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JEWESS RESTORED TO LIFE--MARK 5:21-24, 35-43.--AUGUST 18.--Text: "And He took the damsel by the hand and said unto her,Talitha cumi, which is, being interpreted, Damsel, I sayunto thee, arise."--Vs. 41.WHEN JESUS and the Apostles returned tothe vicinity of Capernaum, the people wereon the lookout for them, especially Jairus,one of the rulers of the synagogue. Hecame and fell at Jesus' feet in great distress.He besought Him to come and healhis little daughter who lay at the point ofdeath. As they went to the house of Jairusthe multitude followed and thronged anddelayed the procession. Meantime a messengerarrived from Jairus' house, telling that the childwas dead. But Jesus said to the bereaved father, "Be notafraid, only believe."The multitude was left, and only three of the Apostles,Peter, James and John, went on with Jesus and Jairus.When they arrived they beheld a great tumult connectedwith the customary weeping and wailing. Jesus astonishedthe mourners by telling them not to weep, that thechild was not dead, but asleep. What did He mean? Didthe Great Teacher prevaricate? He spoke in the samemanner in respect to His friend Lazarus, saying, "Lazarussleepeth," and then later He explained that he wasdead. How shall we understand these words? Whatwere the facts? What was the truth in the case?"ALL LIVE UNTO HIM"The key to the matter is given us in our Lord's ownwords to the Sadducees, a class who denied that therewould be any resurrection of the dead or any future life.The Sadducees asked Jesus a question about a woman whohad had seven husbands, and who died after them all.They thought to make the teachings of Jesus respectingthe resurrection of the dead look ridiculous by this question,but our Lord answered, "You do err, not understandingthe Scriptures, nor the power of God."Jesus proceeded to give them a proof that the dead arenot really dead in the sense that the brute beasts are dead,because God in His Plan had made an arrangement for theresurrection of humanity from the death state, whereasHe has made no arrangement for the resurrection of thebrute beasts. The provision for man's resurrection wasthat God would provide a Redeemer to satisfy the claimsof Divine Justice against Adam and all his race, and whothus would become the Great Deliverer, and, establishingHis Messianic Kingdom, would release all mankind fromthe power of death.From this standpoint, God's standpoint, no human being