April 10 - Morning Devotional "The place which is called
Calvary." The hill of comfort is the hill of Calvary; the house
of consolation is built with the wood of the cross; the temple
of heavenly blessing is founded upon the riven rock--riven by
the spear which pierced His side. No scene in sacred history
ever gladdens the soul like Calvary's tragedy. "Is it not
strange, the darkest hour That ever dawned on sinful earth,
Should touch the heart with softer power, For comfort, than an
angel's mirth? That to the Cross the mourner's eye should turn,
Sooner than where the stars of Bethlehem burn?" Light springs
from the midday-midnight of Golgotha, and every herb of the
field blooms sweetly beneath the shadow of the once accursed
tree. In that place of thirst, grace hath dug a fountain which
ever gusheth with waters pure as crystal, each drop capable of
alleviating the woes of mankind. You who have had your seasons
of conflict, will confess that it was not at Olivet that you
ever found comfort, not on the hill of