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v. 39. Why this ado? “He stilled this tumult as he stilled the storm on the sea and the frenzy o f the demoniac.” Not dead but sleepeth. “To men she was dead; to God she was sleeping.”—Bede. “The Chris tian’s sleep is rest and bears in itself the pledge o f waking. Christ has changed the shadow feared o f man into beauty and in the strength o f His Word we can meet thè last enemy .with a welcome.” “ So brief her state o f death as to be more like a short sleep.”—J. F. and B. “Men often say ‘dead’ when God says ‘sleepeth’. We put the pe riod where God only puts a comma.”—Par ker. v. 40. Laughed to scorn. “The scorners had reason and common sense on their side. Jairus had the word o f the Son of God, which was enough.”—“ Scorn—a fit expression o f the world’s purblind incre dulity, its reliance -upon ordinary experi ence to disprove all possibilities o f the extraordinary and divine.”—Chadwick. Put them all out. “Christ put those out as unworthy to Be witnesses o f this miracle who were so noisy in their sorrow and so ignorant o f the things o f God.”—Henry. “ The little maid’s tender grace o f uncon scious maidenhood should not in the hour o f re-awakened'vitality be the center o f a gazing crowd.”—Expos. Bible. v. 41. I say unto thee arise. ' “ Such is the gospel call to those who are by nature dead in trespasses and sins and can no more rise from the dead by their own power than this child could.”-—Henry. “ So deep an impres sion did this make on Peter that he later repeated the very words to Mark and used By Mrs. H. H AVE you ever visited any one and felt that you were not wanted. Christ had a purpose in going to the Gadarenes. He went to minister (Review key-verse 10:45), but after helping only one man he was invited to leave. Christ, who never remains where he is not wanted, at once re-crossed
them with the change o f one letter (Tabi- tha for Talitha) in raising Dorcas.”—“Jesus never attended a funeral without breaking it up.”—Moody. v. 42. Arose and walked. “Jesus raised an only daughter; an only son, Luke 7:12; an only brother, John 11.”—Torrey. “ Physi cal death is separation o f body and spirit. It is the voice o f Jesus that has power to thus call back the departed spirit.”—“His word runs with power through all the regions o f the universe.”—“ Death closes its bony fingers upon the •Christian in vain. Nothing can resist the power and love which are enlisted on behalf o f all who put their trust in Jesus.”—“How strange to be thus awakened from the mysterious sleep and to gaze with a child’s fresh eyes into the loving eyes o f Jesus.”—Chadwick. “ Spiritual life appears by ones rising from the bed o f slothfulness and carelessness and WALK ING in Christ’s name and strength.” v. 43. Charged them. “ The servant of Jehovah despised ostentatiousness.”—Gaebe- lein. “He did not wish the public feeling regarding him to come too precipitately to a crisis.”—J. F. and B. Somethinjj to eat. “In the joy o f recovering their child, the parents might have neglected this.”—Plum mer. “ Life restored by miracles must be supported by ordinary means. Miracle has no place where human care will suffice.”—• Swete, “He thought upon small bodily needs. He gives the greatest; he will take care that we shall not lack the least.” “Christ raises, not only to life, but" to a good State o f health, with an appetite for food. 1 Peter 2 :2.”—Henry. J. Baldwin. the lake to Capernaum, where He found many eagerly awaiting His return. A Faith Admitted, vs. 21-24. Among them was a father greatly Wor ried for His twelve-year-old daughter. Jairus was an influential citizen and leader
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