you deserted your colors! Surrender yourself again to your captain, renew your oath, and promise an exact obedience for the future. Banish from your heart whatever you suspect may have treacherously leagued with his and your enemies, and say with the psalmist, "Deliver me from my enemies, O Lord! teach me to do Thy will, for Thou art my God." (Ps. cxlii. 9.)
MONDAY.
Christ Meets Judas.
I. Christ having ended His prayer, said to His disciples, "Rise, let us go; behold, he is at hand who will betray me. And as he yet spoke, behold Judas, one of the twelve, came." (Matt. xxvi. 46.) Mark the persevering diligence of the traitor in his bad design. — The other Apostles had been asleep, and were scarcely roused at the third call of their master. Judas, on the contrary, was upon the watch to betray him. How attentive are men to temporal affairs, and how careless in spiritual things! Deplore this miserable folly of mankind and of yourself. "Judas, one of the twelve, came." Oh unheard of ingratitude! He who had been so highly favored by his Master, appears at the head of His enemies to seize Him. Learn hence, not to rely too much on gifts that have been received without desert. The more you have, the more will be required from you, and the greater cause you have to fear. " Howl, thou fir-tree, for the cedar is fallen." (Zach. xi. 2.) Have you not reason to fear, when an Apostle fell?
II. " And with him [came] a great multitude with swords and clubs." (Matt. xxvi. 47.) Mark how this wicked rabble came armed with malice, and prepared to gain their evil object, in regard to Jesus. They were
