...Where such an opportunity occurs for reproof, I think none should suffer sin on their brother : and, " Cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days," is an encouraging text. A peculiar blessing followed our resisting thus in the strength of God's word...

...clods. I will in no wise believe that all the seed sow/a among the islanders will prove barren ; " Cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days." Our blessed Saviour, the bread of life, works in secret; and many, when first they conceive him in...

...in the Lord." What then remains, but that I exhort you in the words of the same apostle, " Brethren be not weary in well-doing ; for in due season ye shall reap if ye faint not" ? If it were necessary for St. Paul twice to enforce this caution,* it will hardly be found superfluous...

...tell him I often think that " he has great need of faith to believe the Scripture, which " says, • Cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find " it after many days.' Many days have elapsed,- and yet " the bread he threw to me is not returned. Adieu. " C. BUCHANAN."...

...necessity, then would you fmd what you have given in charity to others, lying ready in store for you. Cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days, says the wise man. But when shall we find it I He tells us in the next verse; " Give a portion to seven,...

...tell him I often " think that he has great need of faith to believe " the Scripture, which says, ' Cast thy bread upon " the waters, and thou shalt find it after many "days.' Many days have elapsed, and yet the " bread he threw to me is not returned. Adieu. " C. BUCHANAN."...

...Let us then do with our might what eur hands find to do, trusting in Him who hath said, u cast your bread upon the waters and thou shalt find it after many days," and rejoicing in the opportunity given us of following in some hunjble degree, the exani"ple of our...

...Let us then do with our might what our hands find to do, trusting in Him who hath said, " cast your bread upon the waters and thou shalt find it after many days;" aud rejoicing in the opportunity given us of following in some humble degree, the example of our Father...

...influence of divine love, " let it be your meat and drink to do the " will of your heavenly Father. Be not weary in «« well-doing ; for in due season ye shall reap, if " ye faint not." And do you, my hearers who are not of the Society, go and do likewise ; strengthen their hands, and...

...our religion, that the more the possessor imparts to others, the more his own stock is increased. ' Cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days.' ' He that watereth, shall himself be watered.' ' Sell what thou hast and give to the poor, and thou...