Part 259 (1/2)

Thy bountiful care what tongue can recite?

It breathes in the air, it s.h.i.+nes in the light, It streams from the hills, it descends to the plain, And sweetly distils in the dew and the rain.

Frail children of dust, and feeble as frail, In Thee do we trust, nor find Thee to fail; Thy mercies how tender! how firm to the end!

Our Maker, Defender, Redeemer, and Friend.

--_R. Grant_.

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How the Lord Jesus rose again from the dead, how He comforted His disciples, and how He sent them out to teach all men in His name.

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PERSONS OF THE STORY.

The LORD JESUS.

Mary Magdalene.

Peter.

”The Other Disciple.”

Cleopas.

Thomas.

Disciples, Angels.

PLACES OF THE STORY.

_The Garden of the Tomb_.

_The Village of Emmaus_.

_Jerusalem_.

_The Sea of Galilee_.

_The Mountain of the Ascension_.

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THE RESURRECTION

_How the Lord Jesus Rose from the Dead, and Appeared to Mary of Magdala_.

Now on the first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, while it was yet dark, unto the tomb, and seeth the stone taken away from the tomb. She runneth therefore, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, ”They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we know not where they have laid him.”

Peter therefore went forth, and the other disciple, and they went toward the tomb. And they ran both together: and the other disciple outran Peter, and came first to the tomb; and stooping and looking in, he seeth the linen cloths lying; yet entered he not in. Simon Peter therefore also cometh, following him, and entered into the tomb; and he beholdeth the linen cloths lying, and the napkin, that was about his head, not lying with the linen cloths, but rolled up in a place by itself. Then entered in therefore the other disciple also, which came first to the tomb, and he saw, and believed. For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead. So the disciples went away again unto their own home.

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But Mary was standing without at the tomb weeping: so, as she wept, she stooped and looked into the tomb; and she beholdeth two angels in white sitting, one at the head, and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain. And they say unto her, ”Woman, why weepest thou?” She saith unto them, ”Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him.”