hough the waters whelm you; fear not, though ye see no land!
Know ye not your God is with you, guiding with a Father's hand?
Cords may wring, and winds may freeze you, shivering on the sullen sea,
Yet the life that burns within you liveth ever hid with Me!"

_MS._ 1842.

Christ must suffer before He entered into His glory. He must die before
He could rise. He must descend into hell before He could ascend into
heaven. For this is the law of God's kingdom. Without a Good Friday
there can be no Easter Day. Without self-sacrifice there can be no
blessedness.

My Saviour! My King! Infinite, Eternal Love--alone of all beings devoid
of self-love! Glory be to Thee for Thy humiliation, for Thy Cross and
Passion!

_MS._

Easter Even.

Christ went down into hell and preached to the spirits in prison. It is
written that "as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made
alive;" and again, "When the wicked man turns from his wickedness he
shall save his soul alive." And we know that in the same chapter God
tells us that His ways are not unequal. It is possible, therefore, that
He has not one law for this life and another for the life to come. Let
us hope, then, that David's words may be true after all, when, speaking
by the Spirit of God, he says not only "if I ascend up to heaven, thou
art there," but "if I go down to hell, thou art there also."

_MS. Sermon_.

Easter Day.

The Creed says, "I believe in the Resurrection of the flesh." I believe
that we, each of us, as human beings, men and women, shall have a share
in that glorious day; not merely as ghosts and disembodied spirits, but
as real live human beings, with new bodies of our own, on a new earth,
under a new heaven. "Therefore," David says, "my flesh shall rest in
hope;" not merely my soul, my ghost, but my flesh. For the Lord, who not
only died but rose again with His body, shall raise our bodies according
to His mighty working, and then the whole manhood of us--body, soul, and
spirit--shall have our perfect consummation and bliss in His eternal and
everlasting glory.

_National Sermons_.

APRIL 25.
St. Mark, Evangelist and Martyr.

God's apostles, saints, and martyrs are our spiritual ancestors. They
spread the Gospel into all lands, and they spread it, remember always,
not only by preaching what they knew, but by being what they were. Their
characters, their personal histories, are as important to us as their
writing