fleshly sins. But the more you struggle against sin, the less hard
you will find it to fight; the more you resist the devil, the more he
will flee from you; the more you try to conquer your own bad
passions, the more God will help you to conquer them; it may be a
hard battle, but it is a sure one. No fear but that everyone can, if
he will, work out his own salvation, for it is God Himself who works
in us to will and to do of His good pleasure. All you have to do is
to give yourselves up to Him, to study His laws, to labour as well as
long to keep them, and He will enable you to keep them; He will teach
you in a thousand unexpected ways; He will daily renew and strengthen
your hearts by the working of His Spirit, that you may more and more
know, and love, and do, what is right; and you will go on from
strength to strength, to the height of perfect men, to the likeness
of Jesus Christ the Lord, who conquered all human temptations for
your sake, that He might be a high-priest who can be touched with the
feeling of our infirmities, because He was tempted in all points like
as we are, yet without sin.



VII--GOOD FRIDAY



In all their affliction He was afflicted, and the angel of His
presence saved them. In His love and in His pity He redeemed them;
and He bare them and carried them all the days of old.--ISAIAH lxiii.
9.

On this very day, at this very hour, 1817 years ago, hung one nailed