...as much as it would lose its saltness, at the wish of Mortality, instead of the fiat which said, ' Hitherto sha.lt thou come, but no farther; and here shall thy proud waves be staid.'" LETTER XXIX. A SHORT time after our last conversation, L and myself passed a person who had...

...the mind to the Author of all, even to him who gave the sea its decreed bounds, — " Hitherto shall thou come, but no farther," and here shall thy proud waves be stayed. In the solemn stillness of midnight, when the, moon and stars throw a faint light over the...

...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 ? Job xxxviii. 8 — 11. Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people,...

...nothing" — "who formed the mountains and created the winds" — " who shut up the sea, and said, hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther; and here shall thy proud waves be staid." And in the lively contemplation of the marvellous wisdom and onraipotcnce that overlooks and...

...quiet the mind under such a state of things. There is but One who can say to the tide of unbelief, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed ? The promise for the day was looked at, it ran thus — A remnant shall be saved. O what an...

...attempt to go beyond its prescribed limits ; he says to it, as to the waters of the ocean, Hitherto shall thou come, but no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed. We shall in our present meditation attempt to illustrate and confirm this truth, that the wrath...

...might rise up as a rampart, against which the fiery waves of internperance would dash in vain, saying, hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed. To all our schools instruction on this subject should be communicated, and the Sabbath schools...

...pure air from the sen, and contemplating that stupendous proof of His almighty power, who saith; " Hitherto shalt thou come but no farther : and here shall thy proud waves be stayed !"—My dear love to Mary. Tell her, I am sorry I put her to the expence of postage for such...

...ordinary degree of interest, a rock, which has braved for centuries the ocean's rage, practically saying, "hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." With still greater interest, though of a somewhat different kind, should we contemplate a...

...nothing," — " who formed the mountains and created the winds," — " who shut up the sea, and said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther ; and here shall thy proud waves be staid." And in the lively contemplation of the marvellous wisdom and omnipotence that overlooks and...