| Mary Martha Sherwood - 1834 - 466 Seiten
...known by several old people still living in those parts ; making out the words of Scripture : ' Cast thy bread upon the waters, for thou shall find it after many days.' " Eccles. xi.l. When Henry had finished his story, he said, " I always knew that cheating and stealing... | |
| 1834 - 438 Seiten
...;" and Solomon, when speaking of acts of charily in his beautiful exhortations, Keel. xi. 1. " Cast thy bread upon the waters, for thou shall find it after many days," finely intimates, that as he who commits the seed to the waters, which is the mode of sowing in that... | |
| Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1838 - 604 Seiten
...full of stimulating precepts to do good, with encouraging promises annexed to their fulfilment. "Cast thy bread upon the waters, for thou shall find it after many days." (Eccles. xi. 1.) "In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand, for thou... | |
| 1835 - 524 Seiten
...encreaseth ; and there is that witholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty." — " Cast thy bread upon the waters, for thou shall find it after many days." Be prayerful and faithful, and God will crown your efforts with abundant success. Finally, brethren,... | |
| Joseph Roberts - 1835 - 656 Seiten
...How can we prosper? he no sooner awakes than he cries, teen! teen!" food ! food! XI. 1. — " Cast thy bread upon the waters : for thou shall find it after many days." I believe Dr. Adam Clarke is right in supposing that this alludes to the sowing of rice. The Tamul... | |
| Harvey Newcomb - 1836 - 136 Seiten
...Trust in the Lord, and do good ; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed." " Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shall find it after many days." " I have been young, and now am old ; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging... | |
| 1836 - 368 Seiten
...Thames, between Norwich and New London, America, was preaching on the language of Solomon : " Cast thy bread upon the waters ; for thou shall find it after many days." Eccles. xi. 1. To illustrate his subject, and enforce the duty of benevolence, he related a circumstance... | |
| Hobart Caunter - 1836 - 416 Seiten
...The ingratitude of men is, under no circumstances whatever, an excuse for our uncharitableness. "Cast thy bread upon the waters, for thou shall find it after many days." u For God is not unrighteous to forget your works and labour of love." The more difficult the circumstances... | |
| Charles Lawson (M.A.) - 1838 - 412 Seiten
...at Richmond Church, August 17,1834, for the National Parochial Schools. ECCLESIASTES xi. 1,4—Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shall find it after many days. He that observeth the wind shall not sow: and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap. .... 159... | |
| 1838 - 516 Seiten
...carefulness to make it understood that a long time may elapse between the sowing and reaping. ' Cast thy bread upon the waters, for thou shall find it after many days.' ' After many days,' you observe, not after few. In that very interesting, though brief parable of the... | |
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