...restrain ing of prayer, which sooner or later, will pierce the soul through and through with sorrow. How is the gold become dim ! how is the most fine gold changed ! O thou worldly spirit, thou perverted reason, and Thou — Thou base unbelief, together ye have unnerved...

...salutary effects were then obvious to all men, for piety and devotion were attendant thereupon. But '•how is the gold become dim '. how is the most fine gold changed ! \r The plant which then promised a display of its foliage, was, first fostered, next neglected, then...

...rational being; and renders it capable of offering to its Maker reasonable obedience and honour. Yet, " how is the gold become dim ! how is the most fine gold changed !" Man possessing the faculty of understanding, does not understand the will of God. " The natural...

...contrasting the severe, unbending faith of the old Romans with the spiritual degeneracy of their children, " How is the gold become dim ! how is the most fine gold changed!" BIBLE-READING IN OLD ENGLAND. IT is scarcely needful to observe that the history of the Bible blends,...

...its original state, no doubt, was crowned with dignity and glory too. But alas! how is it now fallen! how is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed ! For, since the fall of man, there has been no true dignity in human nature, but as it was beheld...

...the sanctuary was reverenced, through this country, until about fifty years past. But since then, " how is the gold become dim ! how is the most fine gold changed !" The ways of Zion mourn ; the houses of God are forsaken ; and the sabbath despised, neglected, and...

...principles ever really had firm hold of his heart, we could not but say, Quantum mutatus ab illo! " How is the gold become dim ! How is the most fine gold changed !" The reader, it is presumed, will have now fully discerned the fallacy of the principle upon which...

...principles ever really had firm hold of his heart, we could not but say, Quantum mutatus ab itto! " How is the gold become dim ! How is the most fine gold changed !" The reader, it is presumed, will have now fully discerned the fallacy of the principle upon which...

...find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is as snares and nets ; and her hands as bands." "How is the gold become dim, how is the most fine gold changed?" What a contrast to the former state of mind, when the richness and purity of bloom was upon the conscience...

...— How delightful were their foretastes of heaven. But now — how distressing is the contrast — " How is the gold become dim; how is the most fine gold changed." How poor, how tasteless, how miserable, in comparison, are the best comforts which. this world can...