Part 7
The righteous shall go away into life eternal. _Matt._ XXV., 46
Wait on the Lord; be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart. _Ps._ XXVII., 14
The Lord redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate. _Ps._ XXXIV., 22
The Lord knoweth them that trust in him. _Nah._ I., 7
Casting all your care upon him for he careth for you. _I Pet._ V., 7
As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about his people from hence forth even for ever. _Ps._ CXXV., 2
The righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance. _Ps._ CXII., 6
Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. _Ps._ XXX., 5
Many are the afflictions of the righteous; but the Lord delivereth him out of them all. _Ps._ XXXIV., 19
They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him. _Ps._ CXXVI., 5-6
Their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more. _Jer._ XXXI., 12
I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow. _Jer._ XXXI., 13
A refuge in times of trouble. _Ps._ IX., 9
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. _John_ XVI., 33
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation. _Ps._ LXVIII., 5
Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints. _Ps._ CXVI., 15
My grace is sufficient for thee, for my strength is made perfect in weakness. _II Cor._ XII., 9
I am thy shield and thy exceeding great reward. _Gen._ XV., 1
The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms. _Deut._ XXXIII., 27
The promise of life which is in Christ Jesus. _II Tim._ I., 1
A bruised reed shall he not break. _Isa._ XLII., 3
For Letters of Congratulation
I take great pleasure in sending hearty congratulations and best wishes
It is with heartfelt pleasure I——
I cannot refrain from sending a few words of congratulation that——
We offer you our cordial congratulations and best wishes
My most sincere congratulations are yours
I hope in a few days to be able to offer my congratulations in person
Accept hearty congratulations
With most sincere congratulations
I write to offer my heartfelt congratulations
You will receive many hearty congratulations but none more sincere than mine
It must have been a great joy to you. I heartily congratulate you
I applaud you
For Letters of Introduction
It gives me great pleasure to introduce to you ————
I take this opportunity of presenting to you ————
I take great pleasure in making known to you ————
This letter is presented by my friend ————
I shall regard it as a kindness to myself if——
Any courtesy you can extend to ————
I shall appreciate any assistance you may give to ————
I shall regard any attention you can pay ———— as a personal favor
I shall warmly appreciate any attention you may pay to ————
For Letters of Invitation
Will you give us the pleasure of your company to——
I am asking a few friends to——
It would be a pleasure to have you——
Will you join us in——
The pleasure of your company is requested to——
Hoping that your engagements will permit
In anticipation of seeing you next——
———— requests the presence of ————
———— requests the pleasure of your presence at——
For Letters of Regret
I write at once to thank you, regretting most sincerely that——
I very much regret that I cannot accept your kind invitation to——
I regret that a previous engagement will prevent my acceptance of your very kind invitation to——
I very much regret that I cannot avail myself of the opportunity to——
I am grateful to you for your kind invitation, but——
I regret that I am unable to comply with your request because——
I regret extremely that——
For Letters of Thanks
Please accept my grateful acknowledgments for——
I will ever cherish your beautiful gift
My compliments and thanks to ————
Thank you most heartily for the——
Many thanks for the——
With hearty thanks for your kind thought of me
Best of thanks for your kind thought of me
I cannot express my thanks for the kindness which prompted you to——
Many thanks for the kind remembrance
With grateful appreciation for——
Thank you most heartily for——
How can I ever hope to repay you for——
I am extremely grateful to you for——
I am sending this letter as the silent messenger of my thanks and good wishes to you
I must find some way to make due acknowledgment of your goodness to me
I trust I may be able to do you some service, that I may be worthy of your kind approbation
I will not write more but wait until a better opportunity enables me to more fully express myself
Please allow me to send my most thankful acknowledgments for the favor you have conferred upon me
I know not how to express my grateful thanks for your——
The grateful sense I have of your kindness will never be erased from my mind
I take this first opportunity to send you my thanks for——
You have exceedingly obliged me by——
I beg to acknowledge, with thanks, the receipt of——
I am grateful to you for your kind expression of sympathy
Though your kind letter has waited so long for a reply, you may be assured that I was not unmindful of its messages of sympathy
Please accept my warmest thanks for your kindness
I am deeply indebted to you for——
I received your very agreeable letter, and hasten to give you my most hearty thanks for your——
I thank you for your hospitality
We had a most delightful time while with you
For Letters with Gifts
Please accept this little memento of our regard
Please accept this ———— as a token of high esteem and regard
Please accept as an evidence of unchanging friendship this ————
Please accept this token with my best wishes for many happy returns of your birthday
Will you be so kind as to accept the enclosed ————
I am sending to you a little token of my high regard
(CONCLUDING ASSURANCES)
For Christmas Letters
I send you tender tidings of regard this Christmas Day
I hope you will lack nothing to make a Merry Christmas
On this day I think of you, and wish you happiness without limit
May all joys combine to give you a happy Christmas Day
With best wishes and heartiest greetings for Christmas
I wish you a joyful Christmas from the bottom of my heart
With kind remembrances and all good wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Bright New Year
With best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a New Year of health and happiness
The best of good wishes for a happy Christmas
May Christmas bring you plenteous store of happiness and joy
Heaps of Christmas wishes
With the kindest thoughts and the best of good wishes for a happy Christmas
I heartily send all good Christmas wishes to you and yours
For Letters of Condolence
My prayer is that you may be wonderfully sustained by Him who hath said, “Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” Most sincerely yours,
I commend you to Him who hath said, “There shall be no more death, neither sorrow.” Affectionately yours,
May you have great comfort in the presence of Him who hath said, “I will not leave you destitute.” Your friend,
Ever remember the good word which tells us that “He shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.” Faithfully yours,
Though we pass through the valley and the darkness of death let us fear no evil since He is with us. Ever your friend,
God gives us a fine assurance concerning the future in the word which says, “For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.” Most sincerely yours,
With a prayer for every blessing on your self, Affectionately, your friend,
Be assured of our cordial esteem and fervent prayers. Very sincerely yours,
May God that comforteth those that are cast down comfort you in this trial is the prayer of Your friend,
We can meet the trials of life in the comforting conviction that this mortal must put on immortality. With warmest regards,
No doubt you are inclined to say that all is vanity and vexation of spirit, but do not do so for He knoweth the way that we take. Faithfully yours,
Now that the time has come that you are “Like Niobe, all tears” also the rather remember the word which says that “God shall wipe away all tears.” Most sincerely yours,
We send our love and commend you to Him who hath said He will “Swallow up death in victory.” Most sincerely yours,
While your heart is heavy, and one feel quite deserted, yet we can be much comforted in remembering that “He knoweth our frame.” and is ever mindful of us. With sincere sympathy, Your friend,
For New Year Letters
May this New Year turn out to be the happiest and the best
With best New Year wishes
May all your plans and wishes come true in this New Year
May the New Year be a happy year for you
A joyous New Year
With all best wishes for a splendid New Year
With all the kindest wishes for good health and good fortune throughout the year
With my most hearty greetings and sincere good wishes for you for all the coming year
With best wishes for a year of great blessing
May the New Year be full of the kindliest benedictions
With kind wishes for a year of the brightest prospects
For General Letters
I am ever, with sincerest regard, Your friend,
Remember me very kindly to ———— Sincerely,
I beg to be most kindly remembered to ———— With cordial regard,
Accept the sincerest esteem of Your friend,
My compliments to your ———— Very sincerely,
With sincere regard,
With kindest respects to your whole family, Yours affectionately,
I beg you will give my affectionate respects to all. Most cordially yours,
———— best and kindest wishes accompany mine. Most sincerely,
With truest regard,
With my best wishes for your recovery, and kindest regard to ———— I remain, affectionately yours,
———— joins me in kindest regards and best wishes. Sincerely yours,
Kind remembrance to all, and doubly to ————. As ever,
If you are at ————, remember me kindly to ———— Yours ever,
Give my kind respects to ———— Very sincerely yours,
We join in affectionate regards to ———— Sincerely,
———— present their respects, with those of Yours truly,
———— desire me to add their kind regards to mine, Your affectionate friend,
With truest good wishes. As ever,
When you see ———— assure ———— of my kind remembrance. Sincerely yours,
With my best regards to ———— I remain your friend,
With our joint regards to ————, I am ever, Yours sincerely,
My most affectionate respects to ———— Yours sincerely,
With kindest regards of my family and myself, I am sincerely yours,
Yours ever, my dear and honored friend, with true regard,
———— desires particularly to be remembered. Yours ever,
With every sentiment of regard. Your greatly obliged friend,
With truest sentiments of affectionate esteem. Your friend,
———— sends her best love. Yours ever most affectionately,
———— joins in every kind wish and remembrance. Yours ever,
With cordial wishes for your health, I am, Yours very sincerely,
My best respects to ———— Very faithfully yours,
———— is away or I should have been charged with ———— kindest regards to you. Very sincerely,
My best respects and kindest remembrances to the whole family circle at ———— Very sincerely yours,
We unite in kindest remembrance to your family. Sincerely yours,
———— begs her most affectionate remembrance to you. Affectionately yours,
(FINAL ASSURANCES)
Conventional
Very sincerely yours,
Yours most sincerely,
Very respectfully,
Sincerely yours,
Respectfully yours,
To Friends
Yours faithfully,
Yours affectionately,
Heartily yours,
Yours in all fellowship,
Warmly your friend,
Your affectionate friend,
Yours ever truly,
Ever warmly yours,
With warmest regards,
Yours in heart,
For Lovers
All yours,
As ever,
Your own,
Yours forever and ever,
Ever with the whole heart yours,
Most devotedly yours,
Yours constantly,
Yours ever,
Ever yours,
Yours, with love,
To Relatives
Your loving ————,
Affectionately your ————,
Your devoted ————,
With much love,
Your ever loving ————,
Devotedly your ————,
With much affection, your ————,
LIKENESS
Similarity Resemblance
As like as two peas
A striking parallel
As like as two drops of water
Nearly identical in appearance
The same in essential characteristics
Cast in the same mold
A striking similitude between——
Having a very close resemblance
A speaking likeness
It is somewhat analogous to——
It typifies most perfectly the——
With a very exact resemblance
There is no material difference between——
Terms which will be tantamount to——
Have you been struck with the similarity between——
It bears an evident analogy to——
Cut out of the same cloth
You can make it tally with——
LOSS
Damage Waste
This particular milk has been spilt
Incalculable waste and loss will be avoided if——
Doomed to ethical decline
Irreparable loss
Rapidly sapping the strength of——
In the blackness of darkness forever
Where does it end
LOVE
Attachment Affection
He’s the great heart-maker
Winsomely and lovingly
The sacrifices of love
Matchless kindness
Unwavering love
A redeeming love-energy
A glad service of love
A legacy of love
A flame of sacred love
The sweet kingdom of God’s love
The wondrous story of God’s love
The wonderful words of life
The genial flame of affection
The marvel of His love
The love that conquers
Love divine, all loves excelling
The glorious sense of the Divine right of love
Made beautiful by Divine love
The warm yearning intimacy of God’s love
The sweet and unpolluted flower of love
The richest joys out of heaven
If our bosom burns with the fires of love
Love that translated us from alienation to family favor
Love, pure, warm, and changeless
Songs of redeeming love
An eye of love
A heaven of love
Abounding love
With undiminished love
Love is the universal language
What the world needs is love
MANLY
Strong Upright
The sanctifying love of a strong victorious man
A patient, loving, uncomplaining soul
A clear-eyed seer of the things of God
An uncompromising foe of evil
Sagacious in spiritual things
A mind full of vigorous hopeful uplifting thoughts
He has a wonderful experience of grace
He passed through the fires of affliction
He is a graduate of the University of Difficulty
We are resolved to lay no stumbling-blocks in the way of the progress of the redemption of the world
We have the abiding consciousness that we are fundamentally right with God
He is in the apostleship of spiritual beauty
A great lover of mankind
He takes a living, loving interest in men
Moral worth
Resolved not to depart from the channel of truth
Holy in character
A warmth of temperament
Generous impulses
The imposing grace of a noble self-restraint
A chaste refinement of spirit
Splendid reserve power
Well content to go down to the grave unpraised
Taking steps toward the threshold of heaven
Walking in the blessed path of peace, power, and purity
A nobility of life
Worthy of more attention than it has yet received
A worthy friend
Hands full of character and delicacy
With unfaltering lip and heart
Men who love their fellow-men and prove their love by service
He did not once deviate from his principles
He has a profound contempt for show and humbug
Men broad-brained and broad-shouldered for the task
Men of breadth of outlook
Men who foresee great things
Large-hearted and clear-eyed men
Real leaders
Men who keep in the straight path of duty
Every man shall bear his own burden
Men whose fidelity merits the highest praise
Men who would dare hell-heat or Arctic cold
Men whose intentions were never open to honest doubt
A man whose happiness was in serving others
Strong men
Untinged by prejudice
Clouded by no unfriendliness
Without acrimony
With no preconceived theories
In whole-hearted simplicity
Above suspicion
With entire frankness
No feeling of estrangement
A gleam of friendly light
The right mental attitude
The right hand of fellowship
In the sunshine of a genial nature
In the genial glow of the firelight
Of gentle mien
The contagion of noble lives
A rare maturity of judgment
He has an unswerving loyalty to principle
He has an unconquerable purpose to be true
He is unfalteringly devoted to duty
He is inflexible in purpose
He is not paralysed by fear of consequences
He is beautifully loyal to——
He is proof against all blandishments
He sits tight in the saddle
MEMORIES
Impressions Sentiments
Among the most haunting memories of——
I treasure the memory of it as one of my most precious recollections
A time full of happy memories
I brought away with me a store of happy memories
Rich in historical memories
It moves me to happy memories
It entitles him to grateful remembrance
There are no disturbing reminders
They can console themselves with the reflection that——
It was reminiscent of——
I have many choice recollections of——
Etched forever by the——
MILITARISTIC
Martial Soldierly
The zone of hostilities
The harmless victims of war
Tactical retreat
Martial enthusiasm
A crack regiment
Universal disarmament
Strict neutrality
The inevitable horrors of war
A military advantage
The ruthlessness of war
The neutrality of nations
The international equivalent of the policeman’s club
The lust of empire
The cruel indignities of war
The long-nurtured passions of a nation
When the thunders of war are heard around the world
The arbitrament of arms
A test of materialism
An age crammed with war
The federation of the world
The policy of military preparedness
The patriotism of the common people
A military tattoo in the streets
The dominant military power in the world
The nightmare menace of war
The crime of Cain multiplied a million fold
The maintenance of peace
A sin against civilization
The stunning sense of some great calamity
The futility of militarism
The theater of hostilities
The allied armies
The pitiful misery of the people
An appalling cost of human life
The diplomatic corps
A compact front
Wanton destruction
The military camarilla at ————
Military necessity
Deliberate and wanton vandalism
With ruthless hand
The guilty madness of war
The inveterate belligerence of ————
A crushing indictment of Twentieth-Century civilization
The city tense with the excitement due to militarism
Imbued with the spirit of war
Prepared for vigorous operations
Under cover of the artillery
The oft-trodden battle-ground of the Low Countries
A warless world
An armed peace
The mailed fist
A religion of valor
The terrorism of military might
MYSTERIOUS
Dark Inscrutable
Into those invisible regions where we cannot follow
Clothed in a cloak of mystery
The fascination of the inscrutable
In some incomprehensible way
It seems a Sphinx whose riddle no man can read
Shrouded in mystery
A great deal of hokus-pokus
Hidden under the impenetrable veil of metaphor
Absolutely inexplicable
It was Greek to me. _Julius Cæsar_, I., 2
Some enigma, some riddle. _Love’s Labour’s Lost_, III., 1
A bottomless sea of speculation
NECESSARILY
Needfully Essentially
The pressure of absolute necessity
I am under the imperative necessity of——
It is absolutely essential that——
It must needs be that——
Infinitely more so now
The imperative necessity of——
The need is urgent that——
Of all the essential cogs in the world’s great machine the——
Of extreme importance
Of vital necessity
Conditions will make it imperative that——
It is of prime importance to——
The first and most important requisite of——
Put to it
The supreme need of the hour is——
It is time for him to come to the scratch and——
All important factors in the case
As much as plants need sunshine
Indispensably necessary
The imperative needs of——
In the vigorous school of necessity
OPPORTUNE
Timely Seasonable
Every door is open
Virgin soil
A work in which every man may bear a share
Seize with avidity this opportunity to——
The time seems ripe to——