How often have I
exclaimed in your hearing, 'Oh that I had been born in that age! How
much easier to have been a Christian then!' I have this day, with
humbleness of heart, to declare that I have found myself entirely in
the wrong. I have been in the country where images of the Ages are
stored. I have seen the very copy of the Age of our Lord. I was in it
as if I had been born in it. I saw the scenes which those who then
lived saw. I saw the crowds who moved in those scenes. I beheld the
very person of the Divine Lord. And oh! my father, and oh! neighbors
and friends, shall I shrink from saying to you, 'Be thankful it is in
this Age and not in that you have been born, and that you know the Lord
as this Age knows Him, and not as He was seen and known in His own.'
"We arrived at Bethany on the day when Lazarus was raised. I mingled
with the crowd around the grave. I saw the sisters. I was amazed to
find that nothing looked to me as I had expected it to do. Even the
Lord had not the appearance of One who could raise the dead.
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