...our country. Jesus shewed himself a patriot when he wept over Jerusalem. " O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how often would I have gathered thee as a hen gathereth her brood under her wings, and ye would not." Love to country is right ; and we have reason to love our...

...mother over her lost children, saying, of even the worst of cities, as containing the worst of men, " How often would I have gathered thee as a hen gathereth...her chickens under her wings ; but ye would not!" — "I would, but ye would not" — there is at once the sinner's responsibility and consummation of...

...compassion that after ages have not yet adequately entertained and felt them, " O, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how often would I have gathered thee as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not;" there, in all probability, where they mocked, and despised, and scorned...

...guilty conduct which caused the Saviour to weep over Jerusalem, and say, " 0 Jerusalem! Jerusalem! how often would I have gathered thee as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! " f " If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things...

...compassion that after ages have not yet adequately entertained and felt them, " O, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how often would I have gathered thee as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not;" there, in all probability, where they mocked, and despised, and scorned...

...compassion that after ages have not yet adequately entertained and felt them, " O, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how often would I have gathered thee as a hen gathe'reth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not;" there, in all probability, where they mocked, and despised, and scorned...

...dying infant, gave utterance to these words, " 0 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that stonest the prophets ; how often would I have gathered thee as a hen gathereth her brood under her wings, and ye would not." And what more remarkable friendship than that which subsisted...

...days : " O Jerusalem, Jerusalem ; thou that stonest the prophets, and killest them that are sent unto thee ; how often would I have gathered thee as a hen .gathereth her brood under her wings, and ye would not." That is the most exquisite picture, I think, in any writer,...

...the world was not worthy ? And what of the Son of man, who closed his labors crying, " O Jerusalem, how often would I have gathered thee as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, but ye would not !" and who, instead of blessing those only who succeed, said, "Blessed are they" which are persecuted...

...nature as fire, is a lively emblem of God's universal operative Presence ; and our Saviour's saying, How often would I have gathered thee, as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings ! is an affecting illustration of the Divine affection, and His own yearning compassion,...