 | Joseph Thorpe Milner - 1836 - 256 pages
...of Providence he was divinely supported, and enabled to exclaim, with holy resignation, " The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away, and blessed be the name of the Lord." The disposition of this child was remarkably amiable. He rarely displayed any thing like irritability... | |
 | Richard Salter Storrs - 1836 - 452 pages
...heavy, as it was our only child, especially so to the mother. But we trust we can both say, ' The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away, and blessed be the name of the Lord.' We had solemnly giveji him up in baptism, and repeatedly in secret ; and we are under covenant obligations... | |
 | Mrs. M. A. Patrick - 1837 - 214 pages
...I have been afflicted.' Can you say with one whose afflictions are deservedly proverbial, 'The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away, and blessed be the name of the Lord? This is the state of mind which we ought to desire and cultivate when called to experience great affliction.... | |
 | Johannes Zollikofer - 1837 - 722 pages
...and hold them at thy disposal ; and if they are recalled from us, may we be enabled to say, the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away ; and blessed be the name of the Lord. Fit us for all events. We know not what a day may bring forth ; but we encourage ourselves in the Lord... | |
 | Pocket prayer book - 1838 - 590 pages
...of the potter. May our language be, " It is the Lord, let him do what scemeth him good !" " The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away, and blessed be the name of the Lord !" We desire to know wherefore the Lord is contending with us. 447 Are there any in this household... | |
 | 1838 - 746 pages
...not weep ? Did you not think God unkind ? No, my child, he replied, I remembered my motto " The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away and blessed be the name of the Lord." And was there no one to bury your sons ? What a good thing their mother died before, she would have... | |
 | John Leifchild, Redford (Rev. Dr.) - 1838 - 466 pages
...house, they could submissively say, " It is the Lord, let him do what seemeth him good." " The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away, and blessed be the name of the Lord." Let Christians strive to be imitators of God. His consolations are not given for our own benefit only.... | |
 | Thomas Allen - 1839 - 604 pages
...O tliou fairest among women! O thou virtuous woman! the hand of the Lord it ih done this. The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away, and blessed be the name of the Lord." Of the Ethiopic, the following is a translation :— ' 'I hi:, U,l) was truly religious, virtuous,... | |
 | George Frederick Maclear - 1868 - 544 pages
...tidings reached him of the fate of his household he said, in words of sublime resignation, The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away, and blessed be the name of the Lord; when his wife, utterly unable to bear up, bade him curse his Maker and die, he replied, What? shall... | |
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The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away, and blessed be the name of the Lord. 
