...except, perhaps, once or twice a year, when some missionary passed along. Here she could truly say, "The ways of Zion do mourn because none come to the solemn feasts; all her gates are desolate." She felt for these desolations, and felt almost alone. But if she seldom was visited by tile ministers...

...am informed, (on being bathed when ten days old,) with the soot of a brass lamp. Lamentations, i. 1. How doth the city sit solitary that was full of people!...among the provinces, how is she become tributary! It appears that on the occasion referred to, a coin was struck, representing a woman in tears, sitting...

...afflicting widowhood — well has the inspired prophet Jeremiah represented thy destitute condition. " How doth the city sit solitary that was full of people!...among the provinces, how is she become tributary! She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; among all her lovers she hath none...

...afflicting widowhood — well has the inspired prophet Jeremiah represented thy destitute condition. " How doth the city sit solitary that was full of people!...among the provinces, how is she become tributary! She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks ; among all her lovers she hath none...

...become tributary ?' chap. i. 7. 1. 6. Above all, he deplores tho strokes levelled against religion : 'The ways of Zion do mourn because none come to the...feasts: all her gates are desolate : her priests sigh ; ber virgins are afflicted. The heathen have entered into her sanctuary ; the heathen concerning whom...

...among our neighbours are indebted to the instrumentality of our holy example for their conversion ? " The ways of Zion do mourn because none come to the solemn feasts : ah" her gates are desolate : her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness."...

..." woman forsaken and grieved in spirit," but an eloquent paraphrase of the opening of Lamentations: "How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of...among the provinces, how is she become tributary! she weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none...

...woman forsaken and grieved in spirit," but an eloquent paraphrase of the opening of Lamentations : " How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people...nations, and princess among the provinces, how is ehe become tributary ! she weepeth sore in the night, and her tears aro on her cheeks: among all her...

...the eagle of the heaven, they pursued upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness. How doth the city sit solitary that was full of people...among the nations, and princess among the provinces! Her tears are on her cheeks, among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her, all her friends have...

...and throughout the whole city, there is not one symptom of either commerce, comfort, or happiness. " How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people...was great among the nations, and princess among the people ; low is she become tributary ! From ;he daughter of Zion all her beauty s departed. All that...