...and desire shall fail : because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets : 6 none is able to withstand thee ? 7 Art not thou our...of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest 7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was : and the spirit shall return unto God who gave...

...he free his soul from the power of the grave?" Psa. Ixxxix. And to spe^ak the language of Solomon, " Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl...at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern :" that is t» say, the back-bone, where marrow is as white as silver, be loosed ; when the skull,...

...he free his soul from the power of the grave?" Psa. Ixxxix. And to speak the language of Solomon, " Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl...at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern :"' that is to SIT, the back-bone, where marrow is as white as silver, be loosed ; when the skull,...

...and that those who bewail our loss, may not sorrow as others which have no hope, 1 Thess. iv. 13. 6. Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl...the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Some interpreters understand this verse literally : first, of the ornaments : secondly, of the more...

...while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh when we shall say, we have no pleasure in them; or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl...at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern m " When affliction comes upon us, it may be too late for us to profit by it. It may come, when our...

...boldly shadowed forth by Solomon in describing the decay of nature and the creeping on of old age ? " Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl...the cistern ; " Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was : " And the spirit shall return to God who gave it." We have thus attempted to show...

...reciprocally attempted the discomfilure or harassment of the opponent, " or even the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher...fountain, or the •wheel broken at the cistern," when the dust shall return to the earth — the wish that our latter end may be like his. I conclude...

...in the Bible, in the book of Ecclesiastes, the 1 2th chapter, the 6th verse, where it is written, ' or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the. cistern.' Expressive of the two principal effects of this disease, the involuntary passing of the urine, and...

...and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail : because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners...fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall tbe dust return to the earth as it was ; and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. I will say...

...and desire shall fail : because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets : 6 Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl...the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. 7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was : and the spirit shall return unto God who gave...