sons and daughters by the hand, and say to them, " arise/' and bid them live not to themselves, but to Him that died for them and rose again. Have we a dead soul in our family ? Let us call on the Lord to come and quicken him. (Eph. ii. 1.) Let us send to Him message after message, and entreat Him to help. He that came to the succor of Jairus is still plenteous in mercy, and mighty in power.
Finally, let us see in this miracle a blessed pledge of what our Lord will do in the day of His second appear- ing. He will call His believing people from their graves. He will give them a better, more glorious, and more beautiful body, than they had in the days of their pilgrim- age. He will gather together His elect from north, and south, and east, and west, to part no more, and die no more. Believing parents shall once more see believing children. Believing husbands shall once more see be- lieving wives. Let us beware of sorrowing like those who have no hope, over friends who fall asleep in Christ. The youngest and loveliest believer can never die before the right time. Let us look forward. There is a glorious resurrection morning yet to come. " Them which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him." (1 Thess. iv. 14.) Those words shall one day receive a complete fulfilment, " I will ransom them from the power of the grave : I will redeem them from death : 0 death, I will be thy plagues : 0 grave, I will be thy destruction." (Hosea xiii. 14.) He that raised the daughter of Jairus still lives. When He gathers His flock around Him at the last day, not one lamb shall be found missing.