The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1890, Page 14

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14 The Lutheran Pioneer.
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The Raising of Jairus’ Daughter. |rection are the forerunners of that grand mir-| with him, and endeavored to induce him to
jacle, when His shout shall ring through the|return. He refused, and when the Jaw was
In onr picture we behold Christ in the house | silence of the tomb, and the dead shall rise inj invoked he defended his conduct in court. He
of Jairus, a ruler of the Jews. Jairus had come|immortal bodies. And to all His people who| testified that his wife was a wicked woman,
to Jesus saying, Lord, my daughter is even/| died believing in Him, it will indeed be ‘‘beau-| with whom he could not live, and that by
now dead: but come and lay thy hand upon tiful’? when they hear their Saviour’s voice, | word and example she corrupted her children.
her, and she shall live. And when Jesus came| Arise! They will rize and in glorious bodies|‘‘Don't believe him, judge,” said the wife;
into the ruler’s house, and saw the minstrels| meet their Saviour with all the saints. ‘‘So|‘‘I have done my best with my home and the
and the people making a noise, He said untojshall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore| children, and I have reared them as they
them: Give place; for the maid is not dead, | comfort one another with these words.’’ Death | should be.’’
but sleepeth. And they laughed Him toscorn.| has no power over him who believes in the} The man still persisted, and between so much
But when the people were put forth, He went/ risen Saviour. He enters the grave as a quiet | cross-swearing the judge was puzzled. At last
in, and took the damsel by the hand, and said | resting place from the strife and toil of earth, | he asked if the children were in court. A little
unto her, Talitha- girl, three years old,
cumi; which is, being came forward, and the

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interpreted, Damsel, XX judge questioned her.
(1say unto thee) arise. NS = One or two questions
And straightway the [CG XS = = —$——S ; —= were answered intel-
SSS =\ JS I STY p ligently, and then the
RS } . i judge said, ‘‘Could

you say your prayers?”
Without a moment's

damsel arose, and
walked. And they ~
were astonished with
a great astonishment.

Thus Christ mani-
fested His divine ~
power and proved
Himself to be the
great Conqueror of
death.

Of this beautiful
story we were re-
minded when we re-
cently read the fol-

- lowing of little Willy.
Little Willy was taken
once to a funeral of
one of his young com-
panions. Hehadnever -
seen a dead body be-

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hesitation, the little
girl knelt in the court-
room, closed her eyes,
clasped her hands, and
in reverential words
began: ‘‘Our Father
who art in heaven.”
Before she reached
the end of the prayer,
tears stood in the eyes
of the judge, and the
deep silence of the
court-room was bro-
ken by sobs from more
than one rough fellow,
to whom the words
recalled childhood’s

fore. He looked long alt ge = :
and earnestly on the pail ry AWW I mn ll \ <b) \ “] memories. There was
. _ Ddeautiful form of his at cn RAINE i no doubt in the mind
little friend, as it lay, : 4 of any one as to the

like a piece of wax-
work or of polished
marble, in the dark
" coffin with flowers all
over it. He did not
go to the graveyard.
His mother took him

justice in the case,
when the girl added
to the Lord’s Prayer
an earnest petition for
her father, which she —
had so evidently been
in the habit of putting

home and let him stand at the window where|and his Christian friends can gather around it|up, night and morning, during his shameful ab-

he could see the funeral procession of his play-| to lift the hymn of praise,
mate go by. He looked at it with fixed atten- ‘Thou hast been here, Lord Jesus!
tion for a while; then he turned to his mother, But Thou art here no more;
and his face all brightened up with gladness, The terror and the darkness,
as he said: Z The night of death, are o’er.
“Oh, mamma! how beautiful it will be when ae PIE RGH OVE
7 Sear y triumphs now we sing;
Jesus says—‘ Baby, arise. : O Grave, where is thy victory?
The little fellow was thinking, no doubt, of O Death, where {s thy sting?”
what he had heard about Jesus standing in
the house of Jairus and saying to the ruler's
daughter: Dameel, arise! “And a little Child shall lead them.” Some clocks do not strike. You must look
The dear child was making the right use of . at them if-you would know the time. Some
what the Bible teaches us about Jesus and the| A little child’s prayer furnished decisive evi-|men do not talk their Chriatianity; you must
resurrection. In the morning of the resurrec-} dence in a suit in a court at Fresno, Cal., a|look at their lives if you would know what the
tion Jesus will call all the dead from their} whileago. A man had deserted his wife and his| Gospel can do. Buta clock need not be incor-
_ graves. The miracle which He performed in} two children, and had been found in Fresno. | rect because it strikes; a man need not be in-
_ airus’ house and the miracle of His own resur-| His wife and her brother had an interview | consistent because he speaks as well as acts.

sence from his family. The judge would hear
no more evidence, and in a voice broken with
emotion, he gave his decision against the father.
The mother could have had no idea, when she
so trained her child, that the result would be
so valuable to her in the crisis of her life, but
she did her duty, and the child enabled her
‘to answer him that reproached her.’’ (Prov.
27, 11.)

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