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" Cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days. "
Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Rev. Claudius Buchanan, D.D., Late ... - Σελίδα 173
των Hugh Pearson - 1819 - 395 σελίδες
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Chemistry of the Four Seasons ...: An Essay, Principally Concerning Natural ...

Thomas Griffiths (Professor of chemistry in the Medical College of St. Bartholomew's Hospital) - 1846 - 526 σελίδες
...germination and growth of seeds This phenomenon is alluded to in the following beautiful metaphor — " Cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days." In oriental countries, bread is synonymous with rice, which is cast upon the soil, saturated by the...

Simple Sketches

John Todd - 1846 - 270 σελίδες
...father, I do, a great many things 1 — for to-day I asked my teacher about that beautiful text, ' Cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days ;' — and what, father, do you think?" " Why, child, it must mean that we ought to be charitable to...

The Juvenile missionary herald

Baptist missionary society - 1846 - 918 σελίδες
...the custom in India and China. This practice explains another very beautiful passage of Scripture, " Cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days," Ecclesiastes xi. 1. Bread here means rather seed-corn, or seed-rice ; and the meaning of the whole...

Biographical Sketches of the Moody Family: Embracing Notices of Ten ...

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney Moody - 1847 - 182 σελίδες
...rendering himself so dependent ; but the old clergyman replied, " Elder Seward, does not the Bible say, ' cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days?'" Towards evening he reached the city ; and. the good people of the city, then, as now, ever ready to...

The Churchman's companion, Τόμος 7

1850 - 718 σελίδες
...and as they had meted, so was it miraculously meted to them again. " A good turn is never lost ;" " Cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days;" "Good measure, pressed down, and running over," did GOD return into their bosoms. The money was counted...

Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, Τόμοι 7-8

1847 - 862 σελίδες
...into the pond. This explains a passage in Ecclesiastes, more frequently quoted than understood — ' Cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days ;' which means that, in the ordinary providence of Ood, we shall enjoy the reward of a good work in...

Additional Remains of the Rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Late Minister of St ...

Robert Murray M'Cheyne - 1847 - 580 σελίδες
...whole Bible shows, then, that the best way to have plenty in this world is to give liberally. (1.) "Cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days." This refers to the sowing of rice. The rice in the East is always sown when the fields are flooded...

Sir Roland Ashton: A Tale of the Times

Lady Catharine Long - 1847 - 596 σελίδες
...the passage — which, as has been mentioned, he had had inscribed on Mr. Anstruther's monument : ' Cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days' — with an earnest determination, more than ever to ' spend and be spent,' in the service of that...

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal

1847 - 854 σελίδες
...with the old man's last observation. 'That I take, sir, to be the meaning of the Scripture proverb, " Cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days."1 ' True ; and I think I may apply that proverb with equal appropriateness to a lesson which...

Expository discourses on the book of Ruth

Thomas Northcote Toller - 1848 - 106 σελίδες
...through all Shushan. And we are assured that no work of faith and labour of Jove shall be forgotten. " Cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days." "Though seed lie buried long in dust, It shan't deceive our hope." But that which always particularly...




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