one of our neighbours, every one needing help from us, comes to us as the proxy of our Lord: Whenever you did it to one of My little ones you did it to Me.

STATION XIX.

He that seeth Me, seeth Him that sent Me (v. 45).

A. Here, as in so many places, He declares His own Divinity.

We must desire earnestly to see and know Jesus, that so we may see and know our Father who is in Heaven. This is Life Eternal, that they may know Thee the only true God, and Him Whom Thou hast sent, Christ Jesus (St. John xvii.). And as we gaze on Him in Heaven and contemplate all His perfections, we shall necessarily become like to Him, because we shall see Him as He is (St. John iii.). For it will be impossible not to love His goodness with all our hearts and all our minds and all our strength as soon as we once see Him as He is. And knowing Him thus and loving Him, we shall necessarily become a perfect image of Him, even as iron becomes fire when placed in contact with it.

B. Great thanks we must give to our Lord for becom ing Man and thus enabling us to see Him, and through Him the Eternal Father.

C. If seeing God and knowing Him is to be our bliss in Heaven, why not begin to taste our future bliss here by often contemplating the Person, the words, the acts of Christ Jesus? If God is to be all my happiness in eternity, can He not content me here?

STATION XX.

I am come a Light into the world, that whoever believeth in Me may not remain in darkness (v. 46).

Whoever believeth in Me. We believe rightly in Jesus Christ, when we accept Him as our God and our Teacher, and give up our souls to be taught by Him; and adopt

all His doctrines without any reserve or exception; not picking out some and leaving others in the spirit of heresy. Any one who thus accepts Christ our Lord and all His revelations, lives in a blaze of glorious light. The father of lies, therefore, labours incessantly to hinder belief in Christ, and to induce men to follow some other leader in one or other of the multiplied false religions. Let us pray often and earnestly for all who sit in darkness.

STATION XXI.

If any man hear My words and keep them not, I do not judge him; for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world (v. 47).

I came not to judge.

While on earth, and now in the Blessed Eucharist, our Blessed Lord's work is to seek and to save those who were lost. He is not with us to judge, but to save. Later, when all is over here, He will be our Judge. Mother of God, pray for us poor sinners, that thy Divine Son may be able always to be our Saviour and not our severe Judge.

STATION XXII.

He that despiseth Me, and receiveth not My words, hath one that judgeth him: the Word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day (v. 48).

At present, men dispute and cavil about the meaning of our Lord's words, as, for instance, when He said: Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build My Church (St. Matt. xvi.). But, at the Judgment, every word will stand in such full, clear light, that even the Judge Himself will have no need to interpret. Everything at variance with the words. of our Lord will stand at once condemned.

STATION XXIII.

For I have not spoken of Myself, but the Father Who s

Me, He gave Me commandment what I should say, a what I should speak. And I know that His commas ment is Life Everlasting. . . . Even as the Father se to Me, so do I speak (vv. 49, 50).

A. Our Blessed Saviour, the Eternal Wisdom, w profound humility of Heart speaks nothing from Hims only what His Father has commanded; and we, who hɛ so little wisdom, are ever inclined, in our insane pride, speak and act on our own impulse.

B. All false religions would cease to be, if those w teach adopted this rule of our Lord: "I speak nothing Myself, but only what My Father hath commanded All who have care of children, and all in authority, ha great need to fix this word in their hearts by meditatic The words that I speak to you, I speak not of Myself (t John xiv.).

C. I know that His commandment is Life Everlastin How blessed shall we be if we thoroughly persuade oursel、 that God's commandment is Life Everlasting, that eve word of God is the bread of life for our souls, both h and hereafter! Blessed is the man who hath not walked the council of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinne nor sat in the chair of pestilence. But his will is in the Law the Lord, and on His Law he shall meditate day and nig (Psalm i.). Let not the book of this Law depart from t mouth; but thou shalt meditate on it day and night, th thou mayest observe and do all things that are in it; th shalt thou direct thy way and understand it (Josue i.).

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SCENE III.

OUNT OF OLIVES. THE NIGHT AFTER PALM SUNDAY,

STATION I.

ese things Jesus spoke, and He went away and hid Himself from them (St. John xii. 36).

the day-time He was teaching in the Temple; but at night going out He abode in the mount that is called Olivet (St. Luke xxi. 37).

aving them, He went out of the city into Bethania, and remained there (St. Matt. xxi. 17).

A After crying out with a loud voice His parting nest word of warning, He went away and hid Himself om them.

It was easy for Him, as has been said, to hide Himself. Thenever He pleased their eyes were held and they could t recognise Him. Surrounded, then, by His chosen es He passes away unnoticed. Contemplate Him with is Blessed Mother and His Apostles, and other faithful lowers, walking tranquilly through the midst of His gemies who see not because He so wills. They know not hither He is gone, and He by going hinders many sins hat His presence would have occasioned among His imlacable enemies.

"O Jesus, Hidden God, have mercy on us, that we may ee Thee, for our eyes also are held."

B. At night He abode in the mount that is called Olivet. Where, then, did He pass the night? Some interpreters think that He spent this night and the three followng in the Garden of Gethsemani, preparing for His Sacred Passion by prayer. We know that He passed the whole night in the prayer of God (St. Luke vi.) before He selected His twelve Apostles. The occasion is now more solemn, and He would naturally wish to teach His future martyrs to prepare for their conflict by long and earnest prayer,

"Merciful Lord Jesus, give us grace ever to remember that even when the spirit is willing, the flesh is weak, and that if we pray not, we shall enter into temptation."

C. Consider how easy it is to devote the night hours to any work that we love, and how unwilling we are to watch when we love not. When we read how the Saints spent nights in prayer, we must remember that love for Jesus Christ had become in them a strong passion. To those who have used holy violence, and torn down the veil between their souls and Jesus, His conversation hath no bitterness, nor His company any tediousness, but joy and gladness (Wisdom viii.).

What could the heart of our Blessed Lady do during these holy nights but watch with her Son, wishing what He wished, weeping when He wept, rejoicing at what consoled Him?

D. Contemplate our Saviour during these night hours. He has around Him the olive-trees, the corn-fields, and the vines; and, as has been said, they give consolation to His afflicted Heart, for He is thinking how souls will be gathered to Him through the wheaten bread and the juice of the grape; and how His dying servants will be soothed, and sanctified, and purified from the remnants of sin by the olive oil. Thou waterest the hills, O Lord, that Thou mayest bring bread out of the earth, and that wine may cheer the heart of man, that he may make the face cheerful with oil, and that bread may strengthen man's heart (Psalm ciii.). But bread and wine and oil are to do better and holier work than this,

"Attendite." O stay a little while, and watch the Sacred Heart of Jesus planning to become as bread and wine and oil for His people, and often asking His angels, His Holy Mother, and His eternal Father, What is there that I ought to do more to My vineyard that I have not done to it? (Isaias v.).

E. When we are angry and resentful, we are not planning to become bread or wine or oil to our neighbours, but by wrangling to roar at them as enraged beasts do, or