...may be victims of disease. Here is Rachel holding up their little robes which are to be used no more, "weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are not." The father looked for an engaging and entertaining companion ; but the cares and expenses of ten or...

...that he is obliged to depart, they mourn and weep. In their seasons of sorrow, Rachel is often seen weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are not; the bereaved and distressed beat upon their breasts, rend their garments, throw the dust into the air,...

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

...such cases, is aggravated by these imaginary terrors, till the bereaved parents appear like " Rachel, weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted because they are not!" Many, no doubt, take their infants to be baptized by the priest, or become sponsors on the occasion,...

...to regard with peculiar love ; look upon the fond mother, stupid and dumb with grief: like " Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted because they are not;" observe the settled melancholy under which thousands are oppressed, through a separation from the husband...

...now darkened hearths, the winds should carry up to heaven the cry that was heard in Ramah, ' Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted because they are not.' Tell me," said he, " how did all this happen ?" I now detailed to him the events of yesterday, with...

...deepening despair. Their sorrow is never completely healed : it lives on, and refuses to die : it is Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted because they are not. .... The sorrows of Bethlehem are intensified ten thousandfold in Bulgaria Oh let us reach out the...

...judgments upon the Jews, under the beautiful personification of Rachel rising from the dead looking in vain for her children, and refusing to be comforted because they are not, is adduced by Matthew as fulfilled in the sorrow which was produced by the massacre of the babes in...

...son, my son !" Has not a voice oft been heard, like that which was once heard in Ramah, — the voice of a mother " weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are not ?" And when the object so inordinately loved is not altogether taken away, it is sometimes withered...

...event, no design could so graphically set it forth as the pathetic image of the prophet : " Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are not." The fourth passage refers to our Lord's place of abode during his earlier years, " And he came and...