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The children's great texts of the Bible by James Hastings

Ecclesiastes 7

Ecclesiastes 7:8

THE END THAT COUNTS Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof. Ecclesiastes 7:8. I once lived in the same house with a little girl who was very clever with her hands. She could sew, she could knit, she could crochet, and she was always busy with some piece of work. She seemed to be... [ Continue Reading ]

Ecclesiastes 7:27

COUNT ING ONE BY ΟNE Counting one by one. Ecclesiastes 7:27 (AV). That is one of the first things we learn to do, isn't it? While we are little more than babies, before we know our alphabet or can read tiny words, we begin to count one by one. “One, two, three, four, five,” we say, and feel very... [ Continue Reading ]

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