 | 1877 - 488 pages
...If he acquires himself a good name, it will be better for him than titles obtained otherwise. Hence the day of death is better than the day of one's birth. Until the day of man's death, dost thou wait for him to repent, that he may incline to the right way,... | |
 | David Johnston - 1880 - 610 pages
...apostle Paul afterwards announced in Philippians I. 21 ? Yet Hengstenberg speaks as if the statement that the day of death is better than the day of one's birth were not an intimation of sacred truth, but a mere human expression of discontentment with the existing... | |
 | Scottish pulpit - 1880 - 300 pages
...nay, not a little at variance with the prevailing and ordinary sentiments of mankind, — to assert that the day of death is better than the day of one's birth. Is it not reckoned a subject of joy and congratulation among families, when a child is born into the... | |
 | 1880 - 298 pages
...nay, not a little at variance with the prevailing and ordinary sentiments of mankind, — to assert that the day of death is better than the day of one's birth. Is it not reckoned a subject of joy and congratulation among families, when a child is born into the... | |
 | Marcus Moritz Kalisch - 1880 - 704 pages
...eat, and to drink, and to be merry".b On the other hand, he maintains, in a very different strain, "The day of death is better than the day of one's birth; it is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting; sorrow is better than... | |
 | Edward Hayes Plumptre - 1881 - 312 pages
...I both defy, Not wondering at the present and the past." Sonn. 123. Does Koheleth utter his belief that "the day of death is better than the day of one's birth" (Eccl. vii. i), "that an untimely birth is better than the longest life" (Eccl. vi. 3), as growing... | |
 | Edward Hayes Plumptre - 1881 - 306 pages
...I both defy, Not wondering at the present and the past." Sonn. 123. Does Koheleth utter his belief that "the day of death is better than the day of one's birth" (Eccl. vii. i), "that an untimely birth is better than the longest life" (Eccl. vi. 3), as growing... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1882 - 782 pages
...knowledge of the times and seasons — then we shall die ; and in that case it is no small consolation that •• the day. of death is better than the day of one's birth." I. First, then, OUH DEATHDAY is BETTER THAN OUR BIRTHDAY: and it is so for this among other reasons... | |
 | 1882 - 666 pages
...heathen said, To me to die is gain; he saw mortality to be a mercy. Then, what шау а believer say ? The day of death is better than the day of one's birth. — T. Watson408 While the earth remaineth, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and... | |
 | Joseph Sanderson - 1883 - 514 pages
...t.lin S.sn nf tlio sinnor'gs^vlmir Of none then, save the true Christian, can it be correctly affirmed that " The day of death is better than the day of one's birth." 1. This affirmation is true, inasmuch as the day of the Christian's death brings deliverance from all... | |
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A good name is more fragrant than rich perfume, and the day of death is better than the day of one's birth. 
