 | Louisa W. Ogden Turner - New Jerusalem Church - 1856 - 220 pages
...Scripture really teaches the destruction of the universe, it contradicts itself when it says : " One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever." (Eccl. i. 4.) And, " Who laid the foundations of the earth that it should not be removed forever."... | |
 | Henry Clay Fish - Sermons - 1857 - 866 pages
...in beauty and song, as if decay had never passed over any of their leafy boughs. So of men : " one generation passeth away, and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever" (Eccl., i. 4). The same to the new generation that cometh — the same scene of weary labor, endless... | |
 | Henry Clay Fish - Sermons - 1857 - 874 pages
...in beauty and song, as if decay had never passed over any of their leafy boughs. So of men : " one generation passeth away, and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever" (Eccl., i. 4). The same to the new generation that cometh — the same scene of weary labor, endless... | |
 | Edwin Hubbell Chapin - Sermons, American - 1859 - 370 pages
...is man himself, who is involved with both these extremes ? What is the purpose of his life ? " One generation passeth away and another generation cometh : but the earth abideth forever." In this flowing tide of change he. lives and acts. But " what profit hath " he " of all his labor which... | |
 | Charles Louis Hequembourg - Plurality of worlds - 1859 - 408 pages
...comet, or at the insane or charlatanical predictions of a Miller ? The Scriptures teach us that " one generation passeth away, and another generation cometh ; but the earth abideth forever." (Eccl. i. 4.) They teach us that Christ will reign as the Son of David forever, and that of his kingdom... | |
 | Robert Cooper (secularist.) - Bible - 1860 - 88 pages
...not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints. 1 Cor. xiv. 33. 387. One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh ; but the earth abideth forever, Eccles. i. 4. 388. All these things live and remain for ever, for all uses, and they are all obedient.... | |
 | Samuel Noble - New Jerusalem Church - 1860 - 554 pages
...others which affirm the direct contrary. Some of these I will here subjoin, with remarks.* " ' One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh ; but the earth abideth forever' (Eccl. i. 4). ' He that buildeth his sanctuary like high places, like the earth which he hath established... | |
 | United States - 1862 - 984 pages
...paper, I !now respectfully recall your attention to what may be called "compensated emancipation." A nation may be said to consist of its territory,...territory is the only part which is of certain durability. 1 ' One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever." It... | |
 | United States. Department of State - United States - 1862 - 984 pages
...paper, I now respectfully recall your attention to what may be called ".compensated emancipation." A nation may be said to consist of its territory,...away, and another generation cometh, but the earth abide th forever." It is of the first importance to duly consider, and estimate, this ever-enduring... | |
 | Families - 1862 - 360 pages
...to be such an one in his life, as he wisheth to be found at the hour of his death. — A Kempis. One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh ; but the earth abideth forever. Here we have no continuing city, but we seek one to come. What man is he that desireth life, and loveth... | |
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A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability. "One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever. 
