...of his life were torn from him, when the tenderest tics of love and friendship were broken, when he was " made to possess months of vanity and wearisome nights were appointed to him," when amidst all the deU 185 pression of disease his cheerfulness forsook Jvm not, and in the...

...also the pain of my body. " My way was now indeed hedged up with thorns and with a wall, so that I could not find my path." Hosea ii. 6. " I was made...3. But all this was necessary, and little enough to bring me to a sense of sin ; nor would these afflictions have had the least effect, excepting, perhaps,...

...upon his children; they fell upon his person. He was covered with sore boils from bead to foot; he was made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights were appointed him : his wife urged him to curse God and die ; and his friends, mistaking his case, reproached him...

...divine contentment under a most eminent way, crying out, Blessed be the name of the Lord ; when he was made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights were appointed for him, then he crieth 2 B 3 out, / choose strangling and death, rather than life. And we shall only...

...morning I said, "Would God it were evening ;" and in the evening I said, "Would God it were morning!" I was made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights were appointed to me. When I said, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint ;" then I was scared...

...through Jesus Christ. Severely as his family must feel this bereavement, they cannot but remember how he was ' made to possess months .of vanity, and wearisome nights were appointed unto him,' and now they sorrow not as those who have no hope." AUDITION'S AND CoRIÎF.i TU>XS. 319...

...; I hope to be in glory by next Sabbath." That hope, indeed, was not realized ; for after that, he was "made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights were appointed him." But the ground of that hope remained unshaken, and his prospect of heaven unclouded. Early in...

...age. Her sickness was of long duration, and at times of a severe character. Like the patriarch, she was made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights were appointed "to her. Still it was good for her to be afflicted, for she found the Saviour's presence to cheer her...

...most of my time alone. It was now, for the first time in my life, that I knew real affliction of body. I was made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights were appointed to me. I was full of tossings to and fro. In certain instances my days were spent without hope and...