 | Thomas Williams - Funeral sermons - 1840 - 88 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 - 160 pages
...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... | |
 | First Church (Dedham, Mass.) - Congregational churches - 1840 - 548 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 - 136 pages
...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 - 538 pages
...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 - 396 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 - Bible - 1841 - 68 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 - 590 pages
...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 - 266 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... | |
 | Children's periodicals, American - 1841 - 450 pages
...conclude. " A word fitly spoken," and printing is giving utterance far more widely than by the lips, " is like apples of gold in pictures of silver," Prov. xxv, 11, or, as I am told the original means, like the fine golden fruit, citrons, in net-work of silver,—a... | |
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A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. 
