Cry to Him to
make your will like His own will, that you may love what He loves,
and hate what He hates, and do what He wishes you to do. And then
you will surely find my words come true: "Those who long to mend,
and yet know that they cannot mend themselves, let them but pray, and
God will mend them."
XXXIII--THE RED SEA TRIUMPH
Preached Easter-day Morning, 1852.
This is a night to be much observed unto the Lord, for bringing the
children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.--EXODUS xii. 42.
You all, my friends, know what is the meaning of Easter-day--that it
is the Day on which The Lord rose again from the dead. You must have
seen that most of the special services for this day, the Collect,
Epistle, and Gospel, and the second lessons, both morning and
evening, reminded you of Christ's rising again; and so did the proper
Psalms for this day, though it may seem at first sight more difficult
to see what they have to do with the Lord's rising again.
Now the first lessons, both for the morning and evening services,
were also meant to remind us of the very same thing, though it may
seem even more difficult still, at first sight, to understand how
they do so.
Let us see what these two first lessons are about.
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