...company. This is not merely an evidence of good-breeding, but of obedience to the divine command, to "rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man." ' Strangers, or any person who may appear to be overlooked or neglected, I am sure you will delight...

...1 Pet iii. 1, 7. • Eph. v. 22, 25 ; vi. 1, 4, 6, 9. CoL ill 18-^22 ; IT. 1. 4 t !.. I. -:,.,.•. up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and fear thy God : I am the Lord." ' We consider ourselves, then, as not only warranted, but shut up,...

...suspended thus, in deference to old age, shows how sensitive a regard was paid to the Mosaic precept, " Thou shall rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man." As to the theological character of this association, there has been a prevailing sound, orthodox sentiment,...

...power beneath a soft and subdued womanliness made her so much the more engaging. She was careful to rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, to pay to every one the respect due his age, character, or station. At the same time, she made the...

...righteousness," Prov. xvi. 31. God has put honour upon old age by commanding the youth, " Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and fear thy God," Lev. xix. 32. 4. To the aged especially is awarded the privilege of usefulness....

...land which the Lord their God had given them. The Israelite was commanded without qualification to rise up before the hoary head and honor the face of the old man, and the youthful Elihu did not think it decorous to interrupt Job and his three friends, though their...

...shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind. — Levit. xix. 14. TKbu shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man. — Levit. xix. 32. And yet it is no where enjoined in the Scripture that any formal reverence, honor,...

...the Scriptures have enjoined on the young special and profound respect towards the aged. "Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and fear thy God, — I am the Lord." In this, as in all the other enactments of the divine word, we...

...power beneath a soft and subdued womanliness made her so much the more engaging. She was careful to rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, to pay to every one the respect due his age, character, or station. At the same time, she made the...

...comprehensive import, is beautifully expressed by that requisition of the Levitical law, " Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man." These tokens of outward respect, this docility, obedience, and kindness even to old age, constitute...