and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste. Exod. xii. 8.-With unleavened bread and with bitter herbs shall they eat it. Eph. vi. 14.-Stand therefore, We are told that the leaven of I Cor. v. 7, 8.-Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. The bitter herbs might denote the repentance for past sin which must ever accompany a participation in the sacrifice of Christ. These are the chief typical particulars of the passover to which we meet with reference in the New Testament, and they are sufficient to prove its wondrous significancy. But many more points of resemblance might be discovered Thus: The Paschal Lamb was chosen out four days before the sacrifice, and Christ entered into Jerusalem four days before His death. It was roasted with fire, and the wrath of God, like a consuming fire, fell upon the head of our Saviour in our place. The whole congregation of Israel were to put it to death (Exod. xii. 6), and so the "chief priests, and the rulers, and the people, were consent ing to the death of Jesus (Luke xxiii. 18). The whole type is rich with spiritual significancy. Thus do we find every particular of the prophetic and typical observance of the passover fulfilled in the person and death of our Saviour, the true Lamb of God who taketh away the sins of the world. Was not that night of deliverance from God's judgment of death and from the Egyptian bondage truly a night to be remembered throughout the generations of Israel, both as a memorial of the past, and as an anticipative type of the Sacrifice provided for the sin of man by God Himself? Was it not meet that, in the prospect of so much greater a deliverance, the redeemed children of Israel should year by year continually show forth the Lord's death till He came ? And we who look back upon the sacrifice of Calvary, shall not we delight to trace in that ancient feast the foreshadowing of our deliverance from the punishment and chain of sin? Happy they who truly lay their sins on Jesus! Happy they who can say, "The chastisement of my peace was upon Him, and by His stripes I am healed!" Surely with loud and jubilant voices, they will sing the praises of Him who hath called them out of darkness into His marvellous light, exclaiming with exalted triumph, "Christ our passover is sacrified for us; therefore let us keep the feast!" II. A NIGHT TO BE YET MORE REMEMBERED. "With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer." 1. "Do this in remembrance of me." ORE than fifteen hundred years had passed away, and the Feast of unleavened bread had come round again. M Throughout all the streets of Jerusalem there was a hurry and a thronging together of multitudes from every part of Judæa. In every house the rooms were being made ready for the reception of stranger guests; for, when the Passover was kept, each householder opened his chambers freely and hospitably to those who had no dwelling of their own in Jerusalem. Early in the day two men had come into the city to procure all that was needed for the feast. They had received their orders for its preparation. Meeting a man bearing a pitcher of water, at a place which had been foretold to them, they accosted him with the simple words, "The Master saith unto thee, Where is the guest-chamber where I shall eat the Passover with my disciples?" And immediately he showed them a large upper room, ready furnished. Then, during the day, they busied themselves in providing the lamb, which |