...house, they could submissively say, " It is the Lord, let him do what seemeth him good." " The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away, and blessed be the name of the Lord." Let Christians strive to be imitators of God. His consolations are not given for our own benefit only....

...Submissive faith has a joy wherewith a stranger doth not intermeddle — a joy in Christ. " The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away, and blessed be the name of the Lord." 1 And if the corpse of a dear friend hath power to draw, not only our hearts, but our feet, to the...

...under the trying dispensation. Writing to a friend an account of the last event, he added, " The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away, and blessed be the name of the Lord" The two brothers had been from childhood singularly attached to each other, and the providential circumstances...

...O tliou fairest among women! O thou virtuous woman! the hand of the Lord it ih done this. The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away, and blessed be the name of the Lord." Of the Ethiopic, the following is a translation :— ' 'I hi:, U,l) was truly religious, virtuous,...

...leaving her husband and her darling children to mourn and weep, and then to say — " The Lord gave, the Lord hath taken away ; and blessed be the name of the Lord." Oh Death.' — in thyself how dreadful thou art: Haw cruel! How severe ! Yet, when thou art but a messenger...

...Sovereign for the Orphans, being an acknowledgment of the hand of the Lord even in reverses. ' The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away, and blessed be the name of the Lord.' I am, Dear Sir, yours truly * * * *." — July 27. £19. 19s. as the legacy of the late Miss L. 8....

...worshipped; and said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither. The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away, and blessed be the name of the Lord." David submissively said on the death of his child, " I shall go to him, but he shall not return to...

...tidings reached him of the fate of his household he said, in words of sublime resignation, The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away, and blessed be the name of the Lord; when his wife, utterly unable to bear up, bade him curse his Maker and die, he replied, What? shall...

...and, before the sun went down, every external memorial of his mission was reduced to ashes. The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away, and blessed be the name of the Lord} was the exclamation of the archbishop, as he surveyed the scene. Driven from Hamburg, he now wandered...

...morning, December 31, 1846, about seven o'clock. And now, O, that I could say from the heart " The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; and blessed be the name of the Lord." I feel that I am greatly afflicted, yet I have a great deal to comfort me My family are now half dead,...