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as he talks to me. But they are dead, and he will not see them again till he himself is dead.
Then he surely hopes to see them again.
Yes; because the Prophet told where they and all the dead are gone, and where the living shall meet them again, and what is done in the grave and in Paradise.
Tell me, said Eber, what the Prophet has taught about the dead.
Nay, but Aza says that the Christians do not believe what the Prophet taught.
I am a Christian, said Eber; but I believe that the dead are gone where we shall see them again, and that there is a happy place which Aza calls Paradise, where the people who love God shall dwell for ever.
My father believes this, too.
Yes: all people believe this, who have heard what Jesus Christ said of death, and who know how he raised to life persons who had been dead, and how he was raised up himself when the tomb had been closed over him.
While Eber told the child what miracles Christ had wrought upon the dead, Havilah drew near, and sat down to listen. — When Eber had done, the boy exclaimed,
