III. Christ brought peace, as we read in the Gospel of to-day, when "the doors were shu%M and when the disciples were assembled together in prayer. Shut, therefore, carefully the gates of your senses, and retire to the closet of your heart, and the Lord will say to you, " I will give peace in your coasts, you shall sleep, and there ihall be none to make you afraid." (Levit. xxvi. 6.) Above all things, however, divest yourself of everything like sin; for "there is no peace to the wicked, saith the Lord." (Is. xlviii. 22.)
MONDAY.
The Disciples Going to Emmaus. — I.
I. " Behold, two of them went that same day to a town named Emmaus." (Luke xxiv. 13.) They went, therefore, on the very day of the resurrection, to a neighboring town, and while they were discoursing together on the Lord's passion, and the reports of His resurrection, Christ Himself joined them on the way. Learn from this fact how He is delighted with the pious discourses of His followers, particularly when His passion is their subject. The disciples did not know Christ, because their faith was as yet unsteady. Hence, if you wish to understand divine things, you must possess firm faith, "for if you will not believe, you shall not continue." (Is. vii. 9.) God is frequently near us when we take no notice of Him.
II. How amiably Christ insinuated Himself into the company of His disciples! "What are these discourses," he asks, " that ye hold one with another as ye walk, and are sad?" Like a good physician, He searches for the wound, in order to apply a cure. They answered, "Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet,
