. For if they were like Christ on earth,
and did not use their powers for themselves alone; if they are to be like
Christ when they see Him as He is, then, more surely, will they not use
their powers for themselves, but as Christ uses His, for those they love.

_MS. Sermon_. 1866.

SAINTS' DAYS, FASTS, & FESTIVALS.
Passion-tide.

From the earliest times the Cross has been the special sign of
Christians. St. Paul tells us his great hope, his great business, what
God had sent him into the world to do, was this--to make people know the
love of Christ; to look at Christ's Cross, and take in its breadth and
length and depth and height.

And what is the _breadth_ of Christ's Cross? My friends, it is as broad
as the whole world, for He died for the whole world; as it is written,
"He is a propitiation not for our sins only, but for the sins of the
whole world." And that is the _breadth_ of Christ's Cross.

And what is the _length_ of Christ's Cross? Long enough to last through
all time. As long as there is a sinner to be saved; as long as there is
ignorance, sorrow, pain, death, or anything else which is contrary to God
and hurtful to man in the universe of God, so long will Christ's Cross
last. And that is the _length_ of the Cross of Christ.

And how _high_ is Christ's Cross? As high as the highest heaven, and the
throne of God and the bosom of the Father--that bosom out of which for
ever proceed all created things. Ay, as high as the highest heaven; for,
if you will receive it, when Christ hung upon the Cross heaven came down
on earth, and earth ascended into heaven. And that is the _height_ of
the Cross of Christ.

And how _deep_ is the Cross of Christ? This is a great mystery which
people are afraid to look into, and darken it of their own will. But if
the Cross of Christ be as high as heaven, then it must be as deep as
hell, deep enough to reach the deepest sinner in the deepest pit to which
he may fall, for Christ descended into hell, and preached to the spirits
in prison. Let us hope, then, that is the _depth_ of the Cross of
Christ.

"_The Measure of the Cross_,"
_Sermons_ (_Good News of God_).

Good Friday.

Listen! and our God shall whisper, as we hang upon the cross, {97}
"Children! love! and loving, faint not! great your glory, light your
loss!
_Ye_ are bound--ye may be loosed--_I_ was nailed upon the tree,
Of the pangs I suffered for you--bear awhile a few for me!
Fear not, t