 | James Hoby - Enslaved persons - 1839 - 102 pages
...character in the morning of life, for which the psalmist prays, when he says, " that our sons may he as plants grown up in their youth, that our daughters may be as corner-stones polished after the similitude of a palace." Such was the prayer of William's parents... | |
 | Susanna Corder - Quakers - 1839 - 400 pages
...not, the Son of Man cometh." " Oh," said he, " how has my soul longed and prayed for those present, that 'our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth : and that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace.' " He... | |
 | Methodist Protestant Church - 1839 - 196 pages
...means by which our children may, under God's blessing, be safely conducted to the knowledge of himself; that our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; and that our daughters may be as corner-stones, polished after the similitude of a palace. Already... | |
 | 1840 - 506 pages
...we ask that the smiles of Almighty God may rest upon the precious interests of education among us. That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth,...stones, polished after the similitude of a palace. * * * SCHOOL COMMITTEE.— GEO. TRASE, JW TALBOT, NELSON CARPENTER, LOREN . zo WARINER, DANIEL A. HATHAWAY.... | |
 | Melville Scott - Bible - 1927 - 254 pages
...D^o, ie "the men brought up," that is, the men of military age. For the word cf. Psalm cxliv. 12, " That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth." That the LXX read the word thus is evident from their translation, TOWS rpcfopevovs. Our own war memories... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education - Education - 1894 - 674 pages
...in a family of brothers and sisters under the guidance of a loving father and mother. "That oursons may be as plants grown up in their youth, that our daughters may bo as corner stones polished aller the similitude of a palace.'' The family is the unit of society.... | |
 | 1905 - 36 pages
...space I'll put into short propositions : (1) Every young person is an unchiseled gem or a plant. " That our sons may be as plants, grown up in their...stones, polished after the similitude of a palace." (2) Comparisons may be unfair. What is the difference in value between a fine pearl and an acorn? It... | |
 | Church missionary society - 690 pages
...placed in such unhappy circumstances. David, in the 144th Psalm, uses the following expression — "that our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth." Such will be the case with those who, in Christian families, are brought up in '.the nurture and admonition... | |
 | Zondervan - Bible - 1984 - 940 pages
...strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood: 12 blishing 13 That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands... | |
 | Margaret Ripley Wolfe - Social Science - 1995 - 314 pages
...In another time and place the biblical King David had offered up "a new song" of praise for his Lord "that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace" (Psalm 144). In a manner not unlike that of the ancient Hebrew psalmist, the contemporary southern... | |
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That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth: that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace... 
