...when he saw him taken up from the earth; doth Joash now speak of Elisha, near his dissolution ; " Oh, my father, my father, the chariots of Israel, and the horsemen thereof!" The words were good, the tears were pious, but where are the actions ? Oh, Joash ! if the prophet were...

...sad, sad tidings to his poor family. Sabbath. June 27. Mr. Mottershcad preached for dear brother — " My father, my father, the chariots of Israel, and the horsemen thereof." God will own his faithful servants, living and dying; the angels are fellow-servants with the saints,...

...Luther, the Knox, and the Henderson of our day, all in one — was taken from us, and we had to cry, " My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof!" Hamilton, Macdonald, Stewart, Speirs, and youthful Innes of Canobie, — standard-bearers all of them,...

...Dr. Hart accordingly came, true to his promise, preaching at the funeral from the words of Elisha, " My father, my father ; the chariots of Israel, and the horsemen thereof." In the burial-ground adjoining his meeting-house lies all that was mortal of Samuel Hopkins. One of...

...Dr. Hart accordingly came, true to his promise, preaching at the funeral from the words of Elisha, " My father, my father ; the chariots of Israel, and the horsemen thereof." In the burial-ground adjoining his meeting-house lies all that was mortal of Samuel Hopkins. One of...

...departed Elisha felt that Israel had sustained a greater loss than that of an army. Hence he exclaimed, " My father ! my father ! the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof." Queen Mary said " she was more afraid of the prayers of John Knox than an army of ten thousand men."...

...stood before it for some minutes, gazing with a smile of affection upon it, and murmured to himself : "my father, my father, the chariots of Israel, and the horsemen thereof ! " Not many hours after, he was again seated at his study table. He had promised that the following...

...now, and need still more the prayers of the Church ; well may the saddened sons say with one of old, " My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof.! " The Synod would join the request of these bereaved sons, and ask the prayers of the Church for the...

...not to fipd a rest, no, not a pause of a rest here, while the battle is waging. He who cried out, " My Father, my Father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof," turned from the departure of the loved one, to carry on his work with a double portion of his Spirit....

...and freshness of our loss, and remember our troubled times and look at the stormy world around us. " My father, my father, the chariots of Israel, and the horsemen thereof," seem to be the first utterances of our moved heartvoice. But even then, we recollect that all things...