...knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or tliat, or whether they both shall be alike good. 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 ; for...

...statute, for ever. You will observe, 1. The requirement of oil to cause the lamp of the sanctuary to burn. Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun. Eccl. xi. 7. In the absence of that glorious luminary, artificial light becomes a great convenience....

...beautiful and wondrous indeed ! But one thing more and the pledge is yours — now make it see ! " for truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." Let it at one glance receive and recognize the extended landscape, with all its varieties of feature,...

...elastic frame and joyous spirit, keenly appreciating what the Preacher, the son of David, once said : "Truly, the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." Him, tranquil scholar, unlike brainstricken scholars so very many, the sun he thus welcomed smote not...

...this candle shined upon poor Job ; and I hope I may say also that it has shined, ere now, upon me. " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." And when the Lord lighted up the Apostles on the day of Pentecost, he searched Jerusalem with these...

...; for the glory * Rev. vii. 14—17. of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof."* " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun," — how delightful then to the Christian,. to live in the blaze of such a sun as this ! Again the revelator...

...whether they be good or evil, Revelation tells us, shall a man be judged. " Truly," says the Preacher, " 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 : for...

...are used to set forth his glory, nature, to make his beauties known, must mingle colours not her own. Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun, but the Sun of righteousness emits brighter beams of radiancy, and souls whose darkness has been dispersed...

...when you wake up, you will perhaps feel so cheerful that you will think of those words of Solomon, " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun ! " and you will thankfully say with David, " I laid me down and slept ; I awaked, for the Lord sustained...

...made us able to say, his Word is a lamp unto our feet, and a light unto our path. Osaith this man, "Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." "0 house of Jacob ! come ye and let us walk in the light of the Lord." For the mountain of the Lord's...