Word: lazarus
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...Phelps Ward's last novel "Come Forth," is a romantic story treated in an unusual way. The tale carries one to Jerusalem in the days of Lazarus, the skilled master-builder, who, while at work on the house of Annas, the exhigh priest, falls in love with Zahara, Annas' beautiful daughter. By a miracle Christ aids Lazarus in saving Zahara from death by drowning which bridges over the social gulf between them. All is well except that Lazarus refuses to deny the Nasarene, and for their devotion Christ finally brings about the marriage. It is a story much more...
...Phillips Brooks preached last evening in Appleton Chapel on the passage in Saint John 38, 11, where Jesus stands before the tomb of Lazarus in sorrow at the grief of Mary and Martha and the friends of their dead brother. In all the history of Jesus' life we find that he was by nature of a joyous disposition which made his moments of deep sorrow, like the one in the text, all the more intense. The mingling of joy and pain in his life is what all men should expect to find in their own lives and those of their...