Light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." There is, however, another darkness besides that arising from the absence of the sun—a darkness whose dwelling-place is in the hearts of men and women, boys and girls—a darkness... The Preacher's Lantern - Página 7121871Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 480 páginas
...died, looked more like a corpse that had lain weeks in the grave, than one fresh dead. ' Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun; but let a man live many days and rejoice in them all, yet let him remember the days of darkness, for... | |
| American Sunday-School Union - 1838 - 132 páginas
...have one look at the sky, and the trees, and the gay flow-ers. (7.) The Bi-ble says: Tru-ly, the fight is sweet, and a pleas-ant thing it is for the eyes to be-hold the sun. (8.) The cre-a-tion of day and night was the work of the first day L 42 • (1-) UNION SPELLING BOOK.... | |
| Light - 1838 - 298 páginas
...an application to Him, in the exercise of faith, will infallibly succeed. Truly, the light is good; and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun ; but he that seeth the Sun of righteousness, and believeth on him, hath everlasting life. Nor let... | |
| John Wilson - 1839 - 88 páginas
...the " Sun of righteousness."ff In reference to human experience and enjoyment, it is said," Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the s«n."JJ In no passage of the Bible, however, is light re* 1 Chronicles, xxix, II, 12. f Genesis, i,... | |
| Elizabeth Stryker Ricord - 1840 - 440 páginas
...must not impede the progress of your education for another and higher state of existence. " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun," but " remember the days of darkness," and while you " walk in the way of your heart," that is, follow... | |
| Thomas Dick - 1840 - 412 páginas
...elements of nature there is none more delightful and beautiful in its effects than light. "Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." It diffuses a thousand shades of colouring over the hills, the vales, the rivers, and the boundless... | |
| Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) - 1840 - 444 páginas
...an application to Him, in the exercise of faith, will infallibly succeed. Truly the light is good; and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun ; but he that seeth the Sun of righteousness, and believeth on him, hath everlasting life. Nor let... | |
| Anne Pratt - 1840 - 448 páginas
...before the townspeople have awaked from their slumbers, or have yet bethought them that " truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes "> Behold the sun." The basket containing these floral curiosities is sometimes half filled with bluebells,... | |
| Charles Follen - 1841 - 408 páginas
...ix. 22. I am made all things to all men. . . . . . .78 SERMON VIII. ECCLESIASTKS XÌ. 7. Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun. ........ 90 SERMON IX. JOHN i. 9. The true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.... | |
| Christian - 1841 - 998 páginas
...objects from our bodily eyes, so ignorance hides the true nature of things from the eyes of the mind. Light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun ; but there is nothing more unpleasant in itself, or more commonly associated with the idea of terror,... | |
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