God has his agents everywhere. They are not known to ts, but are well known to him, and one word from him will bring them and their resources to his help. How many are unsuspected lovers of his Kingdom! Who would have thought that Joseph was waiting for the kingdom of God, or that he would have identified its advent with the death on the cross!

The body of our Lord was well cared for. They who commit themselves to God will find that he will make himself responsible for the body, in life to feed and in death to honor; see Matt. 6:33; Deut. 34:6. The new tomb was so ordered that there could be no possible mistake in identifying the precious body, and that the Resurrection should be beyond question. Love, which clings to the last offices with tender solicitude hastened to express itself with a devotion that braved the hatred of the rulers. Darkness and silence settled on the seenebut this was not the end.