 | Mary Ann Pellew Smith - 1859 - 380 pagina’s
...among the tall* grass, leaving lengthy wakes of our progress behind us, "we are strong enough to say, ' The Lord gave, and the Lord taketh away; blessed be the name of the Lord,'" meekly crossing herself as she uttered these words, and bowing reverently. Here we were... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1859 - 482 pagina’s
...When you lost that child, you thought that you could not bear it so well as you did ; but you said : " The Lord gave and the Lord taketh away, blessed be the name of the Lord." Many of you have loved ones under the sod ; your mother, father, husband, or wife. You thought... | |
 | Mary Ann Pellew Smith - 1859 - 380 pagina’s
...among the tall* grass, leaving lengthy wakes of our progress behind us, "we are strong enough to say, ' The Lord gave, and the Lord taketh away ; blessed be the name of the Lord,' '' meekly crossing herself as she uttered these words, and bowing reverently. Here we were... | |
 | Joseph Esmond Riddle - 1860 - 160 pagina’s
...our affection or desire. It is an effect not of nature, but of grace, to be able cheerfully to say, "The Lord gave, and the Lord taketh away; blessed be the name of the Lord." Just and right it is indeed to love and praise the giver in and for His gifts; but blessed... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1860 - 348 pagina’s
...Valle, this is the name of which the Latins have made Zenobia. He gave, he takes away! — 4, p. 11. " The Lord gave, and the Lord taketh away: blessed be the name of the Lord." — Job, i. 21. I have placed a Scripture phrase in the mouth of a Mahommedan; but it is... | |
 | Annie Rodd - 1912 - 202 pagina’s
...seem to be recovering. I said to myself, 'I know it is well with the child. She is happy in heaven. The Lord gave, and the Lord taketh away, blessed be the name of the Lord'. " We look at little Mary, lying cold and still in her coffin and leave the cottage, feeling... | |
 | Isabel Chapin Barrows - 1913 - 370 pagina’s
...by the calamities which had shattered their fortunes, saying in the spirit, if not in the words, of Job : 'The Lord gave, and the Lord taketh away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.' He saw them, too, when the wasting hand of sickness had ' touched their bone and their flesh,'... | |
 | Logan Marshall - 1913 - 372 pagina’s
...comrades beset by hardship, and Petty Officer Edgar Evans, who died at the foot of the Beardmore glacier. "The Lord gave and the Lord taketh away. Blessed be the name of the Lord." Atkinson and his party then continued southward in search of the body of Captain Oates,... | |
 | Robert Falcon Scott - 1913 - 644 pagina’s
...south of this position; also of Seaman Edgar Evans, who died at the foot of the Beardmore Glacier. "The Lord gave and the Lord taketh away; blessed be the name of the Lord." ' This was signed by all the members of the party. I decided then to march twenty miles... | |
 | 1913 - 458 pagina’s
...thankful for the many blessings it has yet pleased the wise Disposer of all events to continue to me. The Lord gave and the Lord taketh away. Blessed be the name of the Lord. Amen. Grosvenor Square, Saturday, April the the day on which the remains of my dear child... | |
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The Lord gave and the Lord taketh away; blessed be the name of the Lord. 
