...in the eye." LECTUEE XVI. SBltmt 1m: nr, §nuu raft tofo $>um. READ ECCLES. ix. 13-18 : x. 1-15. ' If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength ; but wisdom is profitable to direct." LORD BACON said, "Knowledge is power," and during the last hundred...

...people. Vacant looks will tell the laboring preacher there is something wrong or wanting. Solomon says, ' If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then he must put to more strength.' Just so! And he who preaches under such a ceiling will soon 2nd voice...

...Whoso removeth stones shall be hurt therewith ; and he that cleaveth wood shall be endangered thereby. aint. 13 The carpenter stretcheth out his rule : but wisdom is profitable to direct. 1 1 Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment ; and 7a...

...direct application of physical and intellectual says Solomon, " ia strength." " A wise man is strong." " If the iron be blunt and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength ; but wisdom ia profitable to direet." " Perhaps it ia owing," says Hamilton, " to the imperfeet sympathies...

...direct application of physical and intellectual *ays Solomon, " is strength." " A wise man is strong." " If the iron be blunt and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength ; bat wisdom is profitable to direct." " Perhaps it is owing," says Hamilton, " to the imperfect sympathies...

...physical and intellectual says Solomon, " is strength." " A wise man ia strong." " If the iron be blnnt and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength ; but wisdom is profitable to direct." " Perhaps it is owing," says Hamilton, " to the imperfect sympathies...

...they love to wander from God, and are bent to backslide in duty, as the wise man says, Eccles. 10 : 10. " If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength." Labor to heat the iron, seeing a blunt iron, if hot, will pierce more easily than a sharper, if cold....

...subject, and employ sufficient vigour and resolution in impressing it on his pupils. If the instrument " be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength." But this mode belonged to the time when the study of Latin was commenced by committing to memory 3B...

...Father's dealings with them harder than His heart would be disposed to make them. The wise Solomon says, " If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength : but wisdom is profitable to direct" (Eccles. x. 10). O how many there are who, after all their careful...

...apparent, as well as the necessity that our exertions should be well directed in order to be adequate. "If the iron be blunt and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength ;" and it is to be feared that waste of power has ensued and will ensue in respect of the subject before...