May 6

nn HE cross of Christ is Christ’s glory. Man seeks to win his glory by the sacrifice of others — Christ by the sacrifice of himself: men seek to get crowns of gold — he sought a crown of thorns: men think that glory lieth in being exalted over others — Christ thought that his glory did lie in becoming “a worm and no man,” a scoff and reproach amongst all that beheld him. He stooped when he conquered; and he counted that the glory lay as much in the stooping as in the conquest.

Our God has made the day spring from on high to visit us. Our life is blight with these visits as the sky with stars.