...thou? 9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and Ithirty other's sister, nor of thy father's sis:er : for he...man shall lie with his uncle's wife, ic hath uncove 21 1! And the sons of Benjamin Tcer^Belah, and 10 And Jqcob blessed Pharaoh, and went out Keener, and...

...exquisitely simple and affecting, than the answer, which this inquiry drew, from the venerable patriarch : " The days of the years of my pilgrimage, are an hundred...life of my fathers, in the days of their pilgrimage." But I shall not stay, to enlarge upon the circumstances of this particular case. I shall, at once,...

...How old art thou V " And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, ' The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty years ; few and evil have the days...blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh."* Of the remaining books of Scripture (all of which are more or less conformed to these primitive models)...

...atone for this error of his judgment. It is impossible to read the affecting avowal to Pharaoh ; " Few and evil have the days of the years of my life...life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage,"* without feeling that the man who uttered it, in the sorrows of his soul, had received heavy retribution...

...Jacob ; and therefore when he was called in to stand before Pharoah, and was asked his age, he said, " Few and evil have the days of the years of my life...life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.' ' 1 have always considered myself only a pilgrim ; rough has been much of my road ; but it has conducted...

...Jacob, uHo\v old art thou? 9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage arc ll follow thee. And he said unto him, •' Go back again : for what have I done 21 to thee? And 10 in the days of their pilgrimage. And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh. 11...

...and our children's children, to the "third and fourth generation." " Joseph," says the historian, " brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh,...life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage." Such was the answer of the patriarch ! And is this the manner in which an aged man of God looks back...

...ART THOU ?" A NEW YEIR'S SERMON. Genesis xlvii. 8. And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou ? 9. And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years...life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage. " How old art thou ?"— A very natural and frequent question ; one, when properly asked, which we...

...own life and the lives of his progenitors, by the very name of a pilgrim's progress, when he said, " The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred...life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage." (Gen. xlvii. 9.) Such were the simple facts ; but even in the times of the patriarchs, this wandering...

...dust, and lifteth the poor out of the mire, that he may set him with the princes. Ps. cxiii. 6. 7. 24. And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, the days of the years...years of my life been, and have not attained unto the years of the life of my fathers. Gen. xlvii. 9.- I am a stranger upon earth. Ps. cxix. 19. 25. Conversion...