...what was said by Jeremiah the prophet : A cry was heard in Mamahft weeping, and great lamentation ; Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they were no more, \ * Hosea xi. 1. " But after the death of Herod, lo ! an angel of the LORD appeared in...

...with the bitterness of despair ; tho 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 u Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because tfay 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...withered and desolate, admits no other object, cherishes uo other hope. It is Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, btoauu *% are not....

...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...

...memory, 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."...

...sanguinary command does but help the accomplishment of the prediction, " In Rama was there a voice heard, Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted because they were not." But the watchful eye of Providence does not sleep. The murderous design is but in Herod's...

...spirit 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...

...who 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,...

...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,...