 | John Maxcy Zane - Banking law - 1900 - 866 pages
...required for such a ruling it could only be found in a misapplication of the Scriptural injunction that it is better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasting. If the demand is made upon the personal representative, it seems that it must be a demand of payment... | |
 | William Thomas Moore - Spiritual life - 1904 - 518 pages
...greatest victory to the soul. Temporal blessings may be spiritual curses, and often are. It is still true that it is better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasting. But in all such cases we must remember that while "weeping endureth for the night, joy cometh with the... | |
 | Abraham Godshalk - 1912 - 314 pages
...for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes." Ps. 119:71. The wise man says that "it is better to go to the house of mourning, than to the house of feasting." So Job, when he heard that all he had was to be taken away from him, and that all his children, in... | |
 | Freemasonry - 1913 - 936 pages
...brevity and uncertainty of human life and human fortune. It was a wise saying of the old Hebrew King, that it is better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasting. Our sorrows are our best instructors. Death is the great teacher ; and calamities bring blessings with... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - New England - 1916 - 318 pages
...There is supposed to have been a general conviction around the Green that it was vastly nicer to go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasting. But although Edmund preferred the feasting, he took the funerals philosophically. He liked to have his... | |
 | Washington Gladden - Congregational churches - 1918 - 282 pages
...which seem to teach this. The author of the Book of Ecclesiastes, in one of his darker moods, tells us that it is better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasting; that sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.... | |
 | Frederick Carl Eiselen - Bible - 1918 - 356 pages
...there is nothing better than to eat, drink, and have a joyous time in general,21 stands the assertion that it is better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasting,22 or the summing up of the whole discussion in the words : "Fear God, and keep his commandments."23... | |
 | Israel Joseph Zevin - 1926 - 346 pages
...Gordon nearly fainted. 146 CHOOSING A WIFE FOR A WIDOWER QOLOMON was a wise king, and when he *•* said that it is better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasting he hit the right mark. As a shadchen I always prefer to go to funerals than to weddings, for purely... | |
 | Charles Francis Whitley - Bibles - 1979 - 216 pages
...not see that the draught swallowed by all of us at birth is a draught of death"60. Koheleth's saying that "it is better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasting, for this is the end of all men" (7 2) similarly reminds us of Euripedes' view that "when a man is dead... | |
 | Margaret Irvin Carrington - History - 1983 - 296 pages
...October muster, looked forward to the holidays and December muster with glad anticipations, forhore all demonstrations usual to such a period, and sensibly...the sacred proverb, "That it is better to go to the EXPEDITIONS ABANDONED. 215 house of mourning than to the house of feasting." But no calm review, no... | |
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It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to the house of feasting ; for that is the end of all men, and the living will lay it to his heart. 
