 | 1840
...or tempted, and you shall be blessed in your deed. " A word spoken in due season, how good is it ! A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver," Prov. xxv. 11. So much for the tongue-guard : I hope it will ever be properly appreciated and used; and I trust that... | |
 | Thomas Williams - Funeral sermons - 1840 - 80 pages
...divine proverb, "The tongue of the wise is health." Again, " A wholesome tongue is a tree of life." And again, "A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver." What, then, would be the effect of human speech, when used as it ought to be, in teaching... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication - 1840
...and delivered with sympathy and feeling. "A word spoken in season," says Solomon, "how good is it!" And again, " A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver." This property our Lord's instructions possessed in the highest degree. " The Lord God," says... | |
 | Ebenezer BURGESS, First Church (Dedham, Mass.) - Bible - 1840 - 517 pages
...little upon this. "A word fitly spoken," in public preaching, as well as in private conversation, " is like apples of gold, in pictures of silver." Prov. xxv. 11. In order to determine the seasonableness of particular subjects, he must consider the present circumstances... | |
 | George Mogridge - Trees - 1840
...beautiful to the sight, and the fruit grateful to the smell. It is said, in the Proverbs of Solomon, " A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver." The first fruits were carried, by God's chosen people, the Jews, to the temple in silver baskets... | |
 | 1840
...opportunities, when they are forced upon them, who can tell the good which might result? The wise man saith, " A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver." HB ON LAICAL INTERFERENCE IN RELIGIOUS MATTERS. SIR — The discussions which have recently... | |
 | John Gibson MacVicar - 1840 - 80 pages
...of truth, falls dead from the press when it does not speak to the times in which it appears. But " a word fitly spoken, is like apples of gold in pictures of silver."* And let the course of Providence, or the more immediate influences of the Spirit, bring any... | |
 | Thomas Williams - Funeral sermons - 1841 - 56 pages
...divine proverb, " The tongue of the wise is health." Again, " A wholesome tongue is a tree of life." And again, "A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold, in pictures of silver." What, then, would be the effect of human speech, when used as it ought to be, in teaching... | |
 | 1852
...interesting account of his conversion must not be allowed to pass without remark. We read, Prov. xxv. 11. "A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver." And what a beautifully instructive illustration we have of it in the word spoken to our brother... | |
 | Army - 1841 - 80 pages
...bring in company with him as many friends as he could. " A word spoken in due season, how good is it ! A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting." Visiting... | |
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A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. 
