Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ande 5)ope of ' In that He Himself hath suffered being tempted, He is able also to succour them that are tempted.' — Heb. II. 18. WE have seen, dear friends, that on this point there can be little room for controversy — that the world of mankind, that we ourselves are, in great measure, plunged in darkness — darkness, too, we are forced to confess, of our own creating — the darkness that follows the pride of knowledge in those who do not know; and the darkness that follows permitted sin, which possesses the dire prerogative of clouding the conscience and blunting the moral sense ; darkness also springing in each soul from something difficult to define, something individual and specially our own, from that which is peculiar to our build of mind. They who are tossed on the Atlantic in a night of sounding storm ; they who wander on the unpitying mountains when the mists have wrapped their death- shrouds round the wanderer, and the eye can see no guiding glimmer, though the ear can hear the angry roar of the thunderous torrents and the piercing screams of the tormented winds,—these, these wait not so eagerly for the morning as the soul of the sinner, wakened towards Eternity, watches the Mystery of the most holy Passion, guarantee and evidence of the love of God for His erring creatures, of the interest of the Eedeemer in fallen man. Looking, then, through the darkness, the soul sees a hope of light. There is the light of a splendid example; there, too, the light of exact decision ; there the light, also, of powers provided and principles bequeathed. Christ in the Passion has given us light,—light by the revelation of mysteries, light by the spirit in which He did His work and bore His pain; but the Passion of our Master—this is the point before us at this moment— ha... --This text refers to the Paperback edition.