...SPIRITUAL TRADESMAN AND THE HIGH HONOUES CONFERRED UPON HIM. " Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men." — Prov. xxii. 29. OF all the subjects that can be laid before the church of God, that which debaseth...

...abundant rewards. " The hand of the diligent maketh rich." "Seest thou a man diligent in his business, he shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men." The pleasure, the independence, and the power arising from knowledge, are the rewards of intellectual...

...profit " which the industrious man reaps. Solompn says, " Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men." In other words, he who is diligent in business will generally rise in the scale of society. Though...

...not the ancient landmark which thy fathers have set. 28. Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men. LESSON LXXIII. A Mother's Influence. .«*• 1. "I WAS a dull boy," said Judge B , in answer to some...

...endeavour to climb. Solomon sets it down as an aphorism, " Seest thou a man diligent in his business, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men" (Prov. xxii. 29). But whether it happen to have that effect or no, it will have a better ; for it will...

...is a lion without ; I shall be slain in the streets, &c. Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men. — Prov. xxii. 13. 29; xxvi. 13. Drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. — Prov. xxiii. 21. I went...

...injure in their projected removal of ancient landmarks. " Si-est thou u man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings: he shall not stand before mean men." Would we then stand in n favourable light before the King of kings ? Let us endeavour to be " not slothful...

...There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets. Seest thou a man diligent in his business ? He shall stand before kings ; He shall not stand before mean men. I went by the field of the slothful, And by the vineyard of the man void of understanding, And, lo. it...

...but of every one that is hasty, only to want. xxii. 29. Seest thou a man diligent in his business, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men. xxxi. 27. A good wife eateth not the bread of idleness. Eccl. v. 12. The sleep of a labouring man is...

...having, among his instructions to me when a boy, frequently repeated a proverb of Solomon, " Seest Ihou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men," I thence considered industry as a means of obtaining wealth and distinction, which encouraged me; though...