Gratefully, as we bow before the Cross, humbly and devoutly as we say, was ever sorrow like that sorrow, or love like that love; had there been only a Cross and a grave, with no crowning after the Cross, no rising out of the grave, the world would still be in its sins and Death king. But hear St. Paul’s gospel: “It is Christ that died, yea, rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us” [Rom. viii. 34]. That is a gospel. When Christ died man was redeemed, and when He rose man was justified, and when He ascended man was crowned.

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