 | Richard Cunningham Shimeall - Heaven - 1870 - 482 pages
...Paradise" or " the third heaven" where now "rest" the "little ones" of a bereaved Rachel, " weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted because they are not ;" together with that army of the infant martyrs of Bethlehem slain by the bloody mandate of I ii.... | |
 | 1871 - 452 pages
...others He had prized the most ; and the voice which we hear sounds like that of Rachel in Ramah, weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted because they are not. It is not of slothful service, or waning zeal, or failing liberality, or slackening warfare, that He... | |
 | Ontario. Council of Public Instruction - English language - 1871 - 506 pages
...heart, withered and desolate, admits no other object, cherishes no other hope. It is Rachel wzeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are not. But to confine our attention to the number of the slain would give us a very inadequate idea of' the... | |
 | Theodore Parker - American literature - 1871 - 602 pages
...and when a people stood at the grave of their nation, no comfort sprung out of the ground ; it was Rachel mourning for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they were not. The old forms of heathen religion were no better, most of them far worse. True, immortality... | |
 | Horatius Bonar - Bible - 1872 - 450 pages
...others He prized the most; and the voice which we hear, sounds like that of Rachel in Ramah weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are not. It is not of slothful service, or waning zeal, or failing liberality, or slackening warfare, that He... | |
 | Helen Cross Knight - 1872 - 302 pages
..."In Blagdon is still a voice heard, lamentation and mourning; and at Cowslip Rachel is still weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted because they are not instructed. This heavy blow has almost bowed me to the ground. It was only last night I began to get... | |
 | Thomas S. Millington - Plagues of Egypt - 1873 - 320 pages
...with his own distress. And soon this cry for help was changed into a cry of mourning — Egypt weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are not. So the word of the Lord was fulfilled, " I will slay thy son, thy first-born : there shall be a cry... | |
 | Luke Woodard - Society of Friends - 1875 - 458 pages
...homes to-day is there a voice heard like that in I'umnh — "lamentation and weeping, Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted because they are not." What were these young men worth to our country; to their homes, to doting parents, to trusting wives,... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - Congregational churches - 1879 - 172 pages
...earth, and gain fresh strength from her mother, as Antaeus did. How often, when you find Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted because they are not, do you have to tell her that she must go out every day under the sunshine, or every night under the... | |
 | William Jay - 1879 - 642 pages
...found those who are in mourning ! If you could look into some of them, you might see Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are not. We should see children mourning over the loss of their parents, husbands their wives, and the wife... | |
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Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are not. 
