minds that they heard them long ago ! They find that they had heard, but heard in vain.
The true cure for a dull memory in religion, is to get deeper lore toward Christ, and affections more thorougfaly set on things above. We do not readily foi^t ihe things we love, and the objects which we keep continnally under our eyes. The names of our parents and children are always remembered. The face of the husband or wife we love is graven on the tablets of our hearts. The moie our affections are engaged in Christ's service, the more easy shall we find it to remember Christ's words. The words of the apostle ought to be carefully pondered': " We ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them sUp." (Heb. ii. 1.)
We see, lastly, how slow of belief the first disciples were on the subject of Christ's resurrection. We read tiiat when the women returned from the sepulchre and told the things they had heard from the angels to the eleven apostles, "their words seemed to th^n idle tales, and they believed them not." In spite of the plainest decla- rations from their Master's own lips that He would rise again the third day, — ^in spite of the distinct testimony of five or six credible witnesses that the sepulchre was empty, and that angels had told them He was risen, — ^in spite of the manifest impossibility of accounting £>r the empty tomb on any other supposition tiian that of a miraculous resurrection, — ^in spite of all this, these devea faithless ones would not believe !
Perhaps we marvel at their unbelief. No doubt it seems at first idght most senseless, most unreasonable,