...contemplation of those thousands which he saw die before his eyes in the wilderness ; " in the morning they are like grass which groweth up, in the morning it flourisheth and groweth up, in the evening itjs cut down and withereth." The like also pleadeth Job, cli. xiv. 1,2. and then turning to God he...

...cares and troubles ! How uncertain, changing, and perishing are all things human ! " Man is as the grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth...up ; in the evening it is cut down and withereth." Our time is short, and yet the work before us is great and important. Swiftly and silently the time...

...away as with a flood, they are as a sleep : in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. .6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth. up ; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. 7 B'or we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. 8 Thou hast set our iniquities...

...away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass K-liicli groweth up. 6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in...by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. 8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. 9 For...

...dieth he shall carry nothing away ; his glory shall not descend after him. In the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up ; in the evening it is cut down and withered. All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust. His breath goeth...

...he flourisheth ; the wind passeth over it, and it is gone, and the place thereof knoweth it no more. In the morning, it flourisheth and groweth up ; in the evening, it is cut down and withereth."* Have you not, reader, known this in your own circle? You have been favoured with earthly comforts ;...

...stroke, proclaim aloud, that all flesh is but as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass : in the morning it flourisheth and groweth up — in the evening it is cut down and withereth. But, were this the only lesson which Mr. Durant's pages are adapted to impart, they would fall far...

...glory of man, as the flower of the grass ; the grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away. In the morning it flourisheth and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down and withereth !" — What is man in honor ? He is a shadow that passeth rapidly away. What is man in his best estate...

...are as a sleep: in the mornr p.. i«j. 15. ing ' they are like grass which || groweth up. i or^S 6 f r camels be y 8 h Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our ' secret tint in the light of thy countenance. 9...

...in the night. Thou earnest them away as with a flood ; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth,...up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.7 Oh that his prayer may be the...