...successive strokes brought to a state of widowhood and desolation. Behold the disconsolate widow, " weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are not;" and because the husband, who was her stay and • During the French Revolution. her support, is either...

...with the bitterness of despair ; the aged parent, the widowed mother, loses, when she is deprived of her children, every thing but the capacity of suffering...and refusing to be comforted, because they are not. * In the former editions thin sentiment was Imputed to Homer : the truth, howerer, to, as Mr. Hall...

...with the bitterness of despair; the aged parent, the widowed mother, loses, when she is deprived of her children, every thing but the capacity of suffering;...admits no other object, cherishes no other hope. It is Rachael weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are not. But, to confine...

...with the bitterness of despair; the aged parent, the widowed mother, loses, when she is deprived of her children, every thing but the capacity of suffering;...desolate, admits no other object, cherishes no other hope. /' w Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they arc not. • In i...

...with the bitterness of despair : tbe aged parent, the widowed mother, loses, when she is deprived of her children, every thing but the capacity of suffering;...admits no other object, cherishes no other hope.— ROBEIIT HALL. NOTHING MADE IN VAIN. THE Creator has made nothing that is unuseful — nothing so insulated...

...said, " Blessed is the womb that bare not, and the paps that never gave suck.:> Many a " Rachel is weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are not." Many an early grave is inscribed with. " Childhood and youth are vanity." But the pleasureof the Lord...

...enjoying the presence of the Spirit. Some are sorrowing for the loss of a dear relation, perhaps like Rachel, weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are not. And others know the sad trial of ungodly wicked husbands, and dissipated, disobedient children, throwing...

...tabernacle is dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands eternal in the heavens. Is Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted because they are not? Cease thy lamentations. Jesus is risen again. If thy fondest delights and dearest hopes in the fair...

...broken up, and the teachers deprived of their youthful charge; then we shall behold the church, like Rachel, ''weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are not." Secondly. It is her duty to watch over them carefully. They ought not to be left to the care of 498...

...e'e, and I saw that raw o' bairns' heads round the feet o' the woman, I conceited that it might be Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted because they were not — but I'm sair misdoubting, collector, I 'm sair misdoubting, it's a far ither woman, the...