[I.N.R.I. by Peter Rosegger]@TWC D-Link bookI.N.R.I. CHAPTER XV 8/8
If, as you say, I have raised your child from the dead, what thanks do you owe Me? Do you recognise what he who calls back a creature from happiness to misery does? "You said yourself, Master, that the child was too young to gain heaven yet." "She has not gained it; she possessed it in her innocent heart.
She will become a maiden, and a wife, and an old woman.
She will lose heaven and seek it in agony.
It will be well for her if then she comes to the Saviour and begs: 'My soul is dead within me, Lord; wake it to eternal life.' But if she comes not--then it would be better that she had not waked to-day." The mother said in all humility: "Whatsoever Thou doest, Master, that is surely right." He went to the table where the child was comfortably eating her food, laid His hand on her head, and said: "You have come to earth from heaven, now give up earth for heaven; what is earned is greater that what is given." So the wife of Rabbi Jairus heard as Jesus went out of the door. They remained His adherents until near the days of the persecution..
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