...the urgency, the boldness, and the splendor of his prophecy. His is that melting figure of Rachel, weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are not. His is that appeal to Ephraim — " Is he my dear son ? is he a pleasant child ?" which sounds like...

...died for thee, 0 Absalom, my son, my son !" Here, a voice of maternal lamentation is heard, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are not. There, the children gather round a parent's death-bed, and gaze, and fear to gaze upon a father or...

...was their chief earthly joy, may often picture itself in their imagination. They may be like " Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted because they are not." Or, with another, they may say, "Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance...

...her heart, withered and """desolate, admits no other object, cherishes I ro other hope. It is Rachel, weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are not. 5. But, to confine our attention to the number of the slain, would give us a very inadequate idea of...

...alien land. " In Rama was a voice heard, lamentation and weeping and great mourning : Rachel mourning for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are not." Even so it is with England now ; the war that has dimmed many an eye and broken many a heart, rages...

...have stood by the open grave ! It is not that they would complain, but that they are bereaved. Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted because they are not. Every family has its vacant seats at the fireside ; every heart at times seeks for those who are living,...

...one voice is still heard pouring its lamentations on the heedless air; it is " the voice of Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted because they are not." No wonder then, that the blind mother pours forth her waitings, when the terrible conviction comes...

...Andromache. "A VOICE was heard on high," says Jeremias,1 "of lamentation, of mourning, and weeping, of Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted because they are not." How beautiful is this expression — because they are not! It breathes all the tenderness of the mother."...

...submissive to the arrangements of Providence. And if it cannot be said o'f them, that they are like Rachel, weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are not; it may be said, that they keep brooding over circumstances which prevent their attaining the comfort...

...have stood by the open grave ! It is not that they would complain, but that they are bereaved. Kachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted because they are not. Every family has its vacant seats at the fireside ; every heart at times seeks for those who are living,...