 | Practical sermons - 1845 - 396 sivua
...assume the tone of despair; if there should be " lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are not," this is not the allowed sensibility of nature, but an outrageous defiance of Providence. It is saying... | |
 | William Cooke, Joseph Barker - 1845 - 512 sivua
...event, no design could so graphically set it fortli as the pathetic image ot'the prophet : — "Rachael weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are not." The 19th verse : — " But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth in a dream to... | |
 | 1845 - 620 sivua
...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. But, to confine our attention to the number of the slain would give us a very inadequate idea of the... | |
 | Elizabeth Margaret Chandler - 1845 - 320 sivua
...ruins of her former grandeur; but what is her fate to that of Africa? hapless, unpitied Africa ! " weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are not" — because they have been torn from her with ruthless violence, that they might be immolated on the... | |
 | Robert Hall - 1846 - 596 sivua
...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. But to confine our attention to the number of the slain would give us a very inadequate idea of the... | |
 | 1847 - 428 sivua
...hopeless bondage. Does not Christendom owe a mighty debt to that despoiled, bereaved land ? Like Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are not ; does not Africa's voice of lamentation cry to Heaven out parallel, and in some respects irretrievable... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 sivua
...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. liable. We cannot see an individual expire, though a stranger or an enemy, without being sensibly moved,... | |
 | 1848 - 588 sivua
...useless, and the helpless tarrying, while the young and the healthy are swept away. How many a Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are not! And thus, instead of the darling group who fondly clung together, and exulted in each other's love,... | |
 | Horatio Hastings Weld - 1848 - 290 sivua
...slain the holy child Jesus. In reference to both periods all hearts have sympathized with " Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted because they are not." During the utmost heat of this fiery persecution there lived, among the Israelites a man of the tribe... | |
 | J. Russom - 1850 - 156 sivua
...sufferings, through the intemperance of their sons ; and others led to the graves' brink like Rachel, "weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are not." And many fair, lovely, and interesting daughters of Britain, have, through strong drink, been driven... | |
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Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are not. 
