...If this child had ground to believe that his father would do as he had said, how much more have IP The children of this world, are wiser than the children, of light. The child's mind was full of the subject, so that every thing else was lost sight of, when he eameto plead...

...to which woman bore him. Had the Great Founder of Christianity only uttered this one sentence — " The children of this world are wiser than the children of light," every receding age would have added its attestation to his infinite knowledge of man ; and every age...

...added, ' I remember what you once said to me, ' What thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might ; but the children of this world are wiser than the children of light ; and I fear this is sadly neglected ; ' — with additional kind advice. To my mind it was a word...

...steward was wise, for a knave is a round-about fool that overreaches himself. Nor does it appear that the children of this world are wiser than the children of light. The contrary fact is frequently declared in Scripture. Worldlings are, however, more crafty and cunning...

...is instructively shewing us how we may do better for the time to come. We have seen in what respects the children of this world are wiser than the children of light. But surely, this ought not to be. Consider the difference of the objects, which worldly and religious...

...and worldly turn out right, and you, with your kind heart and generous feelings, are in the wrong. " The children of this world are wiser than the children of light," saith the old Scripture; and worldly people do sometimes escape losses, and kind generous hearts get...

...teaching us to violate the fundamental laws of God's kingdom. The declaration of the Saviour, that the children of this world are wiser than the children of light, is most forcibly illustrated by the conduct of the steward as described. Upon the first intimation...

...teaching us to violate the fundamental laws of God's kingdom. The declaration of the Saviour, that the children of this world are wiser than the children of light, is most forcibly illustrated by the conduct of the steward as described. Upon the first intimation...

...Church, it is manifest, does not yet fully realize her obligations to those who have spent tbeir strength in her service. Their claims for an adequate support...justice. They have a right to such support. In this the childrea of this world are wiser than the children of light. The State provides a pension for her disabled...

...has provided are the powerful ones. The world can beat us with their own weapons. In their generation the " children of this world are wiser than the children of light." The philosophy and wisdom of men will overmatch us if we go to them with armor, coat of mail, and helmet...