 | Daniel Defoe - 1855 - 520 pages
...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.... | |
 | John Lewis - 1855 - 390 pages
...lose the last of his earthly possessions, or even life itself. The language of his heart was, il The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away ; blessed be the name of the Lord." It is proper to make the reader acquainted with the circumstances which led to the suit... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1855 - 540 pages
...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.... | |
 | John Cumming - 1856 - 490 pages
...evidence, again, of communion with and confidence in God, is when one can say, "It is the Lord ; the Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away ; blessed be the name of the Lord." Another proof of departure from God is, less confidence in him. Tou begin to think of God,... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 458 pages
...broken hearts, or pine away disconsolately to their graves? Think not that they, who were Christians indeed, could be guilty of such ingratitude. " The...and the Lord taketh away — blessed be the name of the Lord ! " were the first words they had spoke by that bedside ; during many, many long years of... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 500 pages
...broken hearts, or pine away disconsolately to their graves ? Think not that . they, who were Christians indeed, could be guilty of such ingratitude. " The...and the Lord taketh away — blessed be the name of the Lord!" were the first words they had spoke by that bedside ; during many, many long years of weal... | |
 | Steven H. Richardson - 1999 - 268 pages
...herself what she always considered the toughest verse in the Bible. It came from the book of Job, For the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away; blessed be the name of the Lord. She drew strength from the blessed name of the Lord while she served Fred's refreshments... | |
 | Katherine McCuaig - 1999 - 418 pages
...any church burial service today, and you will hear the officiating parson read from the service: 'The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away, Blessed be the name of the Lord.' In the light of modern knowledge, can you conceive of anything more libellous on the Almighty?... | |
 | LeeAnn Whites - 2000 - 289 pages
...had no power to change. As Gertrude Clanton Thomas recorded upon the death of her first infant, "The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away. Blessed be the name of the Lord." In her next sentence, however, she burst forth, "But oh it is hard. Nature rebels and turns... | |
 | Bryan S. Turner - 2000 - 608 pages
...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... | |
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The Lord giveth, and the Lord ' taketh away ; blessed be the name of the Lord. 
