| Edward Gibbon Wakefield - 1833 - 706 páginas
...Crusoe's calmness and resignation were quite admirable. Rising he embraced Friday, saying — " the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away ; blessed be the name of the Lord !" Poor Friday, however, began to cry ; and I felt disposed to keep him company, when Robinson... | |
| Alexander Whitelaw - 1835 - 460 páginas
...crying infant, — often * have heard him whisper to himself, (and to another who heard him!) " The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away, blessed be the name of the Lord." Such men need not always make bad neighbours. In the early progress of the fever, before... | |
| Ebenezer Erskine, Donald Fraser - 1836 - 612 páginas
...will, the heart yields to that also saying, " Here am I, let him do to me as seemeth him good — I he Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away; blessed be the name of the Lord." Under favourable providences he is ready to bless the Lord, saying, " What am I or my father's... | |
| Mary Martha Sherwood - 1836 - 604 páginas
...supporting a certain rank in society, I must as a Christian submit cheerfully to his divine will ; for the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away, blessed be the name of the Lord. I cannot afford to keep two really good servants ; I must therefore make up the deficiency... | |
| Edward Ward - 1836 - 200 páginas
...have no hope. It is the hand of a Father that smites ; and he smites not in anger, but in love. "The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away : blessed be the name of the Lord !" Do your fears arise from the remains of indwelling sin ? This is a just cause for deep... | |
| 1836 - 234 páginas
...husband ; and to bear even the loss of our first-born child, assured that we shall meet again." " The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away : blessed be the name of the Lord." THE CHRISTIAN REJOICING IN GOD, AFTER DELIVERANCE FROM HIS SPIRITUAL ENEMIES. " My heart... | |
| Daniel Neal - 1837 - 648 páginas
...and that in Job is set before us for our example, upon whom the ends of the world are come ; ' The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away ; blessed be the name of the Lord. In all this Job sinned not,' &c. 4thly. We have since our confinement tasted a greater sweetness... | |
| Henry Duncan - 1836 - 472 páginas
...is severe, but he hesitates not to learn it, and in the resignation of his heart he exclaims, " The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away, blessed be the name of the Lord." If, in this spirit, a man engages in kthe various duties, and exercises the numerous relations... | |
| Edward Thompson - 1837 - 778 páginas
...meets the trial with the smile of faith, he bears the blow, and murmurs, though perhaps faintly, " The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away, blessed be the name of the Lord." And view the Christian upon the bed of death. What see you there ? One pouring out his soul... | |
| 708 páginas
...River there too is He a God of help ! — On the 6th day of August, she lay dead ; at rest for ever. My young, my beautiful, my brave ! She is taken from...and the Lord taketh away ; blessed be the name of the Lord — !' ' His Highness,' says Maidston, ' being at Hampton Court, sick' ened a little before... | |
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