...of the Tower" is well known to topographers and antiquaries, appropriately selected for his text, " Go to now, ye that say, to-day or to-morrow we will...continue there a year, and buy and sell and get gain." (James iv. 1 3.) He discoursed of the frailty of man's purpose, and the insecurity of his institutions,...

...circumstances and events ; and we arrogantly make our calculations, and pronounce our decisions. " To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city, and...continue there a year, and buy, and sell, and get gain," and form the connexions of life, and share richly all its enjoyments The disappointments incident to...

...resolution is marked with atheism, when, without reference to God, you say, " to day, or tomorrow, I will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain." You know not what will be on the morrow. What is your life ? It is a vapour. Every devout man will...

...4. There is one Lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy : who art thou that judgest another ? Go to now, ye that say ; To-day or to-morrow we will...on the morrow ; (For what is your life ? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.) For that ye ought to say : If...

...enterprises for worldly gain, as if you were sure that you would carry them all into execution ? " Go to now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow, we will...on the morrow ; for what is your life ? it is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. Ye ought to say, If the Lord will...

...emoluments; and without respect to the great will of God in his precepts or decrees, they could say, " to day or to-morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain :" not at all considering that their life itself was but as a vapour, and that the gold and the silver...

...and to destroy : 'who art thou that judgest another ? 13 Go to now, ye that say, "To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain : m 1 PET. i. 22 : Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto...

...purpose, then, to. which you design to apply it ? Is it your determination that to-day, or to-morrow, you will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy, and sell, and get gain?— That all the energies of mind and body shall be directed to the amassing of wealth?— to the adding...

...by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool. JAMES, iv. 14: Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. x HAB. ii. 9 : Woe to him that...

...expires, and your feet stumble upon the dark mountains of death. Your day of probation may be short. " For what is your life ? It is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time and then vanisheth away," " Each moment has its sickle, and cuts down The fairest bloom of sublunary bliss."...