A Series of Meditations Adapted for Daily Use during Passion Week. 77 Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields; 141. M. 558 PREFACE. HE object with which the following Meditations were originally composed was to assist those who attended the Daily Services at St. George's, Bloomsbury, during Passion Week, to give a definite direction to their thoughts and prayers at that solemn season. The Addresses were intended to sum up the chief points of a course of Sermons, which had been preached on the preceding Sundays, on "Our use of God's gifts." None of them was allowed to exceed six or seven minutes in delivery, as time was of great importance. But short as they necessarily were, they will probably be considered long enough for the simple purpose at which they aimed; which was to invite the worshippers to make a distinct act of repentance for their past misuse of God's gifts, and a distinct resolution with respect to their better employment of them for the future. They are now published in the hope that they may help to build up and strengthen the spiritual life of others also, who are seeking to "BRING INTO CAPTIVITY EVERY THOUGHT TO THE OBEDIENCE OF CHRIST." Bloomsbury Rectory, E. CAPEL CURE. July, 1873. Meditation E. THE GIFT OF LIFE. OW few reflect on the awful nature of Life! To say of any one that he exists, to speak of ourselves as living now, -is to say that we are undergoing that solemn trial for our discipline, which shall fix our fate hereafter for ever! On our use or abuse of Life depends whether we shall enjoy for eternity a state of unspeakable bliss with God, and Christ, and His Holy Angels, and the spirits of just men made perfect, or endure for eternity |