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Updated: June 11, 2025
"To-day while in Jerusalem," said Martha, "did Anna and Debora and I seek to make our way into the Temple, yet we got no farther than Solomon's Porch for here a thick crowd did stay our steps. As we pressed around one of the great pillars, we heard a voice. 'It is thy friend Rabbi Jesus, said Anna.
Lo, he that hath been promised to restore again the glory of Israel is even now in the City of our God!" "Strange words thou speakest," said Huldah. "Thou dost not speak of Jesus of Nazareth?" Mary asked. "Even of him," the aged woman answered. "Art thou of his acquaintance?" Debora asked with interest. "Even more, for was not the mother of her who bare Jesus even the sister of my father?"
"Ay, ay, my girl!" continued the musician, "you can sing as well as the best of them, only you love your sinful old father so much that you have laid aside your ambitions, to follow him in his pilgrimage of expiation about this wicked globe. Ah, sir, if you but knew I will speak, Debora, for he is a gentleman and a lover of music! If you but knew our history, you would not be surprised at us.
In festive attire and carrying flowers, Anna and Debora entered the room, followed by Mary, gowned in clinging white caught high on her breast and falling away leaving her arms bare. Her hair had blown softly about her face. Her cheeks were like almond blossoms and a white veil caught around her head by a carved silver chaplet, fell over her shoulders. After the greeting, Huldah turned to Debora.
She had just turned from the window-seat to a watering jar of fresh palm leaves when from the open way leading into the garden, two maidens entered. "Martha," the first to enter said, laughing, "my guest Debora from Capernaum hath already arrived and I have brought her to see Mary's beds of lilies. Where is Mary? I saw her not in the garden," and she glanced about the room.
And when the slave was passing the place where Jesus stood, the Master moved near him and spoke a few words which again did bring such a light as was a miracle on so ugly a countenance. While he paused, the woman looked back and seeing who spoke with her slave, waited. Then did Anna and Debora and thy sister Martha follow them to the portico." "Thou hast forgotten something, Martha.
If then, in God's presence ye humble yourself, as in my heart I glorify God for that rest granted to His afflicted flock within England under you a weik instrument: so will I with tongue and pen justify your authority and regiment as the Holy Ghost hath justified the same in Debora that blessed mother in Israel.
And she was Herodias pirouetting for the price of John's head, and her brow was wreathed with serpents. Followed the convulsive curvings of the Nautch and the opaque splendours of stately Moorish slaves. Debora threw her watcher into a frenzy of fear. He crouched under a sky that roofed him in with its menacing blackness; the orbs of the girl were shot with crescent lightnings.
And Debora hath been saying a prophet hath arisen the like of which hath not been seen since Elijah went up in his fiery chariot." "A prophet! A prophet!" exclaimed Huldah, greatly interested. "Whence cometh he?" "From Galilee but the maidens are coming. Ask Debora."
"Methinks Lazarus did mention the name when Joseph of Arimathea was our guest. Dost thou remember, Mary?" "The name? Yea, I remember. But what of it? None said he was a prophet." "Listen," Debora said, leaning eagerly forward and half whispering: "Knowest thou not that Israel hath long been dispersed and scattered like sheep without a shepherd?
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