...I might never again have so favorable an opportunity to consider this passage, — ' As cold water to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.' It is a proverb, the truth of which you are now feeling ; hence, great is the propriety of improving...

...this seriptural beverage. Solomon, in reference to its invigorating properties, says, ' As cold water to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.' The prophet Isaiah, in depicting the blessedness of the church when under God's peculiar favour, represents...

...if it be found in the way of righteousness." ' i See Proverbs xvi. 81. CHAPTER XII. "As cold -raters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country."— PKOVESBS xxv. 25 DIARY. " Fifty and five of the years of my pilgrimage on earth have passed away; and...

...is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house. 25 As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. 26 A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring....

...hatred therewith. 7. Faithful are the wounds of a friend. 8. The hand of the diligent maketh rich. 9. As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. 10. As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly. 11. There is that scattereth...

...iv. 13, 14. I Isaiah xliii. 2. •• Psalm xlviii. 14. language which shall accomplish ibe saying, " As cold waters to a thirsty soul. so is good news from a far country.'*" It were vain to send him to Natural Theology, which cannot tell him of a propitiation for sin. It were...

...the days of the afflicted are evil, but a cheerful heart has a continual feast. 25:25 Like cold water to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. 15:30 The light of the eyes rejoices the heart, and good news refreshes the bones. 13:17 A bad messenger...

...Thirty-Sixth Street NEW YORK CITY THE EDITORIAL VOL. XVIII DECEMBER 1917 NO. 4 CHRISTMAS "As cold water to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country." The birth of Christ was good tidings to the thirsty world-soul. He came from His own high realm of...

...on HUMANITY; Duke of Edinburgh on ROYALTY; Frost, Meredith on WIVES; Wolfe on WOMEN Correspondence As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. Bible, Proverbs An intention to write never turns into a letter. A letter must happen to one like a...

...rain for. JANE AUSTEN (1775-1817), English novelisl. Mr. |ohn Knighlley, in imma. rh. 34 (1816). 4 1 BIBLE, HEBREW. Proverbs 25:25. 3 Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living. EMILY...