150 ¥ESUS MASTER OF DEATH.

 

I am sure you have read many times in the Bible
about Lazarus, who was raised from the dead. He was a
very dear friend of the Savior, and so was Mary and
Martha, his sisters. The sisters felt that if Jesus had
only been there, when their brother was sick, he could have
healed him; but they had not thought that Jesus could
- bring him back to life. | |

When Jesus came to see them, Martha said to him, .
“Lord, if thou hadst been here my brother had not died.”
Jesus saith unto her, “Thy brother shall rise again.”
They all went full of sorrow to the grave, where Lazarus
was buried, but Jesus soon made them glad. He told
them to take away the stone; then “he cried with a loud
voice, Lazarus, come forth”; and though he had been
dead four days, he arose out of his grave. What joy!
The brother is brought back to life again. Don’t you
think that Mary and Martha must have thanked him over
and over again?

I want to tell you, dear children, that Jesus is doing
work much like this to-day.

The sinner is represented as being “ dead in trespasses

and sins,” and Jesus is raising just such dead men now.

That is, he lifts them out of their sins and gives them a
new life, so that they will always love the right, and want
to do it.