By the God of thy Father who shall help thee, and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts and of the womb. |
First, learn from hence to meditate upon your own Mortality, and be now assured, by this neer and home example, that your self shall die. |
Great was the name of Abraham, but all his Sons were not accepted; only Isaac was in the Covenant. |
If I had to pick two, it would probably be them. |
In this the similitude is so great, that there is no difference in the nature of the love produced, and that which did produce it. |
It was very difficult at times. The workers were forced to pull back from some roads as high winds were causing trees and branches to fall. |
It's a natural fit for us. I'm glad we finally have Nashua-Plainfield back down in (Class) 1A. North Iowa, Buffalo Center, was in our district last year, so we are used to playing them. |
Love is of that excellent nature, that it is esteemed by the best of men, and accepted from the meanest persons; what then is the affection of a Father! |
Mortality is a proper object to invite our pity, and privation of life alone sufficient to move compassion in the living. |
Mortality, and Paternity; the one supposed, the other expressed in the text: Jacob was the Father of Joseph, and that Father dead, and therefore Joseph mourned for him. |
Secondly, reflect upon that love and entire affection which you have lost; and could no otherwise be lost, but by losing him, in whom it lived. |
The occasion of this sadness is expressed in a word, but must be considered in many more, as being the principal concernment both of the Text and Time. |
Thirdly, Death is nothing else but a change of a short and temporary for an unalterable and eternal condition. |
This works best for people with incomes above $125,000, |
Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death. |