not "honouring" GOD in their hearts. Remember that there is much meaning in the story of Joseph being brought as it is before you on two successive Sundays in every Church year. And remember that every Christian child must often have some opportunity, if he or she really is thoughtful about it, of fulfilling the command which has a very blessed promise attached to it of GOD's special approval and protection.

Eastertide.

PROOFS OF THE RISEN LIFE.

SECOND SUNDAY AFTER EASTER.

For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow His steps."I PETER ii. 21.

You have already been told about the great Eastertide lesson as it bears upon our daily Christian life. The LORD Christ rose from the death He underwent for us, and we have to rise from the death under which we have lain through sin. Thus doing we follow Him. All Christians say they follow their LORD. Easter lessons and hopes are so great and glorious, that the Church orders our minds to rest for several weeks after Easter Day upon the Resurrection and its teaching about

our lives. When you are told that your Saviour's rising teaches you to rise, it is not only my words that you hear. GOD's holy Apostles first taught it. I am interpreting their words to you, and their words came through GOD the Holy Ghost. St. Paul told the Corinthians and Colossians (i. e., the baptized Christians who lived at Corinth and Colosse), that if they died to sin in baptism and rose to a better life with Christ their LORD, in their raised (or renewed) life, they must be better men and women, better boys and girls, through so doing. They could not be as they had been before if they were really Christians. Of course they could not. If you are living day by day, my little ones, just as those would live who never had heard of Christ, or who never felt any love for Him, you are not really Christians—not Christians in the truest sense. Of course having

been baptized into Christ you will remain a part of Him, unless you wilfully drive away entirely His Holy Spirit. GOD is so very long-suffering, that it is really rather a hard thing for some of us to cut ourselves quite off from the action of the grace He once has given us. But that you can do even that, you must know; for were it not possible St. Paul would not have warned us against "quenching that Holy Ghost" within us. If you do not seek His guidance-if you turn away from all His good influences and holy whispers if, when you think of doing or saying something which He forces you to see you ought not, you yet insist upon doing or saying it—then you are trying to lose Him and His gift—then you are not being made better because He dwells within you. Then you are not good Christians. All Christian people are by Him being

made better day by day, unless through their own wilfulness and sinfulnessyes, unless through their own sin. St. Paul says, "If we have risen with Christ we seek heavenly things," i. e., we do those things which Christ our LORD loves, as we live knowingly before God. St. Peter in to-day's Epistle says that by our calling (i. e., in our baptism) we have begun to be as God loves to see us, because Christ the LORD not only suffered and died for us, but gave us an example to follow.

Now, little people can follow in the steps of Jesus Christ their LORD. I will show you how. Little people must follow in the steps of Jesus Christ, if they mean that His rising again shall be a type or figure of their rising above all that is wicked, to live holy lives before GOD their Father. Yes, if you try to be holy you will be "following" Jesus. Now you know, I suppose, what being