...that I feel myself impelled to exclaim with additional energy to youth of every description- — " Rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old. Court the society of old and experienced people ! — Do not despise the counsel of cool reason, nor...

...that I feel myself impelled to exclaim, with additional energy, to youth of every description — 8 " Rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old. Court the society of old and experienced people! Dp not despise the counsel of cool reason, nor the...

...respect, on account of their age. This respect, God has expressly required to be paid to the aged. "Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and fear thy God." God has likewise manifested his awful displeasure against those, who treated the aged and pious prophet'with...

...people in general were often treated with great disrespect, in direct violation of the divine command, ' thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man.' Some have complained of the disposition of those who adopted the new rneasuree, to crowd them into...

...all eternity. CHAPTER XVI. THE CHRISTIAN'S CONDUCT TO OLD AGE. IT is the Lord's express command, " Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and fear thy God." The experience and gravity, the judgment and wisdom, frequently found in old age, demand veneration...

...their age and experience. Have you any Scriptures to direct you 1 Yes, — Lev. xix. 32, " Thou shall rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man." 1 Peter v. 5, " Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder ; yea, all of you be subject...

...that I feel myself impelled to exclaim, with additional energy, to youth of every description — 8 " Rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old. Court the society of old and experienced people! Do not despise the counsel of cool reason, nor the...

..." The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother thou shalt not uncover." " Thou shall rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and fear thy God, I am the Lord." I desire that tfew spirit of these precepts may govern all my remarks. I wish only,...

...Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old." " Thou sbalt rise up before the hoary head and honor the face of the old man." God also links respect for age with his own fear, for he adds immediately to the words last quoted,...

...be clothed with humility ; for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble." Lev. xix. 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." As spiritual pride disposes persons to assume much to themselves, so it also disposes...