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and the whole animal becomes as vivacious as 

 before. 



If we are to credit the accounts published by 

 the HUMANE SOCIETY, organic action has been 

 resuscitated after it has been suspended for many 

 hours, and while the following torpid state was 

 present, the rigid limb the clay-cold skin 

 the silent pulse the breathless lip- the livid 

 cheek the fallen jaw the pinched nostril 

 the fixed and glassy $ye. CELSUS, and other 

 venerable authors, have recorded various in- 

 stances, in which organic action had been reco- 

 vered, after it had been suspended for several 

 days. Without trusting to human testimony 

 alone, we have also that which is divine; I 

 mean only what respects the distinction which 

 exists between apparent, and absolute, death ; 

 the recovery of action in all the cases related, 

 was miraculous effected by the almighty power 

 alone of the great Author of our salvation. 



I might state the case of Jairus's daughter, 

 mentioned by ST. LUKE. She was twelve years 

 old when Jairus first applied to Jesus : " she 

 lay a dying:" but soon after she was so dead, 

 that the ruler of the synagogue told him, " not 

 to trouble his Master:" all, therefore, wept and 

 bewailed her ; but, Jesus said, " Weep not, she 

 is not dead but sleepeth" They laughed him to 

 scorn, knowing that she was dead : and he put 

 them all out, and took her by the hand, saying, 



