suffering from a flux of blood for twelve years, and had spent her all on doctors, said to herself: "If I shall touch but his garments I shall be whole." Animated with this faith, she makes her way through the crowd, she touches the hem of our Lord's garment, and is immediately cured. Soon after Jairus received the news that his daughter had just died. Our Lord looked on him with eyes of compassion, and said: "Fear not, only believe" He entered the house of the dead girl with only Peter, and James, and John, and the father and mother of the child. And He said: " The child is not dead but sleepeth." But the bystanders mocked Him, for they knew well she was dead. Jesus, taking her hand, exclaimed : Damsel, I say to thee, arise." And He told them to tell no one, but to get Him something to eat, to their joyful astonishment.

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Thence He returned to His own country, and on the way two blind men cried out with a loud voice: Have pity on us, Son of David." In vain did He tell them

to keep their cure secret, for in their joy they published it in all directions. And about the same time He freed one possessed by the devil. On His return to Nazareth, He again began to preach His heavenly doctrine to His countrymen, who could not believe their ears, and again asked one another: "Is not this the carpenter, the Son of Mary, the brother of James and Jude. ..?" And then He abandoned His native country, never more to return to preach in it, thus confirming what He had already said to them, that a prophet is little honoured in his own country, and on account of their incredulity, which He had reprehended on a former occasion, He wrought not a miracle among them.