in the resurrection, at the last day," said Martha. "I am the resurrection," said Jesus of Nazareth.

This Man demonstrated His declarations by prompt proofs. He set the bands of death at naught, saying, "No man taketh my life from me, I lay it down myself." He nullified the limitations of matter, as, looking up, He multiplied food, and walked upon the waters.

And whether this Man is speaking as an historic character, not yet having shown that in His own person He transcends death, or as a risen and triumphant glory, exhibiting to all beholders a body that cannot be absorbed into death, He is ever setting His seal upon the doctrine that had preceded Him, that all great transactions come into manifestation by reason of the right view of some steadfast seer.

When disasters of nations come, and earthquakes, with seas and waves roaring, "then look up." -- Luke 21. -- "And Jesus looking up, ... cried with a loud voice, Lazarus come forth," and the dead arose. -- St. John 11.

On the three circuits where He found mankind struggling, He met them with the reviving elixirs of the heavenly vision, and caused them to outdo themselves. He put into living text the lost old Persian declaration that, "with right glance and right speech a man superintendeth the animate and inanimate."

On the first circuit, He stretches out His hand and touches wine, bread and clay, and they obey His will to step out of their captivity to habit. The wines of the mystic islands rise through the Cana waters. Bread unfolds from the ether's mysterious opulence. Clay hides the sightless eyeballs till the eye divine sends healing light, and clay shows strange hidden fire as the child of Nain quickens to life.