...disease, that his character was beclouded, and that he had just uttered this pathetic exclamation, " Have pity upon me ! O, ye my friends, for the hand of God hath touched me." W hen we consider these circumstances, we surely may conclude that, at such a time, it could not be...

...cannot, with a careless mien and an unfeeling heart, listen to a sufferer who cries, " Pity me, pity me, O ye my friends, for the hand of God hath touched me." " Be kind," said Moses to the Jews, " be kind to strangers, for ye know the heart of a stranger ; for...

...of languishing? that, by your tears and prayers, you are answering to the address — Pity me, pity me, O ye my friends ! for the hand of God hath touched me ? The estate of our brethren may call for assistance ; and is to be relieved according to our ability....

...pleasure, and with a conviction that they shall not be heard in vain, when they cry, "pity me, pity me, O ye, my friends, for the hand of God hath touched me." Sympathy, I know, is produced and cherished by experience. If you endured the sorrow under which you...

...Almighty. For he maketh sove and bindeth up : he woundeth, and his hands make whole."-— Job v. " Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends, for the hand of God hath touched me." " For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto...

...from you, and your acquaintance into darkness ;" and, in deep anguish, you are ready to exclaim : " Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends, for the hand of God hath touched me." Your friends do indeed pity you ; but they are anxious that you should do right. Is there no danger,...

...soul. ' » We may also make our complaint to man. Job did so : — " Have pity upon me," says he, " have pity upon me, O ye my friends ; for the hand of God hath touched me." It is a great mercy if we have friends who are wise, faithful, and experienced. They are born for such...

...and perhaps suffer as much by sympathy as he himself suffers, when I hear him cry, " Pity me, pity me, O ye my friends, for the hand of God hath touched me." Thirdly, Those which are produced by our being bereaved of them. There are few but have felt these...

...reproves him harshly for attempting to know the mind of the Omnipotent, and for vindicating himself: again accuses him of unknown crimes, and beseeches...his fallen state with the days when the light of God shincd on his tabernacle. " When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children, were about me," he...

...and truth' may support and console the bosom of the widow and orphan. His text was Job, xix. 21. " Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends ; for the hand of God hath touched me." In Plainfield I spent a few happy weeks. One dear servant of Christ was called to leave the world....