BOYS OF THE BIBLE. 309

hope will be chanted wherever sorrowing souls stand weeping
by open graves.

Thus the name of Lazarus is linked forever with
Christ’s largest promise of life and immortality by faith in
him.

It is said that Lazarus lived for thirty years after his
resurrection from the dead. But he passes suddenly from the
gospel history, and no word is spoken of his strange experi-
ence in that brief sojourn in the Silent Land.

Perhaps it is more a pardonable curiosity than anything
beside that prompts the desire, but who would not gladly
learn, if it were possible, what strange emotions possessed
the mind and heart of the brother of Bethany during those
four memorable days? Perhaps the whole subject seemed to
him too sacred to be spoken of. Or if he spoke of these
things in the sacred circle of Bethany, he deemed it best not
to noise the matter abroad.

When Lazarus left his charnel-house
And home to Mary’s house returned,

Was this demanded—if he yearned
To hear her weeping by his grave?

“Where wert thou, brother, those four days?”
There lives no record of reply,
Which telling what it is to die
Had surely added praise to praise.

From every house the neighbors met,
The streets were filled with joyful sound,
A solemn gladness even crowned

The purple brows of Olivet.

Behold a man raised up by Christ!
The rest remaineth unrevealed;
He told it not; or something sealed

The lips of the Evangelist.”