As every picture needs its background, so the joys of Easter require the gloom of Good Friday to show them in their true light. Easter is not only a revelation of life, but of life from the dead; it tells not only of the rising of our Lord, but of His resurrection from the dead. Hence this book begins with the Death on Calvary, with the last Words from the Cross as a background. These are taken as the heptachord of love; the relation of the notes of the musical scale to their tonic and to one another being used to illustrate the relation of our Lord's Seven Words to their great key-note, Love. Each of the Words is considered as a manifestation of some special characteristic of love. After the Words from the Cross come the Eastertide addresses; the first one taking up the Good Friday thought, the power of love; and they deal with all the recorded appearances of our Lord after His resurrection, concluding with His appearance to S. Paul on the road to Damascus. The book is the result of a remark made by a parishioner last Easter, that while the supply of devotional reading for Lent is so abundant, there are but few books which treat of Easter and the Great Forty Days. If this little book in any way helps to supply this need, I shall be more than thankful. -- Alfred G. Mortimer
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