CHAPTER 12
"In Ramah there was a voice heard,--weeping, and lamentation, and great mourning; Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted." [epigraph] --
See Jeremiah 31, 15-16.
"As to Tom, he was thinking over some words of an unfashionable old book, which kept running through his head again and again, as follows: 'We have here no continuing city, but we seek one to come; wherefore God himself is not ashamed to be called our God; for he hath prepared for us a city.'" --
See Hebrews 13, 14-16.
"though 'they that wasted them required of them mirth'" --
See Psalm 137, 3.
"'"Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be," the scripture says.'" [a clergyman] --
See Genesis 9, 25.
"'"All things whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, do ye even unto them."'" [a tall young man] --
See Matthew 7, 12.
"Bear thou, like him, in patience, and labor in love; for sure as he is God, 'the year of his redeemed shall come.'" --
See Isaiah 63, 4.