Early graves a book for the bereaved Author:John Ross Macduff Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. THE EARLY DEATH OF AN ONLY DAUGHTER. " AND, BEHOLD, THERE CAME A MAX NAMED JAIRUS, AND US WAS A RULER OF THE SYNAGOGUE ; AND HE FELL DOWN AT JESUS FEE... more »T, AND BESOUGHT HIM THAT HE WOULD COME INTO HIS HOUSE : FOR HE HAD ONE ONLY DAUGHTER, ABOUT TWELVE YEARS OF AGE, AND SHE LAY A-DYINO. . . . WHILE HE YET SPAKE, THERE COMETH ONE FROM THE RULER OF THE SYNAGOGUE'S HOUSE, SAYING TO HIM, THY DAUGHTEa IS DEAD ; TROUBLE NOT THE MASTER. BUT WHEN JESUS HEARD IT, HE ANSWERED HIM, SAYING, FEAR NOT : BELIEVE ONLY, AND SHE SHALL BB MADE WHOLE. AND WHEN HE CAME INTO THE HOUSE, HE SUFFERED NO MAN TO GO IN, SAVE PETER, AND JAMES, AND JOHN, AND THK FATHER AND THE MOTHER OF THE MAIDEN. AND ALL WEPT AND BEWAILED HER : BUT HE SAID, WEEP NOT ; SHE IS NOT DEAD, BDT SLEEPETH. AND THEY LAUGHED HIM TO SCORN, KNOWING THAT SHE WAS DEAD. AND HE PUT THEM ALL OUT, AND TOOK HER BY THE HAND, AND CALLED, SAYING, MAID, ARISE. AND HER SPIRIT CAMH AGAIN, AND SHE AROSE STRAIGHTWAY : AND HE COMMANDED TO GIVE HER MEAT. AND HER PARENTS WEUE ASTONISHED : BUT HE CHARGED THEM THAT THEY SHOULD TELL NO MAN WHAT WAS DONE.—LUKE viii. 41, 42, 49 56. THE EARLY DEATH OF AN ONLY DAUGHTER. N ONLY DAUGHTER!—the most sacred and hallowed link that can bind heart to heart— the theme of poetry's tenderest epics, lyrics, elegies:—Can such be included in the record of early departures,—the calendar of " early graves ? " Alas ! too true, as is the experience of ten thousand sorrowing parents. It is so in the touching incident we are now to consider. Death is here described as entering another home of the Gospel era, and evoking the wail of desolated mourners. But, the Prince and Lord of Life draws near. He storms the Invader in his own citadel, compels him to relinquish his prey ; and to every bosom in all time thus rud...« less