| Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1845 - 488 페이지
...duty. In nothing is the Scriptural declaration more likely to be fulfilled in its richest import " Cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days." Multitudes of illustrations might be introduced to confirm the views of this section. How natural is... | |
| 1845 - 328 페이지
...the shorn lamb, and hears the ravens when they cry ; ' One, who, by the word of inspiration, saith, ' cast thy bread upon the waters and thou shalt find it after many days ; ' One, who, to show the power of faith, permits the faithful, being dead, yet to speak. She who was... | |
| John Todd - 1846 - 270 페이지
...father, I do, a great many things 1 — for to-day I asked my teacher about that beautiful text, ' Cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days ;' — and what, father, do you think?" " Why, child, it must mean that we ought to be charitable to... | |
| Baptist missionary society - 1846 - 918 페이지
...the custom in India and China. This practice explains another very beautiful passage of Scripture, " Cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days," Ecclesiastes xi. 1. Bread here means rather seed-corn, or seed-rice ; and the meaning of the whole... | |
| Lady Catharine Long - 1847 - 596 페이지
...the passage — which, as has been mentioned, he had had inscribed on Mr. Anstruther's monument : ' Cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days' — with an earnest determination, more than ever to ' spend and be spent,' in the service of that... | |
| 1847 - 862 페이지
...into the pond. This explains a passage in Ecclesiastes, more frequently quoted than understood — ' Cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days ;' which means that, in the ordinary providence of Ood, we shall enjoy the reward of a good work in... | |
| Charles Cotesworth Pinckney Moody - 1847 - 182 페이지
...rendering himself so dependent ; but the old clergyman replied, " Elder Seward, does not the Bible say, ' cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days?'" Towards evening he reached the city ; and. the good people of the city, then, as now, ever ready to... | |
| Robert Murray M'Cheyne - 1847 - 580 페이지
...whole Bible shows, then, that the best way to have plenty in this world is to give liberally. (1.) "Cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days." This refers to the sowing of rice. The rice in the East is always sown when the fields are flooded... | |
| 1850 - 716 페이지
...and 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... | |
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