...recompence, it is not giving, but selling. You may, however, safely trust to the promise of God : " Cast thy bread upon the waters, for thou shall find it after many days."* I have known many instances of kindnesses that were both remembered and requited, after they had been...

...or remembered evidence, be exactly told ; but very little doubt need be felt on the point : " Cast thy bread upon the waters, for thou shall find it after many days." It surely may be received as an ethical maxim, that parental teaching, when enforced by a consistent...

...from a coroneted coach, amidst a groupe of masons and labourers has been put into my hands. " Cast thy bread upon the waters, for thou shall find it after many days," ¡в an injunction which we should all obey ; and which has not been in vain inculcated on the Christians...

...minds ; and to no class of men, do those beautiful words of the Preacher more aptly apply, '• Cast thy bread upon the waters, for thou shall find it after many days," than to those intrusted with the education of youth. TS POETRY. WE have so many urgent demands for...

...those sinful excesses, which would fill his heart with sorrow, and his flesh with sin. Ver. 1. Cast thy bread upon the waters : for thou shall find it after many days.] This is a proverbial form of speech, drawn from the manner of husbandmen, who sow their land in expectation...

...setting day." There is probably a reference to the sowing of Rice in that text of Ecclesiastes: "Cast thy bread upon the waters, for thou shall find it after many days.'' c5 naturally of great fertility, and rendered still more productive by a system of irrigation more...

...whom he said, " She hath done what she could." Let each individual ask, — " Lord, is it I ?" " Cast thy bread upon the waters ; for thou shall find it after many days. In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand ; for thou knowest not whether...

...and passages of the Bible, than any of his companions in years who enjoy the light. March 9th. "Cast thy bread upon the waters : for thou shall find it after many days." " He that hath pity on the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will He pay him...

...water renders applicable to them, even more than to corn-lands, the expression of Eccles. xi. 1. Cast thy bread upon the waters ; for thou shall find it after many days. Astros. The road from Kiveri to Astros leads, for the most part, over uninteresting hills, near the...

...shall reap if ye faint not." Copy after Abraham, who " against hope, still believed in hope." " Cast thy bread upon the waters : for thou shall find it after many days." 14. I have now only a few words to add unto you, my brethren, who are vulgarly called Methodists. I...