| Laurence Sterne - English literature - 1805 - 470 pages
...is more than probable, that what is so scattered, shall be gathered again with increase. Cast tliy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days. Bi as a father unto the fatherless, and instead of a husband unto their mother : So shalt thou be as... | |
| Harriet Corp - 1814 - 202 pages
...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,' 1 is an encouraging text. A peculiar blessing followed our resisting thus in the strength of God's... | |
| William Huntington - 1815 - 730 pages
...the cloda. I will in no wise believe that all the seed sown, 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... | |
| Hugh Pearson - Clergy - 1817 - 556 pages
...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."... | |
| Hugh Pearson - Anglican Communion - 1818 - 712 pages
...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."... | |
| Liberalism (Religion) - 1818 - 396 pages
...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," and rejoicing in the opportunity given us of following in some humble degree, the example of our Father... | |
| Hugh Pearson - Educators - 1819 - 432 pages
...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."... | |
| Benjamin Braidley - Sunday schools - 1831 - 204 pages
...time and opportunity. It also affords encouragement to the Sunday school teacher. It says to him, " cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days." Patience and perseverance are two needful graces in all ranks of the Christian life, but especially... | |
| John Epps - Physicians - 1831 - 424 pages
...remarkable experience, he has a right to receive with reverence the oracular precept of Ecclesiastes—' Cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days.'" Engaged in the pursuit of medical literature, and in the promoting the sale of his work, Walker spent... | |
| Edwin Sidney - 1834 - 438 pages
...the congregation, so that I had not any liberty. Lord, where is the word that was sown on Sunday eve! Cast thy bread upon the waters and thou shalt find it after many days." Of a subsequent sermon he says, " I doubt too much in my own spirit;" and he closes the year 1767,... | |
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