Let me only add that this blessed revelation can only bring its full blessing and comfort in proportion as we realize, for our own souls, and for all who are dear to us, that union with Christ in spirit which is essential to our union with Him in life, here and hereafter. “If any man,” says St. Paul, “have not the spirit of Christ, he is none of His.” There are, no doubt, degrees in which men can possess that spirit of Christ; and even if we possess it in but a feeble degree, we may humbly trust that He will not disown it, and that He will grant us some portion of His grace and of His life. But if this eternal life, this life of abundant glory, is open to us all provided we are in union with Him, which of us will not be moved by the afflictions of the present, and the eternal promise of the future, to seek for ever closer union with that Lord of Life, looking less and less at the things that are seen, and more and more at the things that are not seen, and knowing that our life is hid with Christ in God? THE EASTER MESSAGE. PREACHED IN CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL, EASTER DAY, 1916. “_If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth, for ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, Who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory._”--Col. iii. 1-4. Easter Day brings us the most blessed message that could possibly be proclaimed at any time; but at present it is perhaps more blessed and more appropriate than at any other time in our experience. It tells us, in the first place, that Christ was raised from the dead after His crucifixion, and now sits at the right hand of God, Who has highly exalted Him, and given Him a name that is above every name. But it tells us, also, that the blessedness of that resurrection is open to all of us, and that we are admitted to share in the glory which Christ won for Himself; so that when Christ, Who is our life, shall appear we also shall appear with Him in glory. If we appreciate what these assurances mean, we shall be lifted up by them into the apprehension of realities which transform our whole life in this world, and enable us to look beyond it, to an eternal existence of the highest spiritual bliss hereafter.