| 1850 - 716 pagina’s
...as they had meted, so was it miraculously meted to them again. " A good turn is never lost ;" " Cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days;" "Good measure, pressed down, and running over," did GOD return into their bosoms. The money was counted... | |
| 1847 - 854 pagina’s
...the old man's last observation. 'That I take, sir, to be the meaning of the Scripture proverb, " Cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days."1 ' True ; and I think I may apply that proverb with equal appropriateness to a lesson which... | |
| Thomas Northcote Toller - 1848 - 106 pagina’s
...all Shushan. And we are assured that no work of faith and labour of Jove shall be forgotten. " Cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days." "Though seed lie buried long in dust, It shan't deceive our hope." But that which always particularly... | |
| Ann Jane - 1855 - 1198 pagina’s
...season ;" be not impatient and cease, because of your little success ; remember the promise, " Cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days !" BKSSIE'S AUNTIE. November ISttt, 185.3. THE BOYS.— No. IV. THE MERCHANT'S SONS. SEVERAL years... | |
| Elizabeth Furlong Shipton HARRIS - 1848 - 416 pagina’s
...of the lad, or to reprove his expressions of immeasurable fidelity to his own person ; but— " Cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days." Emil sat in his room; a volume of the Vie Saint Dominique was under his paper-knife, when Max entered... | |
| 1849 - 586 pagina’s
...footing with the Catholic population, is a beautiful fulfiment of that encouraging promise, " cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days." For many days (years) has the bread of life been cast in the secluded vallies of Piedmont. English... | |
| 1849 - 698 pagina’s
...communicate; to the teachers, re- ; minding them of the promise which they had seen fulfilled — " Cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days." " Three hymns, sung during the meeting, were composed for the occasion? two by old scholars, and the... | |
| Emma Jane (pseud.) - 1849 - 388 pagina’s
...single word or sentence has proved instrumental to the saving of an immortal soul. It is written, " Cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days ; " and he or she who writes of the " truth as it is in Jesus," and sends it forth to the world in... | |
| 1854 - 672 pagina’s
...book. ''No, my dear," answered her mother. " Then what does this mean," asked Mabel again, " 'Cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days V " Her mother then told her that in the country where the Bible was written, ', there were only two... | |
| 1849 - 512 pagina’s
...What a beautiful illustration do both these instances afford of the words already quoted — " Cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days." We have hitherto been speaking of the early days of this enteresting Mission : we must briefly recount... | |
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