Daily Bible Illustrations (Volume 6); Being Original Readings for a Year, on Subjects from Sacred History, Biography, Goegraphy, Antiquities, and Theology, Especially Designed for the Family Circle (Paperback)

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1858. Excerpt: ... The longer this habit of consideration is postponed, the more burdensome it becomes. There is much in a heart-searching retrospect over the earliest and most innocent period of life to awaken compunction and regret; but if the wholesome check which the habit of considering the latter end imposes, be not formed in good time, the blackening horror of the later and more advanced period makes that early time seem bright in the comparison, and gives birth to feelings which have found expression in such words as these: -- "Lost days of youth Oh holy days, When joy was blest with prayer and praise-- When this sad heart, now deeply dyed With many a thought unsanctifled, Trembled at every venial stain, And shrunk from sin as now from pain Oh, not that even in that hour Of early reason's dawning power, My soul was pure from thoughts of sin; But now so dark the past has been, That those first stains of young offence Bear the light hue of innocence."* TWENTY-FIRST WEEK--MONDAY. THE RECHABITES. JEREMIAH XXXV. Therk was a remarkable people whose presence in Jerusalem, to which they had repaired for refuge on the approach of the Chaldean army, in the time of king Jehoiakim, afforded to the prophet Jeremiah an occasion, of which he was directed to avail himself, of administering a significant rebuke to the Israelites. These were the Rechabites, of whom we seem to learn from 1 Chron. ii. 55, that they were identical with or a branch of the Kenites, who were of the family of Jethro, the father-in Uw of Moses, and came with the Israelites into Palestine and * The Christian Physiologist. London, 1830. there continued to lead their former mode of life, as in the instance of Heber the Kenite. Judges iv. 11. When, therefore, we are told that Jonadab, the son (descendant) of Rechat, and who is generally c...