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Those who wish to make arrangements for Localizing the PENNY POST, should apply at once to the Publishers. PUBLISHED BY HER MAJESTY'S COMMAND. FELLOWSHIP IN JOY AND SORROW. A SERMON preached in H Majesty's Royal Chapel in Windsor Castle, on the Sunday preceding the Marriage of II R PRINCE OF WALES, March 8, 1863. By SAMUEL, LORD BISHOP OF OXFORD, Lord High Aloner the Queen; Chancellor of the Most Noble Order of the Garter. Oxford and London: JOHN HENRY & JAMES PARKER. Ir was 'customary with the Jews, when travelling into foreign countries, or familiarly conversing with the Greeks and Romans, to assume to themselves a Greek or a Latin name, of great affinity, and sometimes of the very same signification with that of their own country. Thus our Lord was called Christ, answering to His Hebrew title, Mashiach, or "The Anointed;" Simon, styled Peter, according to that of Cephas, which our Lord put upon him; Tabitha, called Dorcas, both signifying a goat; thus S. Thomas had the title of Didy mus, which signifies a twin; the Syriac version rendering it Thauma, signifying also a twin. The history of the gospel takes no particular notice either of the country or kindred of this Apostle. That he was a Jew is certain, and in all probability | a Galilean. He was born (if we may believe an ancient writer) of very mean parents, who brought him up to the trade of fishing; but who also took care to give him that more useful education, instruction in the knowledge of the Scriptures. He was, together with the rest, called to the Apostleship; and not long after gave an eminent instance of his hearty willingness to undergo the saddest fate that might attend them. For when the rest of the Apostles dissuaded our Saviour from going into Judæa lest the Jews should stone Him, which they had once before attempted, S. Thomas desires them not to hinder Christ's journey thither, though it might cost their lives: "Let us also go, that we may die with him."* So that he made up in pious affection what he seemed to want in the quickness of his understanding, not readily apprehending some of our Lord's discourses, nor over-forward to believe more than himself had seen. When the holy Jesus, a little before His fatal sufferings, had been speaking to them of the joys of heaven, and had told them that He was going to prepare, that they might follow Him, and that they knew both the place whither He was going, and the way thither, S. Thomas replied, that they knew not whither He went, and much less the way that led to it.t To which our Lord returns this short but satisfactory answer, that He was the true living Way, the Person whom the Father sent into the world to show men the paths of eternal life; and that they could not miss heaven, if they did but keep to that way which He had put before them. Our Lord being dead, it is evident how much the Apostles were distracted between hopes and fears concerning His resurrection. The very day whereon He arose He came into the house where they were, with the doors fast shut about them for fear of the Jews, and gave them sufficient assurance that He was really risen from the dead. At this meeting S. Thomas was absent, having probably never again found them since their last dispersion in the garden, when every one's fears prompted him to consult his own safety. At his return, they told him that their Lord had appeared to them; but he obstinately refused to give credit to what they said, or to believe that it wa He; presuming it rather an apparition, unless he might see the very prints 6 the nails, and feel the wounds in His hands and sides. A strange piece » infidelity! Was this any more than what Moses and the prophets had lo since foretold? Had not our Lord frequently told them in plain terms, th He must rise again the third day? Could he question the possibility of in who had so often seen Him do the greatest miracles? Was it reasonable to reject the testimony of so many eye-witnesses, ten to one against himself, ar of whose fidelity he was assured? or could he think that either themselves should be deceived, or that they would jest and trifle with him in so solem and serious a matter? A stubbornness that might have betrayed him into aŭ eternal infidelity. But our compassionate Saviour would not take advantage of the man's refractory unbelief, and so on that day seven-night again came t them, as they were solemnly met at their devotions, and calling to Thomas bade him look upon His hands, put his fingers into the prints of the nat and thrust his hand into the hole of His side, and satisfy his faith by a demonstration from sense. The man was quickly convinced of his error and t F * John xi. 16. + John xiv. 5. John xx. 19. |