 | Elijah Holmes Pilcher - 1878 - 506 trang
...co-operating, usually making equal subscriptions. If what Solomon says be true, as it is, that " A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold," Mr. Owen must be regarded as exceedingly wealthy. Yet we do not mean to say that he has been without... | |
 | M H S - 1879 - 392 trang
...us, O Christ. -*-* Graciously hear us, O Christ ; graciously hear us, O Lord Christ. A GOOD name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold. PROV. xxii. I. So still the guileless man is blest, To him all crooked paths are straight : Him, on... | |
 | Edward Curtis - 1880 - 48 trang
...recalls a passage from an inspired writer, which I think is most appropriate right here: "A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold." Mr. Watt showed how high a value he placed on money by giving away more than half he ever made. He... | |
 | Harry Willard French - 1880 - 384 trang
...Bible-reading, the words he repeated were far from the page on which his eyes rested. " 'A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, And loving favor rather than silver and gold.' "What is the meaning of all this, I wonder? Some*-' mystery underlies it which I must solve before... | |
 | Philip Schaff - 1889 - 180 trang
...keep my name pure and blameless, and avoid even the appearance of evil. ''Prov. 22, 1. A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold. Ecoles. 7, 1. A good name is better than precious ointment. 1 Cor. 9, 15. It were better for me to... | |
 | 1881 - 122 trang
...take it, the voice of a heavenly monitor by our side cries in grave, earnest tones, "A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold" In order to understand the advice so tersely given let us first look at the terms employed, or the... | |
 | Mark Hopkins - 1881 - 430 trang
...few. In the Scriptures a desire for this is encouraged, and it is set above property. " A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold." With many, reputation is dearer than life, and as society is now constituted, the means of enjoying... | |
 | Mark Hopkins - 1881 - 416 trang
...few. In the Scriptures a desire for this is encouraged, and it is set above property. " A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold." With many, reputation is dearer than life, and as society is now constituted, the means of enjoying... | |
 | Samuel Sullivan Cox - 1883 - 112 trang
...to his home in Indiana. The theme over his remains was well chosen : "A good name is rather to l>e chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold." Until the last flower faded from the earth around his home, loving crowds thronged to the cemetery,... | |
 | Loomis Joseph Campbell - 1884 - 442 trang
...moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold. LXXXVIII. — NIAGARA BRAINARD. JOHN GC BRAINARD was born in Connecticut, in 1796, and received his... | |
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A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold. 
