ing, said unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things which are come to pass there in these days?

RIGHT AND WRong Way.

Gen. xxxvii, 15-17. And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou? And he said, I seek my brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where they feed their flocks. And the man said, They are departed hence; for I heard them say, Let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went after his brethren,

and found them in Dothan.

Ps. cv, 13-15. When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people, He suffered no man to do them wrong, yea, he reproved kings for their sakes; Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.

Isa. xxiil, 12. And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; there

also shalt thou have no rest.

Jonah 1, 10. Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said unto him, Why hast thou done this? (for the men knew that he fled from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them)

Micah ii, 10. Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.

DIVINE CARE OVER STRANGERS

AND TRAVELLERS.

Deut. xxviii, 1-3, 15, 16. And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth. And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God. Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field. But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day, that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee. Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.

Deut. xxxiii, 18. And of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in thy going out; and, Issachar, in thy tents.

1 Kings viii, 41-43. Moreover, concerning a stranger, that is not

THE RETURN.

1 Chron. xvi, 20--22. And when they went from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people, He suffered no man to do them wrong, yea, he reproved kings for their sakes, Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.

2 Chron. vi, 32, 33. Moreover, concerning the stranger, which is not of thy people Israel, but is come from a far country for thy great name's sake, and thy mighty hand, and thy stretched-out arm; if they come and pray in this

house: Then hear thou from the

heavens, even from thy dwellingplace, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for, that all people of the earth may know thy name, and fear thee, as doth thy people Israel; and may know that this house, which I have built, is called by thy name.

Ezra vii, 8, 9. And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month. which was in the seventh year of the king. For upon the first day of the first month began he to go up from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him.

Ezra viii, 31, 32. Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go unto Jerusalem; and the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by the way. And we came to Jerusalem, and abode there three days.

P3. cvii, 3-7. And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south. They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in. Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them. Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses. And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.

Isa. Ivi, 3. Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, say

Gen. xiii, 3. And he went on his journeys from the south even to Beth-el, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Beth-el and Hai.

Gen. xxiv, 54, 56. And they did eat and drink, he and the men that were with him, and tarried all night: and they rose up in the morning, and he said, Send me away unto my master. And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing the LORD hath prospered my way; send me away, that I may go to my master.

Gen. xxxi, 17, 18. Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels. And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods, which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padanaram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.

Gen. xxxiii, 16. So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir.

Gen. xlii, 29. And they came unto Jacob their father unto the

laud of Canaan, and told him all that befell unto them; saying.

Gen. xiv, 25. And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob their father.

Exod. iv, 19. And the LORD said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt: for all the men are dead which sought thy life.

Num. xxiv, 25. And Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place; and Balak also went his

way.

Ruth 1, 10, 19, 22. And they said unto her, Surely we will return with thee unto thy people. So they two went until they came to Beth-lehem. And it came to pass, when they were come to Bethlehem, that all the city was moved about them; and they said, Is this Naomi? So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughterin-law, with her, which returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Beth-lehem in the beginning of barley-harvest.

1 Sam. xv, 34. Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul.

1 Sam. xxv, 12. So David's young men turned their way, and went again, and came and told him all those sayings.

1 Kings xiii, 10. So he went another way, and returned not by the way that he came to Bethel.

TIMES OF REJOICING. Judges xi. 34. And Jephthah came to Mizpah unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances; and she was his only child: beside her he had neither son nor daughter.

1 Sam. xviii, 6. And it came to pass, as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of musick.

1 Sam. xxi, 10-12. And David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath. And the servants of Achish said unto him, Is not this David the king of the land? did they not sing one to another of him in dances, saying, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands? And David lald up these words in his heart, and was sore afraid of Achish the king of Gath.

1 Sam. xxx, 16. And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad upon all the earth, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.

2 Sam. vi, 14. And David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.

1 Chron. xv, 29. And it came to pass, as the ark of the covenant of the LORD came to the city of

David, that Michal, the daugliter of Saul, looking out at a window, saw king David dancing and playing, and she despised him in her heart.

praises unto him with the timbrel and harp.

unto your fathers to give unto them, and to their seed, a land that floweth with milk and honey. That your days may be multiplied and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD swaro unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.

Jer. xxxi, 4, 13. Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry. Then shall the virgin rejoice in old together, for I will turn their thy grave in a full age, like as a the dance, both young men and Job v, 26. Thou shalt come to mourning into joy, and will com-shock of corn cometh in in his fort them, and make them rejoice season. from their sorrow.

is ceased; our dance is turned into Lam. v, 15. The joy of our heart mourning.

Mark vi, 22. And when the daughter of the said Herodias came in, and danced, and pleased Herod, and them that sat with him, the king said unto the damsel, Ask of me whatsoever thou wilt, and I will give it thee.

Ps. xxl, 4. He asked life of thee, length of days for ever and ever. and thou gavest it him, even

Ps. xxxiv, 12, 13. What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good? Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

I satisfy him, and shew him my Ps. xci, 16. With long life will

salvation.

Prov. ill, 1, 2. My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments; For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.

LORD prolongeth days: but the Prov. x, 27. The fear of the cor-years of the wicked shall be shor

THE GRECIAN GAMES. 1 Cor. ix, 24-27. Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a ruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection; lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

2 Tim, ii, 5. And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.

Heb. xil, 1. Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.

their children dance.

Ps. cxlix, 3. Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing

day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go to possess it; And that ye may prolong your days in the land which the LORD sware

tened.

Isa. lxv, 20, 22. There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner, being an hundred years old, shall be accursed. They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

Zech. viii, 4. Thus saith the LORD of hosts, There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for very age.

INSTANCES BEFORE THE FLOOD.

Gen. v, 5, 8, 11, 14, 17, 20, 23, 27, 31. And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died. And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died. And all the days of Enos

were nine hundred and five years: and he died. And all the days of Canaan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died. And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died. And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he

died. And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died. And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died.

Gen. ix, 29. And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and afty years: and he died.

INSTANCES AMONG THE
PATRIARCHS.

Gen. xl, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25 32. And Shem lived, after he begat Arphaxad, five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. And Arphaxad lived, after he begat Salah, four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters. And Salah lived, after he begat Eber, four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters. And Eber lived, after he begat Peleg, four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters, And Peleg lived, after he begat Reu, two hundred and nine years,and begat sons and daughters. And Reu lived, after he begat Serug, two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters. And Serug lived, after hebegat Nahor,two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. And Nahor lived, after he begat Terah, an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters. And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terali died in Haran.

Gen. xxiii, 1. And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah.

Gen. xxv, 7, 8, 17. And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years. Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years: and was gathered to his people. And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, an hundred and thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people.

Gen. xxxv, 28, 29. And the days of Isaac were an hundred and four-core years. And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people. being

old and full of days; and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

Gen. xlvii, 7, 8, 28. And Joseph brought in Jacob his father and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou? And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob

was an hundred forty and seven years.

Job xlii, 16, 17. After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations. So Job died, being old and full of days.

THE AGED.

Lev. xix, 32. Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.

Deut. xxxii, 25. The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of grey hairs.

2 Chron. X, 8, 9. But he forsook the counsel which the old men gave him, and took counsel with the young men that were brought up with him, that stood before him.

And he said unto them, What advice give ye, that we may return answer to this people, which have spoken to me, saying, Ease somewhat the yoke that thy father did put upon us?

Ezra iii, 12, 13. But many of the priests and Levites, and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy: So that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people: for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar off.

Job xii, 12. With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.

Job xv, 7, 17, 18. Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills? I will show thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare; Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it.

Job xxxii, 4, 6,7. Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because they were elder than he. And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are very old; wherefore I was afraid, and durst not shew you mine opinion. said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.

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Isa. xlvii, 6. I was wroth with my people; I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst show them no mercy; upon the ancient thou hast very heavily laid thy yoke.

Joel 1, 2, 3. Hear this, ye old

SIGNS OF AGE.

7 Gen. xxvii, 1. And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that ho could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold, here am I.

Gen. xlviii, 10. Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see....

pass at that time, when Eli was 1 Sam. iii, 2. And it came to eyes began to wax dim, that he laid down in his place, and his could not see.

1 Sam. iv, 15. Now Ell was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were dim, that he could not see.

the king walketh before you; and 1 Sam. xil, 2. And now, behold, I am old an 1 grey-headed; and, behold, my sons are with you: and I have walked before you from my childhood unto this day.

2 Sam. xix, 33-35. And the king said unto Barzillai, Come thou over with me, and I will feed thee with me in Jerusalem. And Barlong have I to live, that I should zillai said unto the king, How go up with the king unto Jerusalem ? I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?

1 Kings i, 1, 2. Now king David and they covered was old, and stricken in years; him with clothes, but he gat no heat. Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin; and

let her stand before the king, and

let her cherish him, and let her lie in thy bosom, that my lord the king may get heat.

1 Kings xiv, 4.... But Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age.

Job xii, 20. He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and tak eth away the understanding of the aged.

SUICIDE-VIRTUAL.

Luke iv, 9. And he brought him

to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple, and said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down from hence.

Acts xvi, 27, 28. And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled, But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harin; for we are all here.

INSTANCES OF SUICIDE. Judges xvi, 29. 30. And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood, and on which it was borne up, of the one with his right hand, and

of the other with his left. And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein: so the dead which he slow at his death were more than they which he slew in his life.

1 Sam. xxxl, 4, 5. Then said Saul unto his armour-bearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through,

and abuse me. But his armour

bearer would not; for he was sore

afraid. Therefore Saul took a

sword, and fell upon it. And

when his armour-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise upon his sword, and died with him.

2 Sam. xvii, 23. And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.

1 Kings xvi, 18, 19. And it came to pass, when Zimri saw that the city was taken,that he went into the palaceof the king's house,and burnt the king's house over him with fire, and died, For his sins which he sinned in doing evil in the sight of the LORD, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he did, to make Israel to sin.

thou to that. And he cast down and departed, and went and hangthe pieces of silver in the temple, ed himself.

(BURIAL, see under DISEASE AND DEATH, Page 177.)

THE RESURRECTION OF
THE DEAD.

Job xix, 23-27. Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever! For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the

earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed

that I cried standing among them, dead I am called in question by Touching the resurrection of the you this day.

Acts xxvi, 6-8. And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers: Unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come: for which hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews. Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that

God should raise the dead?

Heb. xi, 19, 35. Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence

also he received him in a figure.

Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection.

1 Thess. iv, 15, 16. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the LORD himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first.

PROOFS.

Mark xil, 26, 27. And as tonch

Hos. xiii, 14. I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.

John v, 28, 29. Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice. And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of

damnation.

John vi, 39. And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.

Acts xxiv, 15, 21. And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust. Except it be for this one voice,

him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.

Luke xx, 37, 88. Now, that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the bush, when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.

Rom. vi, 5. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection.

1 Cor. xv, 13-23, 49, 50. But if

there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen. And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ; whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not. For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised; And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins. Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. If in