 | Thomas Tunstall Haverfield - Sermons, English - 1835 - 304 pages
...Preacher—" Man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets : or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher...the spirit shall return unto God who gave it." * The body, then, * Eccles. xii. 5, 6, 7. being restored to the ground — earth to earth, ashes to ashes,... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1835 - 608 pages
...the circulation of the blood? Frank. It must be the 6th to the end of the 7th : " Or ever the cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher...at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return to God who gave it." Mamma. Yes, that is a beautiful and... | |
 | Sermons, English - 1830 - 820 pages
...because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets. Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher...at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was ; and the spirit shall return to God who gave it." But old age, while it is thus a... | |
 | James Ellice - Future life - 1835 - 230 pages
...Man, even unto the days of St. Paul. — With this Scripture before us, every doubt is annihilated. broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain,...at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was ; and the spirit, unto God that gave it. The spirit of man, perisheth not, as the body.... | |
 | Matthew Prior - England - 1835 - 364 pages
...and looks deceitful all, and vain. TEXTS CHIEFLY ALLUDED TO IN BOOK III. Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher...the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Kcclesiastes, xii. 6. The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hastetb. to bis place where... | |
 | William Cooke - 1835 - 84 pages
...period was drawing near when he was to be called to his " long home."— "When the silver cord should be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher...broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.—When the dust should return to the earth as it was, arid the spirit return to God who gave... | |
 | Whittington Henry Landon - Sermons, English - 1835 - 198 pages
...to be a strange and an unknown thing. Man feels it not, and he deems that he needs it not. But " if the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern," and when evil days are come; when desire is failing, and appetite flags; when we " cannot any more... | |
 | John Henry Newman, Saint John Henry Newman - Spiritual life - 2003 - 212 pages
...the streets, and the daughters of music are brought low, and desire fails: or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher...the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern." (Eccles 12: i, 34, 6) We leave the goods of earth before they leave us. Let us not shrink from this... | |
 | John P Kuoni, Helene Hollwegs Kuoni - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 130 pages
...= One's death is a sad occasion for their friends and loved ones. (v.6) Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher...the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Life is ending, "silver cord" and "golden bowl" = symbols of life. The "silver cord" holds body and... | |
 | Kathleen Lalani Mayfield - Soul - 2003 - 378 pages
...man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets: Verse 6 Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher...the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. When a person dies after seventy and beyond it's referred to as the silver cord being loosed these... | |
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... or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. 
