. CHEERFULNESS. •" As the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool." Eccles. vii. 6. 1833. Lo ! beneath the caldron, clear, Speeds the busy fire its task, But the noisy...

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...to get back, before the noise is done and the blaze all gone. So is the the fool's laughter, " For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool." 7. May the holy Spirit lead us to seek for something better than a fool's laughter, a fool's song,...

...of mirth. It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools. For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. 3 I need not, of course, stop to remind you of the sense in which wise and foolish are used by the...

...of mirth. It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools. For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the foolJ I need not, of course, stop to remind you of the sense in which wise and foolish are used by...

...being soon at an end, their mirth sinks at the same time, because within there was no foundation. " As the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of a fool;" it may make a transient blaze, but it is soon over. What is it in religious characters that...

...mirth. 5 It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools. 6 For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool : this also is vanity. 7 Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad ; and a gift de. stroyeth the heart....

...of mirth. It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools. For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool." Eccles. vii. 3 — 6. Whatever experience I hare had in this way, is in perfect agreement with the...