the saint God says: " Enter into thy rest, thou (the soul), and the arc of thy sanctification (the body)." That was the object of Christ's coming after all, viz., to show us our truest destiny is to be born like Him, to live, to suffer, to do good for others and for God, to die and gloriously rise again. We are to Him what Jacob was to Esau — we cling to His feet emerging from the womb of mother earth. He is the anointed dove sent forth by God, as pigeon fanciers do, to lead back to the dovecote His wayward companions with the odor of His ointments. He is the head and we the members of His mystic body and certainly the head and members will not remain forever disunited. Indeed, if we are destined not to rise again, the whole reason of Christ's birth and death and Resurrection disappears, so that St. Paul justly argues that if the dead rise not again, neither is Christ risen. But since Christ rose, as we have proved, our failure to arise will be because Christ either cannot or will not raise us up. That He can is evident, for He performed the vastly greater miracle of raising up Himself. To lift another from earth is hardly wonderful, to lift oneself aloft without support is marvellous. Or will we say, perhaps, that Adam's power to drag us down to death was greater than Christ's to restore our immortality? No, Christ can resuscitate us and He will. " Father," He says, " I will that where I am they also whom Thou hast given Me may be with Me, that they may see My glory." He bids us follow Him, indeed, but not merely to the cross on Calvary, but beyond it into
