...human weakness, with the religion which tells us that " they who mourn are blessed," and which commands to "rejoice with them that rejoice, and to weep with them that weep." If Stoicism, in its full development, was utterly opposed to Christianity, the same may be said of...

...appreciation of home-life, and a sympathy strong and tender with the suffering and sorrowstricken. He knew how to rejoice with them that rejoice, and to weep with them that weep. In visiting the sick, he ever bore himself like one who, by nature, experience, and grace, was particularly...

...thoughtful in his attention in the homes into which death had entered ! He was able, above most men, to rejoice with them that rejoice, and to weep with them that weep. (3) I notice next in order his singleness of aim. He was, in a profound sense, a man of one idea. Early...

...here, when we are exhorted to " distribute to the necessity of saints," to be " given to hospitality," to " rejoice with them that rejoice, and to weep with them that weep." I believe that a great measure of helpfulness and kindness is shown by the poor, one toward another;...

...ready hand to give to others the like precious things we ourselves possess. There is not the readiness to rejoice with them that rejoice, and to weep with them, that weep. We have not yet learned the lesson by heart, " to love our neighbour as ourselves." There is too mnch...

...aims ; the idol that is set up in your heart ? or have you learned from the example of our Saviour, to rejoice with them that rejoice, and to weep with them that weep ? have you put on that charity which is the bond of perfectness ? Each season of life has its own peculiar...

...should have known, but unhappily know not ; to admonish the disorderly, to comfort the desponding, to rejoice with them that rejoice, and to weep with them that weep ; in fact, to lead on the portions of Christ's flock committed to their charge, until they be all united...

...clever with both hands, and able to say with the Apostle, "I know how to abound, and how to suffer need, to rejoice with them that rejoice, and to weep with them that weep." With such that line of Virgil is true, " Hens immota manet, laerymce volvnntur inanes." For the mind...

...self-repression and strangling of emotion, it now throbs with a holy sensitiveness, and with a monition to rejoice with them that rejoice, and to weep with them that weep. From the pagan word the flavor of immortality is absent. No vision of abiding rest imparts patience...

...any person, but every unreadiness to do good of all kinds, to all that we can ; every unwillingness to rejoice with them that rejoice, and to weep with them that weep, and love our neighbour as ourselves ; every aversion to be inwardly all love, and outwardly all meekness,...