...might have been applied — " There was a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning ; Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they were not." Through Monday night and Tuesday, this dreadful suspense continued ; and eagerly was the post of Wednesday...

...to hopeless bondage. Does not Christendom owe a mighty debt to that despoiled, bereaved land ? Like Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are not ; does not Africa's voice of lamentation cry to Heaven out parallel, and in some respects irretrievable...

...suffering ; her heart, withered and desolate, admits no other object, cherishes no other hope. It is Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are not. liable. We cannot see an individual expire, though a stranger or an enemy, without being sensibly...

...the useless, and the helpless tarrying, while the young and the healthy are swept away. How many a Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are not! And thus, instead of the darling group who fondly clung together, and exulted in each other's...

...to have slain the holy child Jesus. In reference to both periods all hearts have sympathized with " Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted because they are not." During the utmost heat of this fiery persecution there lived, among the Israelites a man...

...infant offspring ! " In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning; Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they were not." But, while this mother in Nain had the feelings common to human nature, and the feelings which belonged...

...sometimes through their own negligence, and sometimes through the enemy's subtilty, weeping like Rachel for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they were not, are fresh in my remembrance. But of later times many come amongst us, that in outward appearance may...

...mental sufferings, through the intemperance of their sons ; and others led to the graves' brink like Rachel, "weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are not." And many fair, lovely, and interesting daughters of Britain, have, through strong drink,...

...Saith Jehovah. 15 Thus saith Jehovah, A sound was heard in Eamah, Lamentation, and most bitter crying, Rachel weeping for her children, And refusing to be comforted, Because they were not. 16 Thus saith Jehovah, Restrain thy voice from weeping, And thine eyes from tears ; For there is a...

...Rama, of lamentation and weeping and great mourning ; nor saw, among all the mothers of Syria, any Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they were not. But, sir, just in proportion as the light of civilization and Christianity dawns upon the world, will...