...lives and rejoices in light, their hearts would not feel such crushing weights ; and instead of Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are not, we should have Job saying, " The Lord hath given and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name...

...horror of carnage,— no feast of vultures, and carnival of fiends, — no weeping of Rachel, mourning for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are not. There was required only a magnanimity in proceeding to sustain that of pur beginning, — only a sympathy...

...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,...

...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...

...suffering; her heart, withered and desolate, admits no other object, cherishes no other hope. It is Rachel, weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are not. 3. But, to confine our attention to the number of the slain would give us a very inadequate 5 idea...

...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...

...mildness maddened into a holy and fearful frenzy. In his Lamentations, his is that figure of Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are not. His the plaintive question, ' Is there no balm in Gilead?' And his the wide wish of sorrow, ' O that...

...suffering; her heart, withered and desolate, admits no other object, cherishes no other hope. It is Rachel, weeping for her children, and refusing to be' comforted, because they are not. 3. But, to confine our attention to the number of the slain would give us a very inadequate5 idea of...

...and bitter weeping, that it seemed as if Rachel, the wife of their common ancestor, were there, as a mother, weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted because they were not. This striking and beautiful figure the Evangelist has transferred to Bethlehem, to represent...

...hillside and valley, from every forest, prairie, and glen, rises the wail of bereavement, " Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted because they are not." And oh , what means this awful sacrifice ? Are our sins so great that every family must bring its offering...