...Sacra, observes, that with the mental failings commences the enumeration of the evils of the day, " while the sun, or the light, or " the moon, or the stars, be not dark" ened, nor the clouds return after the " rain." Accordingly, we are not to infer from this that...

...decays; the head bows down; the beauty consumes•away; the hands cannot pfirforin their enterprise: the grinders cease, because they are few, and those that look out at the window are darkened." The powers of the mind partake also of the declension. Sir Isaac Newton,...

...and waited for him to finish the chapter he had just commenced. In clear, full tone* he proceeded, "In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble,...because they are few, and those that look out of the window bt darkened." "Father," said Edward, — placing his finger upon the place •where he left...

...the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them ; while the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars,...the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble" —perhaps alluding to the hands — " and the strong men shall bow themselves" — perhaps alluding...

...making an end of him. What a Striking description of death's forerunners have we in Ecclesiastes : — " The keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders shall cease because they are few, and those that look out oi the windows be darkened." And this the...

...each other : let us implore him to keep love, and joy, and peace among us ; and to save us in that day, when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves; when the golden bowl shall be broken, and the wheel broken at the cistern ; praying with all prayer...

...of advancing years, which are so poetically expressed by Solomon in his portraiture of old age, — in the day, " when the keepers of the house shall...strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders shall cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened ;"* — in other...

...the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain : when the keepers of the house shall tremble ; and...those, that look out of the windows, be darkened; Eccl. xii. 1, 2, 3. Shortly, what is our old age, but the winter of our life? How can we then expect...

...the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them ; 2. While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars...not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain : 3. In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves,...

...vainly rejoicest, are momentary things, gone and passed, ere thou canst find thou enjoyest them. XII. 2. While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars,...not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain : Before thine eyes grow dim with age, so as thou dost not clearly discern the sun, the moon, or stars;...