...and learn of me ; for I am meek and lowly in heart : and ye shall find rest unto your souls."t — " Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive : and let thy widows trust in me. "| — " Fear not, little flock ; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give...

...of his servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before him.' [Psalm cii. 28.] ' Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive ; and let thy widows trust in me.' [Jeremiah xlix. 11.] Thankful, therefore, that our times are in the hand of a...

...compassionate Father and a faithful God. The tenderest encouragement is given to the most destitute — " Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive ; and let thy widows trust in me." Jer. xlix. 1 1 . How invaluable this promise from the God of the whole earth,...

...leave behind you those who seem to hang on your care? Hear this Saviour at your dying bed, saying — "Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive ; and let thy widow trust in me." " O fear the Lord, all ye his saints ; for there is no want to them that fear him. The young lions...

...a merciful Creator, but cleaving, with a fervent faith and hope, to the promises of eternal life. " Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me." Three months afterwards, she learned that a press-gang had boarded the vessel,...

...touched with the feeling of our infirmities," and language, the most consoling, drops from his lips : '' Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive, and let thy widow trust in me." Now does his heart leap for joy, and now with his departing breath he says to those so dear to him,...

...weeping around him he said, " you have no reason to sorrow as those that have no hope : God has said, ' leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive ; and let thy widows trust in me.' If I am taken away, you will have new relations and promises to claim which you...

...have a good friend to leave them to — a covenanted God, to whom you may confidently commit them : " Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me." The world can bear witness of signal settlements o made upon the children of providence,...

...fire, thou shalt not be burnt, neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. He says to the dying father, Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive ; and let thy widows trust in me. He enables the dying father to reply to his orphans, Behold, I die ; but God shall...

...saint, in the midst of weeping dependants, has felt, as a cordial to his heart, the Divine assurance, Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive, and let thy widow trust in me." We may apply this still more to the cause of God. Here he uses means, and we ought to esteem them,...