...smile was their chief earthly joy, may often picture itself in their imagination. They may be like " Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted because they are not." Or, with another, they may say, "Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance...

...first-born and beloved children. — " There was a voice of woe, and lamentation, and great mourning; Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be Comforted, because they were not." The miserable uncertainty that involved the fate of the lost ones was an aggravation to...

...direct us to this time of Ephraim's sorrow, when the prophet, immediately before, names the sorrow of Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted because they were not. Quite a different illustration is supplied in the case of Ahithophel, and I borrow it in...

...despair ; the aged parent, the widowed mother, loses, when she is deprived of her children, everything but the capacity of suffering; her heart, withered...admits no other object, cherishes no other hope. It is Kachel, weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are not. 5. 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...and """desolate, admits no other object, cherishes I ro other hope. It is Rachel, weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they...

...alien land. " In Rama was a voice heard, lamentation and weeping and great mourning : Rachel mourning for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are not." Even so it is with England now ; the war that has dimmed many an eye and broken many a heart, rages...

...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;...It is Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing tobe comforted, because they are not. But, to confine our attention to the number of the slain would...

...virtually true in their experience — " a voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping ; Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they were not;" — because most, if not all of them, were taken, and few, or none, left. Frequently, too,...

...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,...

...family desolate ; a husband, a wife, or a parent, bewailing the loss of all that was most dear ; ' Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted because they are not ; ' can such objects as these, — so painful, so distressing, — be fit objects for our contemplation...