eam's blaze."

_MS. unfinished Story_. l843.

Woman's Work. April 26.

Woman is the teacher, the natural and therefore divine guide, purifier,
inspirer of man.

_MS._

Passion--Easter--Ascension. April 27.

Good Friday, Easter Day, and Ascension, are set as great lights in the
firmament of the spiritual year;--to remind us that we are not animals
born to do what we like, and fulfil the simple lusts of the flesh--but
that we are rational moral beings, members of Christ, children of God,
and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven, and that, therefore, like
Christ, we must die in order to live, stoop in order to conquer. They
remind us that honour must grow out of humility; that freedom must grow
out of discipline; that sure conquest must be born of heavy struggles;
righteous joy out of righteous sorrow; pure laughter out of pure tears;
true strength out of the true knowledge of our own weakness; sound peace
of mind out of sound contrition.

_All Saints' Day Sermons_. 1871.

How to keep Passion-Week. April 28.

Can we go wrong if we keep our Passion-week as Christ kept His? And how
did He keep it? Not by shutting Himself up apart, not by the mere
thinking over the glory of self-sacrifice. He taught daily in the
temple; instead of giving up His work, He worked more earnestly than ever
as the terrible end drew near. Why should not we keep Passion-week, not
by merely hiding in our closets to meditate even about Him, but by going
about our work each in his place, dutifully, bravely, as Christ went?

_Town and Country Sermons_. 1859.

Self-Sacrifice. April 29.

Without self-sacrifice there can be no blessedness either in earth or in
heaven. He that loveth his life will lose it. He that hateth his life
in this paltry, selfish, luxurious world shall keep it to life eternal.

_All Saints' Day Sermons_. 1870.

Help from our Blessed Dead. April 30.

And so with those who are Christ's whom we love. Partakers of His death,
they are partakers of His resurrection. Let us believe the blessed news
in all its fulness, and be at peace. A little while and we see them, and
again a little while and we do not see them. But why? Because they are
gone to the Father, to the Source and Fount of all life and power, all
light and love, that they may gain life from His life, power from His
power, light from His light, love from His love; and surely not for
nought. Surely not for nought