...frail and brittle as earthen vessels, they are liable every hourto be hroken, shattered, and dissolved. "Your fathers where are they ? and the prophets do they live for evert" Zech. i. 5. " But we have this treasure in earthen vessels." [ To fir concluded in our next.]...

...Past ages are to us as if they had never been. One generation goeth away, and another cometh: " Our fathers, where are they ? and the prophets, do they live for ever ?" Look around through the kingdoms of the earth, and you behold the cruel ravages of war, and desolating...

...raise up another, and another. A moment's reflection Convinces us of the justness of the reproof. " Our fathers, where are they ; and the prophets, do they live for ever ?" You can look back, and reckon many respectable men, who have often stood in this place, and displayed...

...testimony of our senses, and the records of our species. It is a fact too, that we must all die ! " The fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live for ever ?" " What man is he that liveth and shall not see death ?" Here then revelation comes in, arrayed in...

...evil ways, and from your evil doings ; but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the LORD. Your fathers, where are they ? and the prophets, do they live for ever ? But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold...

...should leave the world when God commands ; and we must all soon follow the deceased to the grave. " Your fathers, where are " they ? And the prophets, do they live for ever ?" Zech. i. .5. 8. You who are the attendants should do all in your respective stations diligently...

...of all the gems of the East. Patriarchs, prophets, princes, statesmen — all have disappeared. 'Our fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?' St. Paul was affected by this review ; although he took into his calculation only a part of the great...

...before a large and attentive audience, many of whom knew and revered the deceased, from Zech. i. 5. The Fathers where are they, and the prophets, do they live for ever ? Thus the ordinary tokens of regard were not withheld on the melancholy occasion. His executors have...

...They are subject, like every other earthly enjoyment, to the influence of changes and circumstances. "Your Fathers, where are they? and the Prophets, do they live for ever ?" Tne Lord, " who holdeth the stars in his right hand, and walketh in the midst of the golden candlesticks,"...

...and that underneath us are thine everlasting arms. Creatures die ; friends and relations die ; the fathers, where are they ? And the prophets, do they live for ever ? But the Lord liveth, and blessed be our rock, and let the God of our salvation be exalted. May we...