THE LIFE OF JESUS CHRIST, In Glory: DAILY MEDITATIONS, FROM EASTER DAY TO THE WEDNESDAY AFTER TRINITY SUNDAY. ADAPTED FOR MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH IN ENGLAND, LONDON: WILLIAM JONES CLEAVER, 80, BAKER STREET, PORTMAN SQUARE; & J. H. PARKER, OXFORD. 1405. A 10 ΤΟ Our Mother, IN WHOM WE WERE NEW-BORN TO GOD, IN WHOM WE HAVE BEEN FED ALL OUR LIFE LONG UNTIL THIS DAY, IN WHOSE BOSOM WE HOPE TO DIE, The Church of England, BELOVED AND AFFLICTED, AND BY AFFLICTION PURIFIED, ONCE THE PARENT OF SAINTS, NOW THROUGH OUR SINS FALLEN, YET ARISING, IN REVERENT AND GRATEFUL AFFECTION, FROM HER HUMBLEST AND MOST UNWORTHY SON, WITH THE EARNEST PRAYER THAT HIS INFIRMITIES AND SHORT-SIGHTEDNESS MAR NOT ANY WAY GOD'S GRACIOUS WORK TOWARDS HER, NOR WHAT IS PURPOSED FOR THE HOLINESS OF HER CHILDREN BRING AUGHT OF EVIL TO HER. ADVERTISEMENT. 66 MANY, who have learnt some of the blessings of the Sacred Feast of Lent," and these too, deepening upon them with each year's experience of its value, have found it much harder to use to their soul's health our Easter joys. It is far easier to fast religiously, than to feast. Lent is an image of our whole pilgrim-life, wherein we, by God's grace, sow good seed, and go our way weeping; Easter is the picture of the time when they who are saved shall come again with joy, and bring their sheaves with them. Its thanksgivings are the faint prelude of the everlasting praises of the redeemed, and the endless Hallelujahs to Him, Who has overcome death for and in them. And we, such as we are, are mostly fitter for strictness and discipline, than for unmixed joy and thanksgiving. And so, since this life is, as a whole, the time in which we shall mourn," the life to come, that wherein we shall be "comforted;" since our LORD pronounces those "blessed who weep now, for they shall laugh" for exceeding joy in heaven; "blessed they who hunger now," for they shall be filled" then, even with Him Who is "Angels' Food," the Fulness Which "filleth 66 a |