of Jehovah is introduced, crying, “Awake, awake! stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his fury.” As the tremor of light in the eastern sky stirs the life of the sleeping city; as the warm breath of the south wind dissipates the snow and frost of winter; as the whisper, “Talitha cumi,” aroused the sleeping maiden in the house of Jairus—so did that call awake the stupefied city of Zion, and all suddenly the pulse of life began to throb. Arousing herself, she thought