and turned the mourning into joy. He took by the hand the breathless body of the ruler's daughter, " and called saying, damsel arise." At once by that aU-powerfcd voice life was restored. ''Her spirit came again, and she arose straightway."
Let us take comfort in the thought that there is a limit to death's power. The king of terrors is very strong. How many generations he has mowed down and swept into the dust ! How many of the wise, and strong, and fair, he has swallowed down and snatched away in their prime ! How many victories he has won, and how often he has written, "vanity of vanities," on the pride of man ! Patriarchs, and kings, and prophets, and apostles, have all in turn been obliged to yield to him. They have all died. But thanks be unto God, there is One stronger than death. There is One who has said, "0 death I will be thy plagues : O grave I will be thy destruction ! " (Hosea xiii. 14.) That One is the Friend of sinners, Christ Jesus the Lord. He proved His power frequently, when He came to earth the first time, in the house of Jairus, by the tomb of Bethany, in the gate of Nain. He will prove it to all the world when He comes again. ''The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death." (1 Cor. xv. 26.) "The earth shall cast out the dead." (Isa. xxvi. 19.)
Let us leave the passage with the consoling thought, that the ihings which happened in Jairus' house are a type of good things to come. The hour cometh and will soon be here, when the voice of Christ shall call all His people frx)m their graves, and gather them together to part no more. Believing husbands shall once more see