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 him aloud in the name of the Lord Jesus. When he looked up, there were tears on his face.

“Weepest thou, my friend?” said Sadoc. “Thou shalt shed tears no more after this hour. Tears are for us who live.”

“Till Jehovah shall wipe them away, must not tears fall even in heaven over the sorrows of our people?” said Paltiel. “I mourn for this child, and for others who will gather together at Bethany at sunrise, and will find me not. Strengthen them, Sadoc, for the tribulation to come.”

“Even as thou hast strengthened me, my friend Paltiel. But how appeareth death unto thee? Speak, that I may meditate hereafter on thy words.”

“Even as when we have spoken together in the night seasons; even as when we saw the Lord Jesus in the cloud and desired earnestly to depart also. Men of old had faith; but we have knowledge, and there is no place for fear. If thou wilt know more, ask of Lazarus.”

The people, who were enraged when joy kindled in his eye, fell upon him, and dragged him to the summit of Moriah, where was a