...here, (e) " are numbered among the children of God, and their lot is among the saints." (f) " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun," says the wise preacher. The love of life is natural to us, and in our very frame and constitution is...

...vivid rays all is a dark, and dead, and dreary waste. In this sense, above all others, " truly the light is sweet ; and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun !" The soul of man cannot prosper, the work of grace does not appear, unless the reviving rays of this...

...was the light of men. " The light of the body is the eye ;" and a precious gift it is. " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." But the faculty of vision, as well as some others, is bestowed in a higher degree of acuteness on certain...

...the stars which thou hast ordained ; Lord, what is man that thou thus visitest him \h For truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun :i all the glory be to the Father of Iight,j4 who commandeth the morning, and causeth the day spring...

...to pierce its density, as that the light and heat shall be penetrating while diffusive. " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." ( Eccl. xi. 7-) Although our great poet makes the enemy of God and man apostrophize the sun in terms...

...•wisdom. " God saw the light was good." Truly, light is sweet fo the eyes, it rejoiceth, the heart. A pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the Sun. Light is pure, therefore a fit emblem of holiness, without which no mail shall see the Lord. " God saw the P...

...Whatever theory of the Sun the ingenuity of man may invent, we know from experienee, that " truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun.'* the inquisition in Portugal, when brought forth to be martyred, on beholding the light of the Sun,...

...mistake not, is the following text in English from Ecclesiastes, chapter XL, verses 7, 8. Truly the light is sweet, And a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun : But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all ; Yet let him remember the days of darkness...

...ISAIAH lx, l. Arise, shine, for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. Truly, light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun, says the Preacher. But the interchange of night with day adds to its beauty, and the longest night...

...doth in the outward. The light of the eyes, saith the wise man, rejoieeth the heart. And truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the tun. This we all find by daily experience, and so we do too, that the light and beat of the sun agitate...