...being. Our days fly swiftly away. Time is always in motion, always hastening our lives to a close. We know not what a day or an hour may bring forth. Some sudden disease, some unexpected accident may hurry us from the stage of life sooner than we think....

...have had during the last week solemn and affecting warnings; let us not neglect to profit by them. We know not what a day or an hour may bring forth. In so dreadful an uncertainty, shall we continue careless and indifferent ? In so perilous a situation...

...seize: a moment we may wish When worlds want wealth to buy." Oh ! may all think of these things, for " we know not what a day, or an hour may bring forth." The uncertainty of time should make us watchful; the * Ps. xc. 12. value of it should make us concerned;...

...debt will expose us to defraud others of their jusJ due. Numerous are the casualties of human life. We know not what a day or an hour may bring forth. Death may seize us unexpectedly, before we can cancel the claims which lie against us. Sickness may...

...after four o'clock the same evening, in the possession of perfect health ! The divine admonition, that we know not what a day or an hour may bring forth, has an ineffable emphasis to those who reside in this Country ; and during the ravages of this mysterious...

...unless he is wealthy, can afford to »cctpt any one of these three missions, without danger of being ruined in his circumstances. In opposition to every...vigorous health, and, after his arrival at the place ol ¡'is destination, he may be prostrated in a moment by sickness, or his health may be impaired in...

...these stations. A minister thus sent abroad, is equally liable to sickness with all other men. ЛУе know not what a day or an hour may bring forth. He...or his health may be impaired in the public service by severe and close attention to the duties of his mission. Under such circumstances, it may become...

...hearts, and how incessantly our great adversary is striving to make use of them for our destruction ? We know not what a day or an hour may bring forth. \Ye may be as far from thinking of evil as at any moment of our lives, and yet evil may arise from...

...letters of blood before us, and the solemn lesson is sounding with a voice of thunder in our ears, that we know not what a day or an hour may bring forth. In which cir* cumstances, I cannot doubt that you are resolved and prepared to devote yourself with...

...the righteous." When we remember how short life is, by what a frail tenure we possess it, — that we know not what a day or an hour may bring forth, — that, in this very limited season, our eternal salvation must be secured, it is surely impossible...