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 passing through the gate of the city, the merciful and compassionate meets her, and says unto her, weep not. Her situation was not unknown to him. He knew the tender feelings of her heart, with what pious care she had reared her son, and what pleasing prospects she entertained of his protection and friendship in the vale of life. We are told, had compassion upon her, and said unto her, Weep not. In this her mournful situation such an address from a stranger, when her grief was at the height, and her dead son borne before her eyes to his grave, might appear impertinent, and as an insult offered to her sorrow. And in any other person, but our, who was alone possest of power to turn her mourning into joy, it would have been so in the extreme. "And came and touched the bier, and they that bare it stood still; and He, at whose Almighty that the worlds and the universe were brought into exiſtence, said, Young Man, I say unto thee, Arise." And no sooner does the commanding word issue from his blessed lips, than he that was dead, burst the bars of death, sat up, and began to speak. And he delivered him to his