 | Francis Edward Paget - 1844 - 444 pagina’s
...; hopeless it is not. It is not, cannot be thankless to those who have faith in the promise, " Cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days." Discouragement is a trial, and ingratitude is a trial, but who are we that we should expect to escape... | |
 | 1845 - 328 pagina’s
...shorn lamb, and hears the ravens when they cry ; ' One, who, by the word of inspiration, saith, ' cast thy bread upon the waters and thou shalt find it after many days ; ' One, who, to show the power of faith, permits the faithful, being dead, yet to speak. She who was... | |
 | 1845 - 452 pagina’s
...glimmer. If any of us knew what we were doing and where we were going when we think we best know!" " Cast thy bread upon the waters and thou shalt find it after many days ;" " fear God and keep his commandments," — is the ancient exhortation, and conclusion of the whole... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1845 - 488 pagina’s
...duty. In nothing is the Scriptural declaration more likely to be fulfilled in its richest import " Cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days." Multitudes of illustrations might be introduced to confirm the views of this section. How natural is... | |
 | John Todd - 1846 - 270 pagina’s
...father, I do, a great many things 1 — for to-day I asked my teacher about that beautiful text, ' Cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days ;' — and what, father, do you think?" " Why, child, it must mean that we ought to be charitable to... | |
 | Baptist missionary society - 1846 - 918 pagina’s
...custom in India and China. This practice explains another very beautiful passage of Scripture, " Cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days," Ecclesiastes xi. 1. Bread here means rather seed-corn, or seed-rice ; and the meaning of the whole... | |
 | Robert Murray M'Cheyne - 1847 - 580 pagina’s
...Bible shows, then, that the best way to have plenty in this world is to give liberally. (1.) "Cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days." This refers to the sowing of rice. The rice in the East is always sown when the fields are flooded... | |
 | Lady Catharine Long - 1847 - 596 pagina’s
...passage — which, as has been mentioned, he had had inscribed on Mr. Anstruther's monument : ' Cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days' — with an earnest determination, more than ever to ' spend and be spent,' in the service of that... | |
 | Charles Cotesworth Pinckney Moody - 1847 - 182 pagina’s
...himself so dependent ; but the old clergyman replied, " Elder Seward, does not the Bible say, ' cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days?'" Towards evening he reached the city ; and. the good people of the city, then, as now, ever ready to... | |
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Cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days. 
