Questioned by doubting Pharisees, He did to them relate The way by which he was relieved From his unhappy state. They said the man who gave him sight A sinner, sure must be Or He would not, on such a day, Make a blind man to see. Yet others said: "How can a man Who is a sinner do Such miracles?" The healed man said: "He is a prophet true." The Jews would not believe the man Was ever blind at all; And, to find out if it were so, They did his parents call, And asked them: "Is this man your son, Who without sight was born? How, then, doth he now see so well, Yet blind until this morn?" The parents said: "He is our son, And was born blind, we know; But know not how he gained his sight; Himself the truth must show." The Jews straightway recalled the man, And said: "Give God the praise, We know this man's a sinner, by His Sabbath-breaking ways." He answered them: "I know not if This man a sinner be; One thing I know, that whereas I Was blind, yet now I see. "We know that God regardeth not A sinful man's appeal; But to obedient worshippers He will Himself reveal. "Since first the world began can ye Such wondrous power find As that a mortal man could heal The eyes of one born blind? "And if this man were not of God, Nor down from heaven came, He could do nothing in my case-- All glory to His name!" And then they answered, wrathfully: "Thou, who believest thus, Wast altogether born in sin, And art thou teaching us?" They cast him out; which Jesus heard, And found him, when alone: "Believ'st thou on the Son of God?" He asked in gentle tone. The man said: "Lord who is He, that My faith to Him might bow?" Said Jesus: "Thou beholdest Him, He talketh with thee now." Then he said: "Lord, I do believe," With fervent voice, and loud, And bending forward to the earth, In reverent worship bowed. [Illustration: RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON. St. Luke 15.15-32] The Raising of Lazarus. OF Martha you've already heard, Who entertained the Lord When once He passed through Bethany, And Mary heard His word. They had a brother, Lazarus, And Jesus loved the three, And now the young man was brought low, And very ill was he. And his sisters sent a message Unto the Lord, in haste: "Behold, he whom Thou lovest well Is sick and failing fast." But Jesus said: "This sickness Comes not that he must die, But for God's glory, that His Son Be glorified thereby. "Our friend, Lazarus, sleepeth," Were the next words He spake: "And I go hence that I may him Out of his sleep awake." Then said they: "Lord, if Laz'rus sleep He surely shall do well"-- Thinking that it was natural rest That o'er his eyelids fell.