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BRITANNICUS UNDERGOES A NEW EXPERIENCE 201
a brief pause, O ' that John of Bethsaida would tell us first
of that Resurrection whereof he is one of the
'
appointed
witnesses !
John rose, and gave them the narrative which long years
after he embodied in his Gospel.
He told them of the startling words of Mary of Magdala on
that first glad Easter morning and how he himself and Peter
;
ran together to the empty tomb, ere yet they knew the Scripture
that He must rise again from the dead.
He told them of the vision of angels which appeared in
the tomb to Mary, and how Jesus had spoken to her in the
garden.
He told of the appearance to the Ten, and the words of
peace and again, on the next Sunday, to the Eleven, when He
;
convinced the doubting Thomas, and bade him to be not faithless,
but believing.
He told them of the appearance on the shore of the misty
silver sea, and of His last behest to Simon Peter ;
and he corrected
the false impression as to what had been said concerning
himself, which had not been, as had been mistakenly reported,
that he should not die, but '
If I will that he tarry till I come,
'
what is that to thee ?
And as he spoke these words, in a voice which rose like a
divine melody, the attention grew more and more rapt, and, as
he ended, the awful, penetrating, thrilling sound of the tongue
began to be heard. But John checked it by a gentle lifting of
'
his hand, and Linus said, Let the spirits of the prophets be
subject to the prophets. Let us rather hear the witness of the
Lord.'
Then Hernias, slave of Pedauius Secundus, the City Praetor,
'
rose, and asked, What meant the Lord by those words, " that
he tarry till I come " ? When should be the day of His
'
coming ?
'
That question we also asked,' said John, ' before His death ;
and though He spake of signs of the times, like the redness
aud lowering of the sky, yet He added to " us, Of that day
and that hour knoweth no man no, not even the angels in
heaven, nor the Son, but the Father." '
'
And are there no signs of the time now ?
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There are many,' he answered, ' by which we may know
I have walked
that the coming of the Lord is even at the door.
'
asked Linus.