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The turnkey beside me leant with his back against the spikes. He was talking to the man who had called us in. "Lazarus Cohen, West Indian merchant.... Lord, well, I'd challenge...." The other man said, "S sh." "His old dad give me five shiners to put him up to a thing if I could," the turnkey said again.
Even when Lazarus died at Bethany, he said to his followers, "I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, to the intent that ye might believe;" his absence led to the resurrection of Lazarus, and that event, he foresaw, would confirm their faith.
Here some years ago a French explorer discovered on the base the remains of an ancient chapel This seems to point with probability to a valid tradition of the site of the house of Martha, Mary, and Lazarus. And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them: and his disciples rebuked those that brought them.
One with eyes opening into both worlds could hardly weep over any law of the Father of Lights! I think it was the impossibility of getting them comforted over this thing death, which looked to him so different from what they thought it, that made the fearless weep, and give them in Lazarus a foretaste of his own resurrection. The major alone did not weep.
"A Jew of the name of Lazarus, residing in little Orange Street, at the back of the Point, your Majesty!" "Do you know of any of the names of the conspirators?" "I do not, your Majesty, except a woman, who is very active, one Moggy Salisbury her husband not a month back, was the boatswain of the cutter, but by some interest or another, he has obtained his discharge."
So Jesus said to them plainly, "Lazarus is dead, and for your sakes I am glad that I was not there, so that you may learn to believe. But let us go to him." When Jesus came he found that Lazarus had been in the tomb four days. Now Bethany was only about two miles from Jerusalem, and many of the Jews had come to comfort Mary and Martha about their brother.
Lazarus has come, who has so often welcomed the Lord to his home in Bethany; and with him are the sisters, of whom one has heard the Teacher say. "Whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die." The other is a young vineyard keeper from the neighboring village of Nain, whom Christ has restored. His word to Quintus is: "Last year I sickened with a fever and passed through the door of death.
He is better dressed than the others, has a kind word for everybody, and plays the tempter with but too great success. Black Matthias is dying in his miserable hut. His little boy and girl are playing around him, and his wife bids them be silent. "Let them shout," says Matthias; "but try and keep down Lazarus' temper."
The disciples thought that if he slept he was doing very well, until Jesus told them plainly, "Lazarus is dead." Then Thomas was full of sorrow and said, "Let us also go that we may die with him." Bethany was not far from Jerusalem, and when they reached the house of Martha, Lazarus had been dead four days, and was placed in a rock tomb.
And of the bread which God's bounty gives us, I pray, brother reader, we may not forget to set aside a part for those noble and silent poor, from whose innocent hands war has torn the means of labour. Enough! As I hope for beef at Christmas, I vow a note shall be sent to Saint Lazarus Union House, in which Mr Roundabout requests the honour of Mrs Twoshoes' company on Friday, 26th December.
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