| E. Jarmain - 1854 - 252 pages
...shame, That thou shouldst live beyond the sky, And happy be, love, when you die." MAY THE SIXTEENTH. " The day of death is better than the day of one's birth ;" " For the thinf which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto... | |
| 1854 - 814 pages
...his father's blessing for them. Here occurs a scene illustrative in Jacob's case of that Scripture, 'The day of death is better than the day of one's birth. It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting, for that is the end... | |
| William King Tweedie - 1854 - 248 pages
...contact of the abominable thing, I enter, the believer exclaims, with my whole heart, into the words — "The day of death is better than the day of one's birth." Once more — I read, "It doth not yet appear what we shall be ; but we know that when he shall appear,... | |
| Bible Christians - 1856 - 496 pages
...dispensation of Divine providence to a large assembly, by informing us from the highest authority, that " the day of death is better than the day of one's birth." It was a solemn and an impressive season, and no doubt impressions were then made, that time itself... | |
| George W. Mylne - 1856 - 116 pages
...the cross, the righteousness, the name of Christ, Think not of self, nor of thine own good name. " The day of death is better than the day of one's birth." — ECCL. vii. 1. " THIS is an hard saying ; who can hear it ? " Hard ; yea, impossible to flesh and... | |
| Clement Carlyon - 1856 - 500 pages
...testimony to the truth of the Royal Preacher's words that, to such as die in peace with their Maker, " The day of death is better than the day of one's birth." j" It will not, I imagine, be said that the late Sir James 183 Mackintosh, when in the full strength... | |
| Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher, Samuel Macauley Jackson - 1857 - 500 pages
...righteous, and let my last end be like his !" Not that which the preacher commends in the words, " The day of death is better than the day of one's birth." Nor that of which Paul writes, "O death, where is thy sting?" The death to which Jesus was condemned,... | |
| Henry Aveling - 1857 - 224 pages
...soul's health, which cannot be pronounced good until it can fully assent to that Scripture which saith ' the day of death is better than the day of one's birth.' 'NO CROSS, NO CROWN.' LET us not dream of our reward before our work is done ; but let us rather prove... | |
| Robert James M'Ghee - 1857 - 654 pages
...fly on. Let them come — let them go, — the last year of our life shall be the best of all, for " the day of death is better than the day of one's birth" — Eccl. vii. 1, that is, if a man is a child of God. What a blessing is it then, if we are brought... | |
| Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher - 1859 - 492 pages
...righteous, and let my last end be like his !" Not that which the preacher commends in the words, " The day of death is better than the day of one's birth." Nor that of which Paul writes, " O death, where is thy sting ?" The death to which Jesus was condemned,... | |
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