...with the bitterness of despair ; the aged parent, the widowed mother, loses, when she is deprived of her children, every thing but the capacity of suffering...heart, withered and desolate, admits no other object, eherishes no other hope. It is Kachael weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because...

...that he is obliged to depart, they mourn and weep. In their seasons of sorrow, Rachel is often seen weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are not; the bereaved and distressed beat upon their breasts, rend their garments, throw the dust into the air,...

...and a 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 out the...

...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 occasion,...

...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 from the husband...

...judgments upon the Jews, under the beautiful personification of Rachel rising from the dead looking in vain for her children, and refusing to be comforted because they are not, is adduced by Matthew as fulfilled in the sorrow which was produced by the massacre of the babes in...

...that day a house of mourning. Once more a voice was heard, as in Ramah, " weeping and lamentation — Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they were not." As if sympathising with her " whose sun had gone down while it was yet day," the sun had...

...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...

...Has not a voice oft been heard, like that which was once heard in Ramah, — the voice of a mother " weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are not ?" And when the object so inordinately loved is not altogether taken away, it is sometimes withered...

...tragical event, no design could so graphically set it forth as the pathetic image of the prophet : " Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are not." The fourth passage refers to our Lord's place of abode during his earlier years, " And he came and...