...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 a dream...

...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...

...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...

...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 thought,...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...