...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 I' Poor Friday, however, began to cry, and I felt disposed to keep him company, when Robinson...

...for ever. My young, my beautiful, my brave ! She is taken from me ; I am left bereaved of her. The Lord giveth, 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...

...after laying him in the earth, as you have done of your Jessie, I could have said as in her case, " The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away, blessed be the name of the Lord." But all my other trials put together could not balance what I have suffered, and still at...

...down, O my soul; why art thou disquieted within me ? Trust in the Lord, and return to thy rest. The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away, blessed be the name of the Lord." Be this the language of those who now mourn in Zion. Your loss may be great, your affliction...

...gathered around, offering words of consolation, but they were only as idle murmurs in her ears. " The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away— blessed be the name of the Lord," said tho good pastor, who, only a year before, had lifted the sweet boy in his arms,and,in...

...thou deprive us of any thing dear to our hearts, without the purpose of doing us greater good. The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away ; blessed be the name of the Lord. Blessed be God, for every testimony of conscience that we have endeavoured faithfully to...

...bound to do by my oath of allegiance, from which I know no power on earth that can absolve me. The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away, blessed be the name of the Lord. His ways are inscrutable, and I humbly submit to his decrees, which are all founded in wisdom....

...he answers is, in his own dialect, everyway sincere, and yet equivalent to that of Christians, 'The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away ; blessed be the name of the Lord.' He answered in like manner of Seid, his emancipated well-beloved Slave, the second of the...

...agony of spirit, but with the deep feeling of resignation which religion alone can inspire, — " The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away, blessed be the name of the Lord!" " Grief wrings her soul and bends it down to earth." This rencontre, which had been too...

...possessions, the believer u able to say, ' It is the Lord ; let him do what seem. '!I him good.' ' The r him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine the Lord !' ' Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and seen the end of the Lord, that he is very pitiful.'...