...unpromising for n oral culture. The songs of praise are changed to sighing. He groans in spirit " O that it were with me as in months past, when the candle of the Lord shone about me. In this moral winter the man suffers his attention and affections to be too mueh engrossed...

...of the Spirit, with which they once were favoured. This great loss often causes them to cry out, " O that it were with me as in months past, when the candle of the Lord shone upon my tabernacle." The promises of growth in grace, and of perseverance to the end are precious,...

...that testimony ? No ; but with the experiences of Job, who, in the day of his affliction, said, ' O that it were with me as in ' months past, when the candle of the Lord • shined upon my head !' Is the cause of Job's complaint a secret? But whatever he feared, doubted,...

...present themselves to your affrighted vision. At other times, a, little relenting, you exclaim, " O that it were with me as in months past, when the candle of the Lord shined upon my tabernacle. What would I give to recall the views and feelings of those days. Happy...

...your heart sink in the day of adversity ; and be in bondage through fear of death — and groan, " O that it were with me as in months past, when the candle of the Lord shined upon my head ; and when by his light I walked through darkness, and while as yet the Almighty...

...peculiar access to God, as the happiest periods of our life ; and in the absence of God shall say, " O that it were with me as in months past, when the candle of the Lord shone upon my head ! " We shall deprecate the hidings of his face as the severest affliction that we...

...present themselves to your affrighted vision. At other times, a little relenting, you exclaim, " O that it were with me as in months past, when the candle of the Lord shined upon my tabernacle. What would I give to recall the views and feelings of those days. Happy...

...dispensation to be solved in agreement with the love of God ? " Wherefore dost thou contend with me ? О that it were with me as in months past, when the candle of the Lord shone on me." In resisting these " vexing thoughts,'' the considerations, accessible to the minds of...

...present themselves to your affrighted vision. At other times,' a little relenting, you exclaim, "O that it were with me as in months past, when the candle of the Lord shined upon my tabernacle. What would I give to recall the views and feelings of those days. Happy...

...instead thereof, thou couldst only mourn and groan before thy God, with a lisping scarce articulated, " Oh ! that it were with me as in months past, when the candle of the Lord shone round about me." Had one taste of the sincere milk of the word reached thy fainting spirit, or...