...repose : And, when life's rough day is past, Rest with thee in heav'n at last. For Saturday Evening. " Man is like to vanity : his days are as a shadow that passeth away." — Ps. cxliv. Safely, through another week, God has brought us on our way, Let us now a blessing seek...

...that which we have in the Common Prayer Book. It runs thus : " Lord, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him ? or the son of man, that thou makest account ot him .'" According to the former translation, David seems to be amazed that the eternal God, considering...

...i« man, that ihou lakes! knowledge of him ! or the son of man, that thou makes! account of him ! 4 Man is like to vanity : his days are as a shadow that passelh away. 5 Bow thy heavens, О LORD, and come down : touch the mountains, and they shall unoke....

...and man, that it is wonderful God will spend a thought upon us. "Lord, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him? or the son of man, that thou makest...vanity; his days are as a shadow that passeth away," Psalm cxliv. 3, 4. His being in this world hath nothing firm or solid ; it is like a shadow that depends...

...shield, and he in whom I trust ; who subdueth my people under me. 3 LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him: or the son of man, that thou makest account of him ! 4 Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away. 5 Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and...

...companion and numerous relatives, who wept as though they had no remaining comfort. Then I said, " Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away." Nov. 4, 1825, closed twenty years of my life, and it was a day of much reflection and solemnity. As...

...shield, and He in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me. Lord, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him ; or the son of man, that thou makest account of him c ? "] 2. The comfort which man derives from this view of the Deity — [Every one, the meanest as...

...shadow, and disquieteth himself in vain : he heapeth up riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them. Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away." Discontented seclusion, indeed, from the duties and the innocent relaxations of life, is not a dictate...

...him, and the son of man, that thou visitest him? Ps. viii. 4. Lord, what ;'., man, that thou takest knowledge of him, or the son of man, that thou makest account of him ? Ps. cxliv. 3. I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips. Jsa....

...shadow, and disquieteth himself in vain : he heapeth up riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them. Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that pass«th away." Discontented seclusion, indeed, from the duties and the innocent relaxations of life,...