people that all he said was true. He could make all dead people alive now, but he lets them lie in their graves till the day when he will come again. "Then all that are in the graves shall hear his voice and shall come forth." What a day that will be! We often see a churchyard filled with graves; there are stones over some graves, but the green grass grows over many a coffin. The ground is full of dead people. What a sight it will be when all these dead people come up out of their graves! They will see Jesus seated upon a throne of glory, with all his bright angels round him. Then Jesus will judge the dead. He will say whether they shall go to heaven or to hell. Whom will he take to heaven? Those who believe that he died upon the cross to save them; those who love him, and serve him, and wish to see his face. Whom will he cast into hell? Those who forget him, and do not care for him. Pray to Jesus to take you to heaven when you die. Some persons will be alive when Jesus comes again. He will judge them as well as the dead. If they love him, they shall have bright and glorious bodies like the body of Jesus. And the dead people, too, shall have new bodies. The young man whom Jesus made alive again had his old body still, and at last he died again; but those who are made alive at the last day, shall never die any more. The wicked shall be unhappy forever, and that is the worst sort of dying. It is called the second death. May you, my dear child, never feel what it is! You may read the history of the widow's son in Luke 7: 11-16 Here we suffer grief and pain, All who love the Lord below, When we meet to part no more. Holy children will be there, Who have sought the Lord by prayer, From every Sunday-school. Oh, that will be joyful! When we meet to part no more. Teachers, too, shall meet above, Oh, that will be joyful! When we meet to part no more. Oh, how happy we shall be ! Oh, that will be joyful! There we all shall sing with joy, In praising Christ the Lord. When we meet to part no more. THE WOMAN WHO WASHED THE SAVIOUR'S FEET. WHEN the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, lived in this world, some people hated him, and some people loved him. Do you think you should have loved him? He was very kind, and gentle, and meek. You think you should have loved him. But I must tell you something else about him—he hates sin; he has seen all the naughty things you have done. Should you love him? I will tell you the reason why some people loved him, and why some people did not. It is this: people who were sorry for their sins. loved him; people who were not sorry, did not. There was a woman who had committed a great many sins. People thought her very bad. One day, when Jesus was sitting at dinner in a rich man's house, she went in, and she came behind him, and she stood there.crying. What made her cry? It was her sins; she was sorry that she had often been very wicked. Jesus was reclining at dinner, for it is the custom in some hot countries to lie down when you eat. He was not lying down quite flat; he sat up, resting on his elbow, but his feet upon the sofa. The poor woman began to wash his feet-not with water, not in a basin-but with her tears. And how did she wipe them? With her own long hair. Then she kissed his feet, and poured sweet ointment on them. The man who had invited Jesus to dine with him was called Simon; he was a proud man; he was angry when he saw the poor woman showing so much love to the Lord, and he thought in his heart, "If Jesus were really so wise as people think, he would know what sort of a woman that is, and he would not let her touch him." Did Jesus know what sort of a woman she was? Oh, yes; he knew all the bad things she had ever done, and he had forgiven her-quite forgiven her. Jesus saw into the woman's heart; he saw that she loved him for having forgiven her. He saw into the heart of the proud Simon; he knew all he was thinking about, so he asked him a question. First he told him a little history. He said, there were two men who owed some money; one owed a great deal, the other a very little. A kind man to whom they owed the money, said to both the men, "You need not pay me. "Which would love the kind man the best; the man who owed much, or the man who owed little?" 99 |