ECCLESIASTES

Is the Pa aes = tit! of a didactic poem traditi ly attribute to Solomon. The writer, who calls bin self ** the Preacher,” wae ees an age Hebrew thinker of the third centary B.t Heo reviews tho various activities of huma = and eces in thom mn | that ca | yield abiding satisfaction; ** All is vanity g; saith the Preacher.” This book has at al | times appealed to the a as a | bum an outcry for something than the fleeting things of time. With St, n | John, the writer could emphatically a 2 | * The world Meyer away and the lus s | thereof,” and he would fain have been able, | tosay with the pore but he that doeth f ys of God abideth for ever.” 1 John Bit.. e| [s. 129]