...duty. In nothing is the Scriptural declaration more likely to be fulfilled in its richest import " Cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days." Multitudes of illustrations might be introduced to confirm the views of this section. How natural is...

...germination and growth of seeds This phenomenon is alluded to in the following beautiful metaphor — " Cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days." In oriental countries, bread is synonymous with rice, which is cast upon the soil, saturated by the...

...the custom in India and China. This practice explains another very beautiful passage of Scripture, " Cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days," Ecclesiastes xi. 1. Bread here means rather seed-corn, or seed-rice ; and the meaning of the whole...

...father, I do, a great many things 1 — for to-day I asked my teacher about that beautiful text, ' Cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days ;' — and what, father, do you think?" " Why, child, it must mean that we ought to be charitable to...

...into the pond. This explains a passage in Ecclesiastes, more frequently quoted than understood — ' Cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days ;' which means that, in the ordinary providence of Ood, we shall enjoy the reward of a good work in...

...and as they had meted, so was it miraculously meted to them again. " A good turn is never lost ;" " Cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days;" "Good measure, pressed down, and running over," did GOD return into their bosoms. The money was counted...

...the passage — which, as has been mentioned, he had had inscribed on Mr. Anstruther's monument : ' Cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days' — with an earnest determination, more than ever to ' spend and be spent,' in the service of that...

...rendering himself so dependent ; but the old clergyman replied, " Elder Seward, does not the Bible say, ' cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days?'" Towards evening he reached the city ; and. the good people of the city, then, as now, ever ready to...

...whole Bible shows, then, that the best way to have plenty in this world is to give liberally. (1.) "Cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days." This refers to the sowing of rice. The rice in the East is always sown when the fields are flooded...

...with the old man's last observation. 'That I take, sir, to be the meaning of the Scripture proverb, " Cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days."1 ' True ; and I think I may apply that proverb with equal appropriateness to a lesson which...