As every picture needs its background, so the joys of Easter require the gloom of Good Friday to show them in their true light. Easter is not only a revelation of life, but of life from the dead; it tells not only of the rising of our Lord, but of His resurrection from the dead. Hence this book begins with the Death on Calvary, with the last Words from the Cross as a background. These are taken as the heptachord of love; the relation of the notes...