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is true that He is not there: He is risen: but though risen, He is still spiritually there. Yesterday, indeed, there was a great stone at the mouth of the sepulchre, and a seal was set upon it. We passed it by in silence; we were afraid to invite you then. For how could the Church on earth sing her triumphal hymn in the day of her exile from her Lord? But now the seal has been removed, the great stone has been rolled back from the door. The Lord is risen-He is risen indeed. "Now are we bound to praise God for the glorious resurrection of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord: for He is the very paschal lamb Who was offered for us, and hath taken away the sin of the world; Who by His death hath destroyed death, and by His rising again hath restored to us everlasting life. Therefore with angels and archangels and with all the company of Heaven, let us laud and magnify His glorious name "." The Lord is risen-He

7 Communion Service for Easter Day.

is risen indeed. Why then do ye any longer tarry? Nay, if ye be among the number of those who during the past week mocked Him, scourged Him, reviled Him, and crucified Him; if ye be as Judas, who betrayed Him, or as Pilate, who condemned Him; then indeed have ye cause for fearfulness and alarm; well may ye hasten hence, and close your eyes to the signs of His death, the tokens of His resurrection from the dead; well may ye try with the chief priests to force yourselves to believe that He is not risen at all,—that His disciples came by night and stole Him away. But if in very truth during the past week ye have been seeking "Jesus Which was crucified," fear not ye. Come, listen to the joyous greeting of the angel. With an humble and thankful heart, with a glad yet reverent step, with great joy and yet with holy fear, "Come see the place where the Lord lay."

Easter Monday.

THE JOURNEY TO EMMAUS.

(ON EASTER DAY.)

"AND, behold, two of them went that Luke xxiv.

same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about three

score furlongs.

And they talked together of all these things which had happened.

And it came to pass, that, while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them.

But their eyes were holden that they should not know him.

And he said unto them, What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad?

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And the one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things which are come to pass there in these days?

And he said unto them, What things? And they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people:

And how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him.

But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, to day is the third day since these things were done.

Yea, and certain women also of our company made us astonished, which were early at the sepulchre ;

And when they found not his body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels, which said that he was alive.

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