...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. But, to confine our attention to the number of the slain would give us a very inadequate idea...

...hospitals, to devastated countries, to burning cities, to violated virtue, to murdered innocence ; " Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are not." When he contemplates, too, the elegant trophies of former victory, let the parent remind...

...Stotfield that day furnish, of the beauty and force of that Scripture passage, which represents Rachel as weeping for her children, and " refusing to be comforted because they were not." Night came ; but to the widowed, and fatherless, and brotherless villagers of Stotfield, it was a doleful...

...Stotfield that day furnish, of the beauty and force of that Scripture passage, which represents Rachel as weeping for her children, and "refusing to be comforted because they were not." Night came ; but to the widowed, and fatherless, and brotherless villagers of Stotfield, it was a doleful...

...from its once -bright, but now darkened hearths, the winds should carry up to heaven the cry that was heard in Ramah, ' Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted because they are not.' Tell me," said he, " how did all this happen ?" I now detailed to him the events of yesterday,...

...unlawful to regard with peculiar love ; look upon the fond mother, stupid and dumb with grief: like " Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted because they are not;" observe the settled melancholy under which thousands are oppressed, through a separation...

...deepening despair. Their sorrow is never completely healed : it lives on, and refuses to die : it is Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted because they are not. .... The sorrows of Bethlehem are intensified ten thousandfold in Bulgaria Oh let us reach...

...grief, in such cases, is aggravated by these imaginary terrors, till the bereaved parents appear like " Rachel, weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted because they are not!" Many, no doubt, take their infants to be baptized by the priest, or become sponsors on the...

...desolation. Over the entrance was inscribed, " I heard a voice from Ramah, lamentation, mourning, and woe, Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they were not." On the shaft of a column, which is finished in imitation of Absalom's pillar in the King's dale at...

...Jewish church and state by the Romens; on which account, indeed, Rachel might be described in " bitter weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they were not." should arise of Judea, who should govern the world."* A tradition, or prophecy, delivered by a very...