...respect and homage to one another. He requires children to honor their parents, and the young " to rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man." Solomon requires his son "to fear the Lord and the king." Paul exhorts subjects "to render fear to...

...respect and homage to one another. He requires children to honor their parents, and the young " to rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man." Solomon requires his son " to fear the Lord and the king." Paul exhorts subjects "to render fear to...

...sympathies, labors, and prayers. Such neglect the genius of the gospel forbids. It is written, " Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and fear thy God." And situated as are the aged, in the providence of God, they are entitled to our liveliest...

...to show a marked respect to their senioi's. That precept of nature and the Scriptures, ' Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man,' is gone, there is cause to fear, or fast going, into disuse. The fact in regard to families, and in...

...thy God giveth thee. Lev. 19. 3. Ye shall fear every man his mother and his father. 32. Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the Lord. . Job 32. 7. Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom....

...humility ; for God resistelh the proud, and giveth grace to the humble." Lev. xix. 32, " Thou shall rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and fear thy God ; 1 am the Lord." As spiritual pride disposes persons to assume much to themselves, so it also...

...preserved, was no doubt part of that general dignity of age, which is to be reverenced. " Thou shall rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man." (Leviticus xix. 32.) The natural feeling of early periods seems to be in favor of it as an object of...

...respect to age. Young Greeks rose on the approach of the aged. The Levitical law required the young to rise up before the hoary head and honor the face of the old man. Respect and obedience go together. Cato, the wisest of his nation, wished Roman youth to turn red,...

...town, was equally improbable. In that day the law of Moses was in full force and virtue : 'Thou shall rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, I am the Lord.' An urgent and unanimous call from another respectable and highly intelligent people,...

...brethren ; elder women, as mothers. 1 Tim. v. 1, 2. Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear the Lord thy God. Lcvit. xix. 32. Q. How may we be assured that we ought to honour benefactors as parents ? A. By the...