 | Baptists - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Robert Pedder Buddicom - 1839 - 1038 pages
...Submissive faith has a joy wherewith a stranger doth not intermeddle — a joy in Christ. " The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away, and blessed be the name of the Lord." 1 And if the corpse of a dear friend hath power to draw, not only our hearts, but our feet, to the... | |
 | James P. Miller - Presbyterian Church - 1839 - 536 pages
...under the trying dispensation. Writing to a friend an account of the last event, he added, " The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away, and blessed be the name of the Lord" The two brothers had been from childhood singularly attached to each other, and the providential circumstances... | |
 | 1866 - 316 pages
...leaving her husband and her darling children to mourn and weep, and then to say — " The Lord gave, the Lord hath taken away ; and blessed be the name of the Lord." Oh Death.' — in thyself how dreadful thou art: Haw cruel! How severe ! Yet, when thou art but a messenger... | |
 | George Müller - 1867 - 76 pages
...Sovereign for the Orphans, being an acknowledgment of the hand of the Lord even in reverses. ' The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away, and blessed be the name of the Lord.' I am, Dear Sir, yours truly * * * *." — July 27. £19. 19s. as the legacy of the late Miss L. 8.... | |
 | George Frederick Maclear - Bible - 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... | |
 | Edmund Heywood - 1868 - 202 pages
...worshipped; and said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither. The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away, and blessed be the name of the Lord." David submissively said on the death of his child, " I shall go to him, but he shall not return to... | |
 | Chloe Bridgeman Conant Bierce - Congregationalists - 1869 - 172 pages
...morning, December 31, 1846, about seven o'clock. And now, O, that I could say from the heart " The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; and blessed be the name of the Lord." I feel that I am greatly afflicted, yet I have a great deal to comfort me My family are now half dead,... | |
 | George Frederick Maclear - Christian biography - 1869 - 376 pages
...and, before the sun went down, every external memorial of his mission was reduced to ashes. The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away, and blessed be the name of the Lord} was the exclamation of the archbishop, as he surveyed the scene. Driven from Hamburg, he now wandered... | |
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The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away, and blessed be the name of the Lord. 
