Excerpt from Life Indeed Judge, then, of the utter desolation of sorrow with which on reaching the sepulchre she found it empty. Was it that then for the first time she realized that she had lost Him? Not so, for two days before she had seen Him die. She had stood, with the few faithful and loving ones, near the cross on which He had expired. She had looked, to the very end, for some signal display of the power which she believed Him to possess, for a triumphal vindication of the claims which she knew Him to have made. But no help had come from earth or heaven. She had heard His dying cry, and when at last He was taken down from the cross, she saw only too plainly that His life was extinct. She had witnessed His burial, and then, as she sat and watched, while the darkness deepened, before His closed and silent tomb, the terrible certainty had sunk into her soul that all was over. Then it was that she knew that He was gone from her, and that she should never see Him alive again. And long before the hours of the Sabbath had passed and it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, every ray of hope had faded and left her in the stupor of inconsolable grief. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.