The voice in Rama hushed; or, Consolation for bereaved parents [&c.].

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Seite 11 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief ? Fare you well: had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do.
Seite 24 - Oh ! when a Mother meets on high The Babe she lost in infancy, Hath she not then, for pains and fears, The day of woe, the watchful night, For all her sorrow, all her tears, An over-payment of delight...
Seite 13 - Behold, all souls are Mine: as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is Mine : the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
Seite 5 - Rachel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not. Thus saith the Lord ; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears : for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the Lord; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy. And there is hope in thine end, saith the Lord, that thy children shall come again to their own border.
Seite 12 - See now that I, even I, am he, And there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: Neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
Seite 24 - ... it will then gladden that eye which now weeps out the agony of an affection that has been sorely wounded ; and in the name of Him who if on earth would have wept along with them, do we bid all believers present, to sorrow not even as others which have no hope, but to take comfort in the thought of that country where there is no sorrow and no separation.
Seite 22 - Beneath this stone four infants' ashes lie: Say, are they lost or saved ? If death's by sin, they sinned; for they are here; If heaven's by works, in heaven they can't appear. Reason, ah, how depraved ! Revere the Bible's sacred page; the knot's untied: They died, for Adam sinned; they live, for Jesus died.
Seite 20 - ... the pain of crying, nor of being sick, nor of dying ; and hath wholly escaped the trouble of schooling, and all...
Seite 23 - ... of a light that twinkled a few short months under his roof, and at the end of its little period expired, we cannot think that we venture too far, when we say, that he has only to persevere in the faith and in the following of the gospel, and that...
Seite 23 - Christianity do not throw a pleasing radiance around an infant's tomb 1 and should any parent who hears us, feel softened by the touching remembrance of a light," that twinkled a few short months under his roof, and at the end of its little period expired — we cannot think that we venture too far, when we say that he...

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