and is only fulfilled when '_The Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with Thee_.' On the Transfiguration-Hill, Peter, almost unwittingly, set forth this truth. He seemed to mean to say, 'Is not this the true joy of the Feast of Tabernacles? Is not the Lord here?'" If this be so, we can think of the palm-groves of Bethany again bared of their branches;--these waved in triumph as a new and nobler "Hosannah" awakes the ancient echoes of Olivet--"Blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord!" As the regenerated children of Abraham build up the waste places in and around Zion, which for ages have been "without inhabitant," and whose names are still dear to them--think we, amid other scenes of hallowed interest, they will not love oftentimes to take the old "Sabbath-day's journey" to the site of "the Home of Mary and her sister Martha." While seated nigh the reputed burial-place, with the Gospel in their hands, reading, through their tears, the story of their fathers' impenitency, and of their Saviour's compassion and sympathy at the grave of His friend, will not a new and impressive truthfulness invest one of the old Bethany utterances, "THEN said the Jews, Behold how He loved him!" But these, after all, are merely speculative thoughts, on which we can build nothing. We have in these "Memories" to deal with the Bethany of the _past_, not with the imagined Bethany of the _future_. However pleasing, in connexion with the Honoured Village, these thoughts of a Millennial day may be, "nevertheless WE, according to His promise, rather look for _new_ Heavens and a _new_ Earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness." * * * * * TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES Page numbers refer to the original text. Footnote numbers refer to this transcribed version. Title page: Added missing quotation mark. p6: Retained spelling of "Perea" in text, and "Peraean" in quotation. p58: Hyphen added to "death-bed" for consistency. p119: Replaced "he" (referring to Jesus) with "He" twice. p188: Hyphen retained in "child-like" in quoted poem. p220: Inconsistent capitalisation of "Hosannahs" retained. p248: Used single quotes to clarify quotation within speech. Footnote 8 (referenced on p24): Missing full stop added. For consistency, various ellipses have been rendered as "..." End of Project Gutenberg's Memories of Bethany, by John Ross Macduff