...affliction, is frequent, both in Scriptures and in Classical writers. § O my God, says the Psalmist, my soul is cast down within me. All thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.|| Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Thy fierce wrath goeth...

...by its eager desire to enjoy the presence of God, is heard in yet- sharper and distincter tones : " O my God ! my soul is cast down within me : all Thy waves and Thy billows are gone over me." Then strikes in, accompanied by stringed instruments, a noble quartet of men's voices, full of consolation...

...seem dark, but, soon or late, They touch the shining hills of day. "O my GOD, my soul is cast dawn within me, . . . all Thy waves and Thy billows are gone over me." — Ps. xlii. 6, 7. " If in the land of peace, wherein tbou trustedst, they wearied tbee, Iben bow...

...the female voices ("Trust thou in God"). Again the soprano voice is heard in pathetic recitative (" O my God ! my Soul is cast down within me ; all Thy Waves and thy Billows are gone over me ") . A beautiful quartet of male voices with string accompaniment replies : " The Lord will command...

...mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me. O my God, my soul is cast down within me: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me. Will the Lord cast off forever? and will he be favorable no more? Is his mercy clean gone forever?...

...disquieted within me? Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise Him for the help of His countenance. О my God, my soul is cast down within me : all Thy waves and Thy billows are gone over me. Yet Jehovah will command His lovingkindness in the day-time; and in the night His song shall be with...

...Him flee before Him," and that eloquent lamentation, " My tears have been my meat day and night . . . O my God, my soul is cast down within me ... all Thy waves and Thy billows are gone over me." Natural enough may these curses and wailings sound upon the lips of a mature Calvinist, but in the...

...and unction. The minister then read the fortysecond Psalm, as expressive of his own inward feeling. " O my God, my soul is cast down within me ; all thy waves and thy billows have gone over me ; '' and called on another elder to pray, who, entering fully into the spirit of...

...God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I com.? and appear before the Lord? O my God, my soul is cast down within me; all Thy waves and billows are gone over me: as with a sword in my bones I am reproached. Yet the Lord will command His...