Luke 8:49-56 While he yet spoke, there comes one from the ruler of the synagogue's house, saying to him, Your daughter is dead… — Let me speak of the spirit and work of Christ in the home of a sick child. 1. By the death of little children the unity of home life is broken up. 2. There is something which we call unnatural in this manner of death. 3. The bereavement of children is a bereavement that so often never seems to be fully repaired till the bereavement shall be over, and the separated have met again face to face. 4. There is for us, however, over their tiny graves, a glorious "nevertheless." We can enter into the joy of the word of the Lord that assures us that our loved children, numbered among the dead, are yet not dead, but only sleeping. (1) It is a great blessing which God confers on a home when its inmates can say: "Part of our family is in heaven."(2) Those who form this part so perfectly blessed are for ever safe from all moral dangers and ills. (3) And this because they are ever pure, without fault before the throne of God. (T. Gasquoine, B. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: While he yet spake, there cometh one from the ruler of the synagogue's house, saying to him, Thy daughter is dead; trouble not the Master. |
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