Such an attitude of our whole being, which is what is meant by being
a Christian, can only be ours by virtue of the Spirit of the Son of God
dwelling and working within us, and moulding us into His perfect
Likeness. In Him alone we can come to our sonship, to that which is from
the first, potentially, our own. "Ye are all sons of God, through faith,
in Christ Jesus; for as many of you as were baptised into Christ did put
on Christ." Work and suffering, life and death, can only be borne, and
lived, and endured by us in the spirit of sonship, so far as we are
actually "in Christ."

Let us pray that the Mind and Will of the Son of God, disclosed to us in
these Seven Words, may be ours in ever-increasing measure. They can be
ours, if we are in Him, and He in us.

The foundation fact of the Christian life, that which alone makes it
possible, is our union, through sacraments and faith, with Christ; our
actual sharing in His Life, imparted by His Spirit to the members of His
Body. We are meant to be ever drawing upon the infinite moral resources
of that Life by repeated acts of faith. For, as with all other gifts of
God, so it is with this, His supreme gift; we only know it as ours--it
is, in a real sense, only truly our own--in proportion as we are using
it.

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ADDRESS ON EASTER EVE

"We were buried, therefore, with Him through baptism into death; that
like as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so
we also should walk in newness of life."--ROM. VI. 4.

"I delivered unto you, among the first things, that . . . He was
buried."--I COR. XV. 3, 4.

St. Paul lays extraordinary and, at first sight, inexplicable stress, on
the fact of our Lord's Burial. It is certainly strange that, in the
second of these two texts, he mentions it as constituting, along with the
Death of Jesus Christ for our sins, and His Resurrection on the third day
according to the Scriptures, the foundation truths of the apostolic
gospel, as being one of those "first things" of the Christian religion
which, as he had "received," so had he "delivered" to the Corinthians.

This extreme importance attached by St. Paul to the Burial of Christ, can
only be explained by the mysticism of the great apostle. To him the
outward facts, however wonderful and striking in themselves, are of value
only as "signs," as representing great moral and spiritual realities. To
him, as to every man who thinks soberly and st