...pressing it fondly to her bosom, she feels her happiness, but she feels it in silence, for with her " the heart knoweth its own bitterness, and a stranger intermeddleth not with its joy." Soon after the resurrection of Lazarus, a feast is made for our Lord in the village of Bethany,...

...watched, and when her smile cheered her son, now sorrowing because be should see her face no more ! " The heart knoweth its own bitterness, and a stranger intermeddleth not with its joy !'* Throughout life, the image of his mother was always dear to Dr. Clarke's heart and memory :...

...the sources of gratitude must, of course, differ widely. In that vast family of human beings, every heart knoweth its own bitterness, and a stranger intermeddleth not with its joys ; and there are mercies and comforts peculiar to each individual case, for which he or she alone...

...himself has girded on the divine panoply, and encountered the armies of the aliens ? No, my brethren ; " The heart knoweth its own bitterness, and a stranger intermeddleth not with its joy." But the points embraced in these interrogatories comprehend the sum and substance of the minister's...

...perpetual blessings; for, as sure as adversity led the van, so sure prosperity brought up the rear : The heart knoweth its own bitterness, and a stranger intermeddleth not with his joy. Never, no never, did the Holy Spirit wholly withhold his prevalent intercession from me in...

...through infinite mercy I trust I may consider as mine, I can ever be cast down ; but dear friend, " the heart knoweth its own bitterness, and a stranger intermeddleth not with it," and there are moments when present sorrows, heavily mingling with the remembrance of the past,...

...left to sustain the burden of our own ills. How applicable to our state is that passage of Scripture,' The heart knoweth its own bitterness, and a stranger intermeddleth not with its joy. 1 ' " Now, look at this poor family; here is a clergyman provided for them, whom they do not,...

...that he appreciated what that blow meant to us all." Perhaps you have so fully adopted the saying that the heart knoweth its own bitterness and a stranger intermeddleth not with its joy, as to forget the value of a kind word, the pressure of the hand, the assurance of sympathy. Christiana...

...subject matter of your communication brought to my recollection the saying of the wise man, " Every heart knoweth its own bitterness, and a stranger intermeddleth not with its joy." I can truly sympathize with you in the long detfcil of painful exercises through which you have...

...idea of the conflicting saint's joy, or the inward sorrows cf his breast; hence it is said, "Every heart knoweth its own bitterness, and a stranger intermeddleth not with its joy." I entreat of you ever to bear in mind, that so deceptive is the influence of sin, in its unsubdued...