re-enacts this mystery of injustice, with civilized refinements, and softened lights and shadows. We talk of the immorality of physical nature. In its thunderbolts and sunbeams, it makes no discrimination between the just and unjust. Is there not a strain of this in the history of mankind? Must there not then be something beyond? If Eternal Reason be on the throne, Eternal Justice is also on the throne; and He suffers the maladjustments of this life, only because He has ordained an afterlife, in which the morality of the universe shall be vindicated.

Finally, immortality is necessary for the justification of all that makes our mortal life grand and beautiful, our loves and worships and consecrations and heroisms. However our other faculties may stammer, Love speaks loud and clear. It claims immortality. It is only when the capacity of deep and tender love dies out of a man, that he surrenders his belief in immortality.

And does not Love sit with Reason and with Justice on the throne of things? Can the Almighty Father fling His pleading children

into the gulf of nothingness? Will not God then sit in His desolated immortality, like Rachel in Rama weeping for her children? No, it cannot be. We move in this life wrapped in shadows. Our loved ones drop from our side into the great shadow. But we

"Hear at times a sentinel

That moves about from place to place;
And whispers in the vast of space

Among the worlds, that all is well.

And all is well, though faith and form
Be sundered in the night of fear;

Well roars the storm to those that hear
A deeper voice across the storm."

XIX.

Glorified Wounds.

XIX.

GLORIFIED WOUNDS.

And when He had thus spoken, He showed them His hands and His feet. — ST. LUKE xxiv. 40.

N the accounts of the appearances of Christ

IN

after His resurrection, brief and fragmentary as they are, it is evident that the writers believed that they dealt with a fact, not with a myth or an allegory or a romance.

The first apostles of Christianity for eighteen hundred years have stood in the witness-box before the august court of history, and their testimony has left in the minds of the most acute and critical of their world-wide audience the conviction that they were honest men, who told a straightforward story, each reciting his observation of the fact from his personal point of view, without collusion or instruction, and with no motive except the compelling force