"'I am the Resurrection and the Life'"-- Thus Martha--"how the very words to me Were spirit of life, were resurrection power, So spoken, from such lips, at such a time, When Lazarus lay sleeping in that swoon Which we call death! I did not need to wait Until my brother should indeed again Arise, obedient, at His word, to feel The utterer of that saying was the Christ." "But when He wept, when Jesus with us wept," Said Mary, "I felt solace in His tears Such that almost I would have always grieved, To be always so comforted." A pause, Then eyes on Lazarus turned, and he: "From where I was--but where I was, although I seem Well to remember, yet could not I tell In any words, or show by any signs, However I might try--I heard His voice Say, 'Lazarus, come forth.' Those round me heard, I thought they heard, with me, that potent voice, And they were not surprised, as was not I, Seeming to know it and to understand. That voice goes everywhere and is obeyed, To all the perfect law of liberty, And I obeyed as naturally as I breathe; And I am here, in witness of His power, Whose power is universal through all worlds." "His power is great," said Ruth, "and wide His sway, Yet seems His grace the sovereign of His power." "Yea," Rachel said, "for doth not power in Him Bend to the yoke and service of His grace?" "We easily err," said Lazarus, "seeking here To comprehend the incomprehensible. All difference is in us, for all in Him One and the same is; power is grace and grace Is power, in Him, nay, power and grace is He. And He is ours and we are His, and one Are we with Him and in Him one likewise Each with the other, all." "How blest!" they said, "And the whole family in heaven and earth Are one, and Stephen is with us or we With him, and heaven is here or here is heaven!"