was in
advance even of the earliest seeker that Easter morning, and He will be
waiting for us before the break of day with His glad "All Hail," if we
have only eyes to see and hearts to welcome and obey Him.

What is His message to us this spring time? "If ye then be risen with
Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the
right hand of God. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in
God."

It is not risen with Christ, but _resurrected_. It is not rising a little
higher in the old life, but it is rising from the dead. The resurrection
will mean no more than the death has meant. Only so far as we are really
dead shall we live with Him.

MAY 6.

"Reckon ye also yourselves to be alive unto God" (Rom. vi. 11).

Death is but for a moment. Life is forevermore. Live, then, ye children of
the resurrection, on His glorious life, more and more abundantly, and the
fulness of your life will repel the intrusion of self and sin, and
overcome evil with good, and your existence will be, not the dreary
repression of your own struggling, but the springing tide of Christ's
spontaneous overcoming life.

Once in a religious meeting a dear brother gave us a most exhilarating
talk on the risen life. Then another brother got up and talked for a long
time on the necessity of self-crucifixion. A cold sweat fell over us all,
and we could scarcely understand why. But after he had got through, a good
sister clarified the whole situation by saying, that "Pastor S. had taken
us all out of the grave by his address, and then Pastor P. has put us back
again."

Don't go back into the grave again after you have got out, but live like
Him, who "liveth and was dead, and lo! He is alive forevermore, and has
the keys of hell and of death." Keep out of the tomb, and keep the door
locked, and the keys in His risen hands.

MAY 7.

"I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you" (Gal. iv. 19).

It is a blessed moment when we are born again and a new heart is created
in us after the image of God. It is a more blessed moment when in this new
heart Christ Himself is born and the Christmas time is reproduced in us as
we, in some real sense, become incarnations of the living Christ. This is
the deepest and holiest meaning of Christianity. It is expressed in Paul's
prayer for the Galatians. "My little children, for whom I travail in birth
again till Christ be formed in you."

There will yet