...to note, y that say, we will go into inch a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, aud get gain, whereas ye know not what shall be on the...morrow. For what is your life! It is even as a vapour, lhaj appearetb; for a lit:!- timi.-, and then, vanishetb. away." — What more worthy of the attention...

............ . ...... 175 On Parental and Filial Duty. . ........ REFLECTIONS, ON THE UNCERTAINTY OF LIFE. " For what is your life ? It is even as a vapour, "...appeareth for a little while, and then " vanisheth away *." W HAT is your life ? is an important question to every created being ; and convinced as we must...

...to the close of this earthly existence ! Every year adds to what is past, and leaves less to come. " What is your life? It is even as a vapour that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away." What is it, when compared with the amount of labour to be accomplished,...

...to-morrow we will go to such a city, and continue there a year, and traffick, 14 and get gain : Who know not what shall be on the morrow ; for what is your life ? It is a vapour that appeareth 15 for a little time, and then vanisheth away: Instead of your saying, If the...

...the vanity, the brevity, the uncertainty of life, upon the continuance of which all depends. " Go to now, ye that " say, to-day or to-morrow we will go...on the morrow. For what is your life ? it is even " a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then " vanisheth away." " And he thought within himself...

...constant dependence upon God, even in all the common affairs of life ! Let us not say therefore, that to-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city and...on the morrow ; for what is your life ? it is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time and then vanishes away ; for that ye ought to say, if the...

...love with the present world than with the world to come. " Go to, now, (says the indignant Apostle) ye that say, To-day, or to-morrow, we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, arid buy, and sell, and get gain." And truly life is but a vapour to those who misapply its purpose...

...law, and judgeth the law ; but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. 1* Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow; for what is your life ? It is even a vapour that appeareth for a little time, and theu vanisheth away. 13 Go to now,e ye that say, To-day,...

...uncertainty of what he actually holds. To such men I would repeat the serious admonition of St. James : Go to now, ye that say, today or to-morrow we will go into such a city, and buy, and sell, and get gain, whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow ; for what is even your...

...Memoir, p. 18.) And surely the injunction of the apostle James, ought to have some weight here. " Go to now, ye that say, to-day or to-morrow we will go into...It is even as a vapour that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, if the Lord will, we shall live, and do this,...