...mightier power of Him who has said 10 the turbulent intellect of man, as well as to the stormy ocean, " Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther, — and here shall thy proud waves be staid." We cannot wish better to any such agitated mind than that it may listen to those potent and...

...band for it, And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, And said, Hitherto shall thou come, but no farther : and here shall thy proud waves be stayed ? Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose th«j bands of Orion ? Canst thou...

...one's case, they would be yet sorer. But he says to the sinful instrument, as he said to the sea, " Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther ; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." He lays a restraining hand on him, thai he cannot go one step farther, in the way his impetuous...

...with the sunbeam's brightness. It rules in " the raging of the sea where it set its bars, and said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." It reigns over all the domains of nature, the accidents of life, and the consciences of men,...

...such a force, and that must be as firmly fastened as the ledges on which the waves spend their fury. ' Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther : and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.' '" Reader, have you ever stood upon the ocean shore, and looked out freely upon that broad...

...such a force, and that must be as firmly fastened as the ledges on which the waves spend their fury. ' Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther : and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.' " Reader, have you ever stood upon the ocean shore, and looked out freely upon that broad...

...ordinary degree of interest, a rock which has braved for centuries the ocean's rage, practically saying, ' people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trump stayed.' With still greater interest, though of a somewhat different kind, should we contemplate a...

...darkness a swaddling band for it, and brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors; and said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther : and here shall thy proud waves be stayed ;'' chap, xxxviii. 8. Here then is Job's allusion : the bounds, doors, garment, swaddling bands,...

...which in silent and solid grandeur very imperatively says to the ever-restless invader at its base, "Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." The green foliage here has a peculiar brightness. It may be that a week's confinement upon...

...darkness a swaddling band for it, and brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, and said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther ; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." The inanimate and irrationaí parts of creation,'properly speaking, cannot receive and execute...