 | 1808 - Počet stránok 604
...publicly preached. His private visits irf his parish were constant, stated, and universal. He thought it better to visit the house of mourning, than the house of feasting; and continually sought out the abodes of affiiriion and sorrow, of poverty and distress. He considered... | |
 | 1809 - Počet stránok 612
...publicly preached. His private visits in his parish were constant, stated, and universal. He thought it better to visit the house of mourning, than the house of feasting ; and continually sought out the abodes of affliction, and sorrow, of poverty and distress. He considered... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1837 - Počet stránok 488
...Mine has been a life of unusual peace," said he, " with none of those nearer ties which produce tin• keenest emotions of joy and of sorrow. Those few real...for myself, to prove that it is, indeed, better to 2 A visit the home of mourning than the bouse of feasting, and I trust that in administering comfort... | |
 | 1844 - Počet stránok 398
...CINCINNATI, OCTOBER, 1844. CEMETERY OF MOUNT AUBURN. (HEE ENGRAVING.) THE " wise man " informs us, that it is better to visit the house of mourning than the house of feasting. A thoughtful mind ean seareely enter the eottage of afflietion, or the "house of thn dead," without... | |
 | Arthur Wilcockson - 1859 - Počet stránok 714
...undefiled, &c. always visits the fatherless and widows in their affliction. Christ always found it better to visit the house of mourning than the house of feasting. He said, He was " not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel ; for the whole need not... | |
 | 1866 - Počet stránok 568
...dying, death, the grave, widowhood of my wife, orphanage of my children, and so on ? Pastor. — "It is better to visit the house of mourning than the house of feasting." This " mourning " I conceive is not restricted to the idea of bereavement, but includes that also of... | |
 | 1876 - Počet stránok 404
...both the physical and the spiritual natures of those with whom he came in contact, saying, " It is better to visit the house of mourning than the house of feasting," and " The, whole need not a physician, but they who are sick." He forgets that if it be true that God sent... | |
 | Marcus Dods - 1889 - Počet stránok 426
...and signs of misery, to "abhor the affliction of the afflicted," and practically to deny that it is better to visit the house of mourning than the house of feasting — this is simply to furnish proof that we know nothing of the spirit of Christ. We may find ourselves... | |
 | Wesley J. Fuerst - 1975 - Počet stránok 284
...SMELLS SWEETER than the finest oint1\ ment, and the day of death is better than the day of a birth. Better to visit the house of mourning than the house of feasting; for to be mourned is the lot of every man, and 3 the living should take this to heart. Grief is better... | |
 | 1831 - Počet stránok 740
...than wit; orthodoxy better than refined taste ; sermons more instructive than tales : and as it is better to visit the house of mourning than the house of feasting, so, to the serious or the sad, the Amethyst is adapted to supply edification and consolation, not to... | |
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His wisdom, has ordained for myself, to prove that it is, indeed, better to visit the house of mourning than the house of feasting, and I trust that in administering comfort here we shall still find cause to say so. 