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Day 7 - Sabbath (Saturday) | Daily Devotions | Morning and Evening: Daily Reading | Connect the Testaments | My Utmost for His Highest | Thoughts for the Quiet Hour |

  Morning, April 5 . Go To Evening Reading "They laid the cross on him, that he might bear it after Jesus." —Luke 23:26 We see in Simon carrying the cross a picture of the work of the Church throughout all generations; she is the cross-bearer after Jesus. Mark, then, Christian, Jesus does not suffer to exclude your suffering. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it. Christ exempts you from sin, but not from sorrow. Remember that, and expect to suffer. But let us comfort ourselves with this thought, that in our case, as in Simon's, it is not our cross, but Christ's cross which we carry. When you are molested for your piety; when your religion brings the trial of cruel mockings upon you, then remember it is not your cross, it is Christ's cross; and how delightful is it to carry the cross of our Lord Jesus! You carry the cross after him . You have a blessed company; your path is marked with the footprints of your Lord. Th...
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Day 6 - Friday | Daily Devotions | Morning and Evening: Daiy Reading | Connect the Testaments | My Utmost for His Highest | Thoughts for the Quiet Hour |

  Morning, April 4 . Go To Evening Reading “For he hath made him sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.” —2 Corinthians 5:21 Mourning Christian! Why weepest thou? Art thou mourning over thine own corruptions? Look to thy perfect Lord, and remember, thou art complete in him; thou art in God’s sight as perfect as if thou hadst never sinned; nay, more than that, the Lord our Righteousness hath put a divine garment upon thee, so that thou hast more than the righteousness of man—thou hast the righteousness of God. O thou who art mourning because of inbred sin and depravity, remember, none of thy sins can condemn thee. Thou hast learned to hate sin; but thou hast learned also to know that sin is not thine—it was laid upon Christ’s head. Thy standing is not in thyself—it is in Christ; thine acceptance is not in thyself, but in thy Lord; thou art as much accepted of God to-day, with all thy sinfulness, as thou wilt be when thou standest bef...

Day 5 - Thursday | Daily Devotions | Morning and Evening: Daily Reading | Connect the Testaments | My Ut Most for His Highest | Thoughts for the Quiet Hour |

  Morning, April 3 . Go To Evening Reading "They took Jesus, and led him away." —John 19:16 He had been all night in agony, he had spent the early morning at the hall of Caiaphas, he had been hurried from Caiaphas to Pilate, from Pilate to Herod, and from Herod back again to Pilate; he had, therefore, but little strength left, and yet neither refreshment nor rest were permitted him. They were eager for his blood and, thus, led him out to die, loaded with the cross. O dolorous procession! Well may Salem's daughters weep. My soul, do thou weep also. What do we learn here as we see our blessed Lord led forth? Do we not perceive that truth outlined in shadow by the scapegoat,  not the high-priest, brings the scapegoat, puts both his hands upon its head, confessing the people's sins, that thus those sins might be laid upon the goat, and cease from the people? Then the goat was led away by a fit man into the wilderness, and it carried away the people's sins, so t...

Day 4 - Wednesday | Daily Devotions | Morning and Evening: Daily Reading | Connect the Testaments | My Utmost for His Highest | Thoughts for the Quiet Hour |

  Morning, April 2 . Go To Evening Reading "He answered him with never a word." —Matthew 27:14 He had never been slow of speech when he could bless the sons of men, but he would not say a single word for himself. "Ever man spake like this man," "never man was silent like him. Was this singular silence the index of his perfect self-sacrifice ? Did it show that he would not utter a word to stay the slaughter of his sacred person, which he had dedicated as an offering for us? Had he so entirely surrendered himself that he would not interfere in his own behalf, even in the minutest degree, but be bound and slain an unstruggling, uncomplaining victim? Was this silence a type of defencelessness against sin? Nothing can be said in palliation or excuse of human guilt; therefore, he who bore its whole weight stood speechless before his judge. Is not patient silence the best reply to a gainsaying world ? Calm endurance answers some questions infinitely more conclusi...