FOR THE SABBATH.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 510, 19 October 1912, Page 7

FOR THE SABBATH.

THE RESURRECTION. Do you wish to see yourself as you are in truth and to know all that you are for good or ill? It is in Jesus dead and risen again that you must contemplate yourself and study yourself. In Him crucified, forsaken of God, expiring, you behold yourself such as you are in fact —a malefactor, condemned, under a curse. In Him risen again, radiant, triumphant, you behold yourself saved as you are by right, freely forgiven, blest, adopted of God. What then does the ressurrection of Jesus leave for us to do? One thing and one thing only: to change in our condition as before God. The state in which we are standing already by right, into fact; to substitute this real new state —a state of sweetness of holiness, of glory—for out former state of bitterness, pain, ignobleness: in a word, to become in ourselves, what we already are in Jesus. This is the miracle worked by faith, a second miracle worthy of the first, and one which is completing that of the resurrection sets the seal to our personal salvation. —Godet. A GROWING CHURCH.

In the Archbishop of Canterbury's last charge he said in 1747 A.D. there were no Anglican Bishops outside the British Isles. In the year 1877 when I first became privy to the daily work at Lambeth the church had in full communion with the See of Canter bury 184 Bishops. During those thitry-five years the number has steadily increased. There are now 324 Bishops, besides some 46 retired diocesan Bishops, many of whom hold temporary commissions as assistant Bishops, making a total of 30 men in episcopal orders, nearly all of whom may be rightly described as on the active list. A Nonconformist on the Church of England in the person of a Congregational minister, the Rev. Thomas K. Beecher, speaks thus of the Anglican Uhurch in a lecture on the Episcopal Church: "Citizens and Christiana all! Because the Episcopal Church is a reformed church, and not revolutionary, because her book of prayer is rich and venerable above all in the English tongue, because her ritual promotes decency dignity, prosperity and permanence; because hsr historic union through the apostles with Christ comforts and satisfies so many souls; because she adopts her infant children and provides for them education and drill: therefore from her own psalter let us take the words wherewith to bless her, "They shall prosper that love Thee. Peace be within thy walls, and plenteousness within thy palaces, for thy brethren and companions' sake I will wißh them prosperity. Yea, because of the House of the Lord, our God, I will seek to do thee good.—Ps. cxx., 11.