{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_36614/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_36614","id":"gutenberg_36614","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36614","summary":null,"tags":["Bible stories, English -- Gospels -- Juvenile literature","Category: Children & Young Adult Reading","Category: Religion/Spirituality","Jesus Christ -- Miracles -- Juvenile literature"],"text":"</pre>\n\n\n\nProduced by Larry B. Harrison, Archives and Special\nCollections, University Libraries, Ball State University\nand the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at\nhttp://www.pgdp.net\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n  No. 23.\n\n  THE CHILD WHO DIED\n  AND LIVED AGAIN.\n\n  BY THE AUTHOR OF \"PEEP OF DAY.\"\n\n  LONDON:\n  JOHN HATCHARD AND SON.\n  1848.\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\nTHE CHILD WHO DIED AND\n\nLIVED AGAIN.\n\n\n\n\nDid you ever see a person who was dead? Perhaps you have seen one of\nyour own brothers or sisters lying on a death-bed. What a change\ntakes place when we die! No more breath comes out of the mouth, no\ncolour is seen on the cheeks; the eye can look at us no longer, nor\nthe tongue speak to us; the body soon grows cold and stiff; it has no\nmore feeling than the ground on which we tread. And why? Because the\nsoul is gone out of the body. While the soul or spirit is in us we are\nalive, but when it is gone out then we are dead. The soul can never\ndie, but the body is only made of dust, and it soon crumbles away and\nbecomes dust again.\n\nNo one can make a dead person alive again. Yet once there was a man in\nthis world who made dead people alive. Who was that man? He was called\nJesus; he was not only a man, he was God too; he was the Son of God.\nMost people would not believe that he was the Son of God, though he\nsaid he was. Yet we are sure he said true, for if he had been a wicked\nman he could not have made dead people alive again. God his Father was\nwith him, and this was the reason he did such wonderful things.\n\nOne day a rich man came to Jesus, and fell down at his feet, and begged\nhim to come to his house. He said, \"My little daughter is dying.\" He was\nvery unhappy, he loved his little girl very much, and she was his only\nchild. His name was Jairus, but I do not know the name of his little\ngirl. I do know her age, she was twelve years old. The father thought\nthat if Jesus only put his hands upon her he could make her well.\n\nThe Son of God was very kind to people in trouble. He went with the\nfather, and a great crowd followed him. As he went along the road, he\nwas pressed on every side by those who wanted to see him and to hear\nwhat he said.\n\nBefore he reached the sick man's house, some people came and said to\nthe father, \"Your daughter is dead.\" They told him it was now of no\nuse for Jesus to come. They little knew what he could do; but Jesus\nsaid to the father, \"Do not be afraid, she shall be made well.\"\n\nWhen he came to the house, he only allowed three of his friends to\ncome in with him. Their names were Peter, James, and John. There was a\ngreat noise and bustle in the house; there were men playing music, and\npeople weeping and crying out with loud voices because the girl was\ndead. When Jesus came into the room where she was lying, he said to\nthese people, \"Why do you make this noise? The girl is not dead, she\nonly sleeps.\" Then they began to laugh at him, for they knew the child\nwas dead. Why did Jesus say she slept? Because she was soon to be made\nalive. Her death was like sleep.\n\nJesus would not let the people who mocked, stay in the room, but he\nlet the girl's father and mother be there, and his own three friends.\nThere were just these five in the room with him when he went to the\nbed and took hold of the girl's hand and said, \"Girl, I say unto thee,\narise.\" Immediately her spirit (or her soul) came again into her body.\nThen she was alive. She was now quite well; she was not weak now, as\nshe had been; she got up out of her bed and walked about. Then Jesus\ndesired that something might be given her to eat. Her parents were\nvery much surprised. They had been afraid that Jesus would not be\nable to make her alive. They did not know he could do everything. He\nmade all our bodies and gave us souls, and one day he will call all\nthe dead people out of their graves.\n\nI wonder whether that young girl loved Jesus. She was old enough to\nunderstand what he said. At twelve years old children can understand\nalmost as well as men and women can; they learn more quickly, and\nremember better. Though they love play still, they have a great deal\nof sense. Some children at twelve years old begin to take great pains\nwith their learning; then they get on very fast. Some begin to be very\nuseful; they can do more now than take care of the baby or run upon\nerrands, and often they get places as servants. If they are steady,\nand tell no lies, they are trusted and get on well in the world.\n\nSome children at twelve years old begin to think about their souls and\nto say, \"What would become of me if I were to die?\" They go and hear\nsermons, and they can understand them. They look in the Bible, and\nthey can understand a great deal which they read. Then some begin to\npray and to say, \"Merciful God, give me thy Holy Spirit, for the sake\nof Jesus Christ.\"\n\nBut there are some who at twelve years old will mind their parents no\nlonger. They say, \"We are not little babies now, we will do as we\nplease.\" They forget all the kindness their parents have shown them\nfor twelve years, and they forget the words that God has spoken,\n\"Honour thy father and thy mother.\"\n\nYou can read the history of the daughter of Jairus in your Bible in\nMark v. verses 23, 24, and 35 to end; Luke viii. 41, 42, and 49 to end.\n\n\n\n\nTHE DYING CHILD.\n\n\n    Why do you weep?\n      I am falling asleep,\n    And Jesus my Shepherd,\n      Is watching his sheep;\n    His arm is beneath me,\n      His eye is above;\n    His Spirit within me\n      Says, \"Rest in my love:\n    With blood I have bought thee,\n      And wash'd thee from sin;\n    With care I have brought thee\n      My fold to be in;\n    Refresh'd by still waters,\n      In green pastures fed,\n    Thy day has gone by--\n      I am making thy bed.\"\n\n  _Extract in \"The Twin Brothers.\"_\n\n\n  THE END.\n\n\n  Macintosh, Printer, Great New-street, London.\n\n\n\n\nPRAYER.\n\n\n    O Father in Heaven,\n    Thou hast made all things;\n    The sun, moon, and stars, the land and sea.\n    Thou hast made me.\n    Thou hast taken care of me.\n    I thank Thee for all thy kindness.\n\n    Great God, Thou art in every place;\n    Thou seest in the dark,\n    As well as in the light;\n    Thou knowest all the naughty things\n    That I have done, and said, and thought.\n\n    O Merciful Lord, pardon my sins,\n    Because Jesus Christ, thy dear Son,\n    Died upon the cross for sinners.\n    Give me thy Holy Spirit,\n    That I may love Thee, and obey thy laws.\n    Keep me from minding Satan,\n    And save me from going to hell:\n    And whenever I die,\n    O take my soul to Heaven.\n\n    When Jesus comes with clouds,\n    And with the holy angels,\n    May I be glad to see Him.\n    May my dear parents, and brothers, and sisters,\n    Be happy with Thee for ever and ever.\n    May all people love Thee,\n    And speak of thy goodness.\n    Hear me for Christ's sake. Amen.","title":"The Child Who Died and Lived Again","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":1292}