me.de." All mUBt be taught the {,'hrietie.u God andMe.n, who am (uot "will bo ")heuoe- faith e.nd duty, and how to obtain God's forward ever present among you, with you help to enable them to please him, and to as Companion, Friend, Guide, 811.viour, God. continue in the way of sRlvation, so that I am with you in all your ministrntiona, they may "die from sin, and rise again unto prayers publio and private, baptisms, com- righteoum088 ; contint1ally mortifying all munions, exbortatious, dootrine, discipline their evil and oorrupt affeotione, and daily And this, not now and then, not at corle.in prooeeding in all virtue and godliness of times only, but " all the days" of your living" (' Public Baptism of Infants'). pilgrimage, all the dark dnys of trial aud "He gives," says St. Chrysoetom, "the one persecution and afiliction ; all the days charge with a view to doctrine [i.e. the form when you, my apostles, are gathered to your of baptism], the other concerning command- rest, and have committed your . work to ments" (' Hom.,' xo.). All that Christ other hands; my presence shall never be commanded, both in doctrine and momle, all withdmwnfor a single moment. Often had that he had taoght and enjoined during God made an analogous promise to his the three past years, they were hence- servants under the ,;ild dispensation-to forward to take as their text-book, and en- Moses (Exod. iii 12), to Joshua (Deut. x:u:i. force on all who were admitted into the 23), to Jeremiah (Jer. L 8); but this spiritual Church by baptism. As the Greek is, "l presenoe of Christ is something unknown to commanded," being aorist and not perfect, previous history, a nearness unspeakable, in it me.y be rightly opined that Christ here the Church at large and in the Ohristian's alludes also to various details which he set heart. Even unto the end of the world ; the forth and enjoined during these great forty consummation of the age,as ch.xxiv. 3 (where de.ys, between his resurrection and as- see note). When the new era is ushered cension, when he gave commandments unto in, evangelizing work will cease; God shall the apostles whom he had chosen, and be all in all; all shall know him from the spe.ke to them of the things pertaining to least unto the greatest. And they shall ever the kingdom of God (Acts i 2, 3). And, lo. be with the Lord ; " wherefore comfort one ".After the.t, becaUBe he hod enjoined on another 'With these words" (1 These. iv. 18), them great things, to raise their courage, Amen. The word is here an interpolation, he says, Lo I" etc.. (Chrysostom). lam with but it expresses what every pious reader :,ou &lway ( i-y,l, p.•6' v,,;;,11 ••µ, ..-"'1-cu -nis must say in his heart, "Bo be it, 0 Lord: 71p.epas). Every word is emphatic. The be with us unto the end ; guide and Ascension was at hand ; this implied an strengthen 11B in life, and bring us safely absence of his visible presence, to be re- through the valley of the shadow of death, placed by a spiritual presence, more perfect, to thy blessed presence, where is the fulnel!I pot.ent, effeciual, infinite. It is I myself, I, of joy for evermore I "
HOMILETICS. Vera. 1-10.-The Beswrrection. L THE ANGEi, AT THE SEPULCHRE. 1. The holy women. The great sabbath was over. It had been a busy day in the temple; all had been done as usual The priests little thought, while performing their elaborate ritual, that the one great Sacrifice, Oblation, and Satisfaction for the sins of the whole world, the Sacrifice of which all their sacrifices were but figures, had been offered up on Calvary. Yet the great darkness and the portents which had marked the moment of the Saviour's death must have excited attention at Jerusalem, must have harrowed the consciences of many, and filled the whole city with uneasiness and doubt and a.we. Strange anxieties must have disturbed the rest of that sabbath. Men went a.bout asking strange questions of one another. Strange forebodings filled the air. The priest.II especially must have been full of excitement and anxiety. Their chiefs had been foremost in urging the Crucifixion; and the rent veil must have filled them with wonder and terror. What could it mean? The holy of holies lay exposed-the awful place, which no human being might behold, save only the high priest, and that but once a year, with solemn rites of expiation. It must have seemed to them a tremendous portent, foreboding some great change, some stupendous event, Even the cold indifferent Sadducees must have been stirred into anxious expectation by a pFodigy so significant, so startling, so plainly pretematura.1. '!'his feeling bad con- strained them to apply to the hated Gentiles even on the sabbath, Herod had employed his soldiers to slay, if it were pol!Sible, the infant King of the Jews. The chief priests employed the Roman soldiers to prevent, if it were possible, the reaur- on. xxvm.1-20.] THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO BT. MATTHEW. 647