f it which are now its bright exceptional holiday
times; to make all of it a pleasure by making all of it and not merely
parts of it the utterance of love. Even a little love in our life is the
sunshine that quickens and warms and brightens the whole. There seems at
length to be a reason and a satisfaction in life when love animates us.
It is easy to act well to those whom we really love, and Christ has come
for the express purpose of bringing our whole life within this charmed
circle. He has come not to bring constraint and gloom into our lives,
but to let us out into the full liberty and joy of the life that God
Himself lives and judges to be the only life worthy of His bestowal upon
us.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] It is uncertain whether the "six days" are inclusive or exclusive of
the day of arrival and of the first day of the Feast. It is also
uncertain on what day of the week the Crucifixion happened.

[2] In _The Classical Review_ for July 1890 Mr. Bennett suggests that
the difficult word =pistikes= should be written =pistakes=, and that it
refers to the _Pistacia terebinthus_, which grows in Cyprus and Judaea,
and yields a very fragrant and very costly unguent.

[3] So Stier.

II.

_THE ENTRY INTO JERUSALEM._

"On the morrow a great multitude that had come to the feast, when
they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, took the branches of
the palm trees, and went forth to meet Him, and cried out, Hosanna:
Blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord, even the King of
Israel. And Jesus, having found a young ass, sat thereon; as it is
written, Fear not, daughter of Zion: behold, thy King cometh,
sitting on an ass's colt. These things understood not His disciples
at the first: but when Jesus was glorified, then remembered they
that these things were written of Him, and that they had done these
things unto Him. The multitude therefore that was with Him when He
called Lazarus out of the tomb, and raised him from the dead, bare
witness. For this cause also the multitude went and met Him, for
that they heard that He had done this sign. The Pharisees therefore
said among themselves, Behold, how ye prevail nothing: lo, the world
is gone after Him."--JOHN xii. 12-19.

If our Lord arrived in Bethany on Friday evening and spent the Sabbath
with His friends there, "the next day" of ver. 12 is Sunday; and in the
Church year this day is known as Pal