 | 1866 - 496 pages
...gate. Note 4, p. 42. Thus do the generations of the earth Go to the grave and issue from the womb " One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever. The sun also ariseth and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose. The wind goeth... | |
 | Edwin Hubbell Chapin - Sermons, American - 1869 - 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... | |
 | Henry Clay Fish - Sermons - 1871 - 926 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 variety,... | |
 | Charles Colcock Jones - Georgia - 1873 - 622 pages
...in the equally frail memory of to-morrow. Under such circumstances emphatically is it true that "one generation passeth away and another generation cometh ; but the earth abideth forever. There is no remembrance of former things : neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are... | |
 | William Benjamin Hayden - Eschatology - 1873 - 226 pages
...shall not be moved." * * * " Thy throne is established of old, Thou art from everlasting." * * " One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever." — Ps. xcm. 1, 2 ; Ps. XOVI. 10; EOOL. I. 4. THESE words convey an idea of perpetuity and endurance... | |
 | Charles C. Jones - 1873 - 622 pages
...the equally frail memory of to-morrow. Under such circumstances emphatically is "it true that "one generation passeth away and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth forever. There is no remembrance of former things: neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are... | |
 | ellias warner leaven worth - 1873 - 418 pages
...COMPILED BY WILLIAM AND ELIAS W.. LEAVEN WORTH, Til IS 1ST OP GREAT BARRINGTON, MASS., IN 1827. *' One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh ; but the earth abideth forever." " Honor thy father and' thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God... | |
 | David Swing - History - 1874 - 172 pages
...Christ as He is freely offered to all in the Gospel. INFLUENCE OF DEMOCRACY ON CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE. One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth forever. Ecclesiastes i : 4. This verse from the Bible is read, not as a text out 01 which a discourse may be... | |
 | John Wesley Hanson - Future punishment - 1875 - 94 pages
...connected. THE SUBJECT DETERMINES THE DURATION DESCRIBED BY THE ADJECTIVE. Prof. Tayler Lewis says, "'One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh ; but the earth abideth forever.' This certainly indicates, not an endless eternity in the strictest sense of the word, but only a future... | |
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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. 
