...and idea were bounded to their circumstances ; and she herself knew by experience, that " better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure and trouble therewith." The newly married pair went quietly home to their pretty rectory, situated in one of the finest districts...

...bring you more comfort, than if all their store were cast into one heap, and bestowed upon you. So, " Better is a little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith" (Prov. xv. 16). These are principles that are only relished by men of a mortified arid contented mind....

...Prov. x. 22. The blessings of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it. Prov. xv. 16. Better is a little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure and trouble therewith. Eccl. ii. 26. God doth give to a man that is good in his sight, wisdom, and knowledge, ami joy: but...

...upon that which is not ? For riches certainly make themselves wings : they fly away. Prov. xxiii. 4. Better is a little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure and trouble therewith. Prov. xv. 16. CONCLUSION. IN bringing this memoir to a conclusion, it would be very appropriate to...

...leaf, forms the basis or but-end of the present publication. hoarded heaps, know not that " Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith," — or wasting themselves and substance in riot and intemperance, forget how far sweeter is " a dinner...

...himself rich, and yet hath nothing ; there is that maketh himself poor, and yet hath great riches. Better is a little with the fear of the Lord than great treasures and trouble therewith. An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning, but the end...

...three meet again?' Little did I anticipate such a change in my prospects ; but God's will be done. Better is a little with the fear of the Lord, than great riches without right. Perhaps I estimated money as a means of usefulness, above its real importance,...

...food and raiment, let us be therewith content. (Read on to verse 20.) Prov. xv. 16, 17.—Better is little, with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith. Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, than a stalled ox, and hatred therewith. Heb. xiii. 5.—Let...

...Edmund was taught to believe that " Godliness with contentment is great gain;" and that "Better is little with the fear of the Lord than great treasure and . trouble therewith," 1 Tim. vi. 6 ; Prov. xv. 16. Many pitied him when his worldly friends fell away, and said, " This is...

...to repair it. Neither let the pretence of impoverishing our heirs obstruct these pious purposes, for better is a little with the fear of the Lord, than great revenues without right, Prov. xvi. 8. The curse which follows what is ill-gotten will eat out all the...