...embracing, and omnipotent love, is its joyful and satisfying portion through all eternity. " Surely the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." Each revealed perfection of God, as it enters the heart of man, goes to form a part of the Christian...

...The night and the day are both alike to the individual who labours under the affecting privation. " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." But in vain the morning dawns ; the beams of day break forth in the east ; the sun rises with • Ur CamIib»ll....

...comes, the birds sing, the lambs play, and man partakes of the cheerfulness that spreads all around. " Truly the light is sweet ; and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." Creatures are pleasing ; but none of them can supply the place of God. He is our sun, as well as our...

...lambs play ; the birds carol their notes — every thing seems to welcome the approach of day. Truly light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun. And shall th" Gospel, this day of good things, inspire us with dread and gloom? Is it not intended,...

...all the elements of nature there is none more delightful and beautiful in its effects than light. " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." It diffuses a thousand shades of colouring over the hills, the vales, the rivers, and the boundless...

...the seal;" and this is a pleasure to the soul that understands itself, and its own true interest. " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun;" it " rejoiceth the heart." Hence light is often put for joy and comfort; but no light is comparable...

...sensual enjoyment, and carnal security, would have been ready to exclaim, ' It is good for me to be here. Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun.' This had been your feeling, rather than that derived from "the wisdom is from above ;" — ' It is...

...ariseth, and makes the darkness fly before him, and discovereth all the beauty and lustre of things ; and truly " the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." Nor is it less useful and advantageous for directing our ways, and ordering our several employments...

...and rejeice in them all, yet let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many." " TELLY the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun :" and perhaps the truth of the remark is never felt more forcibly than on a New Year's morning. Not...

...soon he may be " made to possess months of vanity, and have wearisome nights appointed unto him!" " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun : but if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all ; yet let him remember the days of darkness ; for...