...cases, " wherefore didst thou doubt ?" Let us learn to imitate the submission of the devout Psalmist, " I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because thou didst it ;" or rather, to adopt the words of our blessed Lord himself, " Even so Father, for so it seemed good...

...but those that be of men. I 1 SAM. iii. 18 : Tt is the LORD : let him do what seemeth him good. Ps. xxxix. 9 : I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it. MAT. ri. 10 : Thy will be done in k ACTS, xx. 24. 16 There went with us also certain of the disciples...

...afflicted children can hush to silence the rising murmur of the soul, and adopt the Psalmist's language, " I was dumb, I opened not my mouth ; because thou didst it." Psalm xxxix. 6. They have in the prophets, " an example of suffering affliction and of patience ; "...

...submission under sufferings the most acute, nnd that entire acquiescense in the sovereign will of God : ' I was dumb, I opened not my mouth ; because thou didst it,' ixxi^.9. Witness that supernatural detachment from the world, which enables him to resign, without...

...reposing on his perfections and promises, to bow with silent submission to his sovereign will.—" I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because thou didst it." Oh that there were, my brethren, such a heart in us—such a faith, such a submission, and such a readiness...

...from his mouth. With the most appropriate truth she might have adopted the words of the Psalmist, " I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because Thou didst it." " I was as one that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs." The trials with which she was...

...which I see not, teach thou me : if I have done iniquity, I will do so no more. — Jobxxxiv. 31, 32. I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because thou didst it. — Ps. xxxix. 9. Woe to him that striveth with his Maker, &c. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth...

...beloved fellow.pilgrim to Jerusalem. But the blow is from the hand of an allwise and all-gracious Father. I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because thou didst it. We have cause to praise him that our brother was spared to be so long useful, and that his dying hours...

...my hope is in thee. 8 Deliverme from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish. 9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth ; because thou didst it. 10 Remove thy stroke away from me : I am consumed by the blow of thy hand. 11 When thou with rebukes...

...a weaned child before thee." In prayer we plead for the grace of submission : the Psalmist says, " I was dumb, I opened not my mouth because thou didst it." In prayer we ask for fixedness of strength, for the spirit of love and obedience: the Psalmist exclaims...