“Does Paul tell there of every time that the risen Saviour was seen and recognized by those who had known him before his death?” asked Mr. Dinsmore.
“Oh no indeed, papa! Mary Magdalen saw him in the garden just after he had risen, and then— But, Annis, don’t you want to tell of the others?”
Annis looked her thanks, and added, “The two who were walking into the country; the disciples met together in the upper room when Thomas wasn’t with them, and afterward when he was with them; Peter and John and some of the others when they were out in a boat fishing.”
Annis paused, and Mildred proposed that each passage bearing on the subject should be sought out and read aloud, all taking turns.
“Not a link wanting in the chain of evidence,” remarked Mr. Dinsmore, as they finished with these words from the account of the martyrdom of Stephen: “‘But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up steadfastly into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, and said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God,’—we have just read, ‘that he died, was buried, rose from the grave, ascended into heaven and there remains at God’s right hand.’”
“Where he ever liveth to make intercession for us,” added Rose softly, a glad light in her sweet blue eyes.
Then Mildred read aloud from her open Bible, “‘seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.’”
CHAPTER XIII.
“Wake, slumberer! morning’s golden hours
Are speeding fast away;