...their privileges ! To borrow the poetic and highlywrought description of Ecclesiastes, (chap, xii.,) " the sun," and " the light," and " the moon," and "the stars," are not yet "darkened;' nor do "the clouds return after the 'rain." " The keepers of the house tremble...

...asserted, " Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the evil •', days come, namely, before the sun, and the light, and the )< moon, and the stars be darkened," &c. In the first verse he ^ lays down a proposition concerning age, which is illustrated...

...language, than that in Eccl. xii. 2, where Solomon describes the winter of life in eastern imagery. • • The sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars, are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain." The joys of life assume a less interesting appearance than they once did, and the...

...understanding, its quickness of apprehension, its acuteness of reasoning, its solidity of judgment. Thus, " the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars," are darkened, and the " clouds return after rain." The disordered body becomes incapable of serving the mind, and is like an instrument out...

...with their former rapidity and clearness : the apprehension is duller, the perception more confused; "the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened." As the consequence of the increased weakness of the mental faculties in age, the caret and troubles...

...that have been given of it. ' The Preacher (Eccles. xi. 2.) speaks of old age as a time, ' 2. When the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain; ' 3. When the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves,...

...affliction come, and the years of old age approach, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them. 2. Before the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars, become dark to thee, and the cloude return after rain, or one trouble come upon another. 3. When (the...

...tottering toward the grave will deem him fit to enter again upon the busy scenes of life ? With him the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars, are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain. He has reached the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men bow...

...Sacred Books » When " the years shall draw nigh in which I shall say I have no pleasure in them ; when the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars, are darkened, and the clouds return not after the rain — when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men bow themselves...

...tottering toward the grave will deem him fit to enter again upon the busy scenes of life ? With him the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars, are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain. He has reached the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men bow...