the village. Their names were Mary and Martha and Lazarus. Jesus
loved them very much, and they loved Him. But Mary and Martha showed
their love in very different ways. Mary sat as quiet and still as
possible when Jesus came in, and listened to every word that He said;
and Martha wanted so much to make Him happy and comfortable that she
ran about the whole time doing things for Him, instead of listening to
the beautiful words He was saying.

[Illustration: Bethany.]

Jesus likes you and me to work for Him; but He likes us to talk to Him
in prayer too, and to listen to the things that He whispers in our
hearts, and to the words that He says to us in the Bible.

[Illustration: Child at prayer.]




CHAPTER IX.

THE MAN BORN BLIND, AND LAZARUS.

One Sabbath day, most likely the next Sabbath day after the Feast of
Tabernacles, Jesus saw a blind beggar out of doors. That poor man had
always been blind. He had never been able to see at all. Jesus spat
on the ground, and put the wet earth on the blind man's eyes, and said,
'Go, wash in the pool of Siloam.' And the man went and washed, and
came back able to see. The people who met him began to ask him, 'How
were thine eyes opened?' And the man told them. Then they wanted to