...different these often are from the realities of things. " Who knoweth what is good for a man in this life ; all the days of his vain life, which he spendeth as a shadow ?" What should we have been at this hour if things had always accorded with our mind and wishes? Let...

...recalled me to myself whilst it awoke reflection. " For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow ?" Mr. Twig's sermon was a flowery effusion, delivered with a good deal of mouthing, and made no impression...

...the world to come but it answers Solomon's inquiry, ' Verily it is good for man in this life, yea, all the days of his vain life, which he spendeth as a shadow.' " John is well and joins me in duty to dear mother and love to our brothers and sisters. " I remain...

...are never forsaken, nor their seed left to beg bread. There is another consideration. A man knows not what is good for him all the days of his vain life on the earth. Perhaps the Master knows that these trials are necessary for him. Are these trials of...

...are never forsaken, nor their seed left to beg bread. There is another consideration. A man knows not what is good for him all the days of his vain life on the earth. Perhaps the Master knows that these trials are necessary for him. Are these trials of...

...'desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit. For who knoweth what is good for man hi this life, b for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun? Jer. vl, 8. Be thon Instructed, O Jerusalem,...

...hear it in the terrible verdict of Ecclesiastes : " For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow ? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun ? " Lucretius overflows with it : —...

...what we most dread, may prove a great blessing. "For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life, which he spendeth as a shadow?" Let us then perform the duty of prayer, and leave the mode of its answer, entirely, to the only wise...

...that increase vanity, what is man the better ? 12 For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, enlrcatflh to be resetted from hit enemies. G /fe acknoirled for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun? CHAPTER VII. Sundry observations and...

...wisdom than of ourselves we are furnished withal; for "who knoweth what is good for man iu this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow?" Eccles. vi. 12; and ofttimes believers are never more at a loss than how to pray aright about temporal...