JESUS RISEN.

In our last lesson we learned about the cruel death
of Jesus, on the cross. In this picture we see an angel
sitting by the empty tomb of Joseph, from which Jesus had
just gone forth. This tomb was not his, for he had no spot
of earth he could call hisown.. When his friends took him
down from the cross, they laid him in Joseph’s new tomb,
for Joseph loved Jesus, and wanted him to be buried there.

His disciples felt very bad when they saw that Jesus
was dead. He had fed them when hungry; healed them
when sick; comforted them in sorrow; but now they
thought they should:see him no more. Were they right
about this children? No; for Jesus had said that he
should rise again, after three days.

When the three days had passed, sure enough, a
strong angel came down from heaven and rolled away the
stone from the door of the sepulchre, and Jesus, the
mighty conqueror, came forth. The angel stayed there, as
we see him, to tell any one who might come to the tomb
_ that Jesus had risen.

Those two women, we see coming toward the angel,
are the two Mary’s, who went early to the sepulchre and -
found not their Lord, but found an angel, “ whose coun-
tenance was like lightning; and whose raiment was white