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Did they not, however, feel assured that Jesus would manifest His love to them in the way which seemed to them the best way, nay, the one way only by which they could receive comfort, and be relieved from their anxiety and sorrow, and that was by delivering Lazarus from sickness and death?
Keeping to the outer edge of the animated throng, Zador soon came to a place from which, by standing on the base of a pillar he could see over the heads of the people. "Yea," he said to his companion, "it is Lazarus and his sister as I thought. And at his heels is the other sister with her man. Now I will get me on the track of my anklet. Watch thou my standing place while I call a guard."
Some glasses of the higher windows, brought from Saint-Martin-sur-Renelle, represent the passion of our Lord. In the choir, in the chapel to the left, Tobit burying the dead, above we see the resurrection of Lazarus; in the same window Job on the dunghill; and underneath, the Lord's supper.
And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
England might be ready enough to act the part of Dives, but Jefferson was not the statesman to put America in the attitude of Lazarus, begging, and showing sores. But we have to note yet another change in Jefferson's modes of work and warfare. As he wrought and fought in this second period, which, for easy reference, we call the building period, he was forced into new methods.
Dives and Lazarus may be precisely alike. The temper condemned here is 'self-consuming care, the opposite of trust. Its misery is forcibly expressed by the original meaning of the Greek word, which implies being torn in pieces, and thus paints the distraction and self-inflicted harrassment which are the lot of the anxious mind.
But some daring people there were, who wanted to test their strength, and Lazarus obeyed their imprudent summons. Kept busy by state affairs, the emperor constantly delayed the reception, and seven days did he who had risen from the dead go about visiting others. And Lazarus came to a cheerful Epicurean, and the host met him with laughter on his lips: "Drink, Lazarus, drink!" shouted he.
"I have served him ever since he was born," said Lazarus. "He's he's yours," said The Rat, still thinking deeply. "I am his," was Lazarus's stern answer. "I am his and the young Master's." "That's it," The Rat said. Then a squeak of a half-laugh broke from him. "I've never been anybody's," he added. His sharp eyes caught a passing look on Lazarus's face. Such a queer, disturbed, sudden look.
Well, possibly some of us are like Nicodemus there is no power because of timidity, cowardice, fear of what they will think, or say. Possibly some of us are in the same condition spiritually that Lazarus was in physically. We are tied up tight, hands and feet and face. Some sin, some compromise, some hushing of that inner voice, something wrong. Some little thing, you may say.
But that is not the way either ye must walk the hospitals ye must cure Lazarus ye must cut and carve on a departed subject, to show your skill. 'I am sure, I replied, 'I will undertake the cause of any poor man with pleasure, and bestow as much pains upon it as if it were a duke's; but for the next two or three days'
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