The New York herald., 1877-10-08
NEW YORK HERALD MONDAY OCTOBER SUPPLEMENT-


unti the scenes OF that hour mot them in all
their vividness iace TO faco. That hour
foreign their thoughts, and they "rebukcd'
they with fear and awes,ruck. lis coming atmosphere
chilled their souls and made them shudder and they
became 30 Denumbcd that they could not compre-
hepd Him, when He took them aside aud said 10
them, - shall be taken, tried, condemned, mocKed,
scoarged, spit upon, crucned = Luxe says, "aney
amazed, he'd in awful supense anu could not iatnom
His meaning They knew notning:, but He knew
when that hour struck the whole moral universe
would be In an uproar and He would DC the centre
Knew ,nas a. 'no on TOR HIM and ,Ss.
IN It's bosom he would die. amid all that was brutal,
and because all moral energy would converge upon
HIN ils terrible moments He exclaimed, ''Fstner.
the hour come.n
1t was the tragic hour In which all moral energy.
good and bad, contended for mastery Not only was
II The hour o expectation but the OF
ton Hence He calls 1t Himself 'The hour OF power OF
darkness" With lis first beatings came The great
struggle upon which He ge-handed. The
current OF HIS thoughts struck deep awe into HIS
splrt which launched Him into the very heart o IT'S
anguish. This was a true priestly prayer which He
offered that He might be invesed with all the panoply
which tho desperate encounter demanded, ior
densty OF deep gloom and darkness casts tsef like
pail over His Otherwise ianguid spirit He excaims
'.My soul Is exceedingly sorrowiul even unto DEATH
tagonUm OF contest for the purity Of Gods nexor-
able throne and Of decision as TO tho moral relations
oil ali wordk
THE OLD CONTROVERSY
The old controversy between Satan and tho Son OF
Man was 10 be brought to an issue. Satan, the arch
captain OF evi, mad been stalking on the field lor
thousands OF years, awaiting, hrst, Christ's COM
iLg az the promised secd ana then the onset. Then
he had slain ''heaps upon heaps" III inc oattie-
ground WAS white with The bones OF the slam. Man
had become .aint and pale from fear that the promise
OF a deiverer hud been forgotten and buried IN Inc
slumDer OF ages, when, unexpectedly, Galilean
peasant appeared on Inc field, owly aud meek. like
"a lamb leu 10 the ughern There was no thunder
IN his voice, no terror IN his ioIm, and when Inc nate
ana howhngs OF men ana devis broke upon him, ike
q sheep he was dumb IN their presence and pro-
posed silence their dia0oca engnery by the lavish
ot mysterious love. hen the predicted hour struck
upon the bell oi time every league both OF earth and
hell appeared in tneir coniederated strength Christ
would have been put death long before he was
had ne not prevented IT, either oy escaping OF The
hands OF his enemies Or by restraining their wrath.
For whcrever he went murder lay IN ambush lor
him. II required almighty power TO baftio and delay
Til the predcted hour should arrive Tor the christ
30 lay down his lie This murderous spirit was put
under the lots and hindrances OF Onnpotence for It's
time OF action. Christ ior days and weeks walked
through paralytlc murder. Like terocous beasts on
the snuG OF BLOOD crouchng their airs Tor tho fatal
spring through the bars ol tho DOtomle5s PIT and
all along the pathway Of God incarnate. demon hate
lay peering from Dark ambush, win foam on us teeth
cleaning nell water from us eye But Almighty re.
straint lay heavy, like great nightmare on the con-
fedcrnte wrath OF earth and hell, holding down
TONS u asa should strike. Tho cowardaoe ot bis
earthly ioes came against the unarmed Lamb
..wth swords ana slaves, and tho whole rabbe tell
back when He gently rebuked them Tho demons
whom He mad cast out hated Him. and entered the
furious mob which clamored for His Infamous death,
Wnlte q Olm mysterious uOITOF uHeu uis Own coui
with agony, for HIS keen anticlpatlons graspcd tho
dire reality He knew that the bitterness Of HIS su-
feriDgs was inevitable and without alienation. Skill
coald evade them, power could not remove them,
pity could not soften them The cup mingled with all
bitter ingredients was thcre-lt was IN his hands
.thc cup OF trembling; 1t was full and He had gwen
His royal word to drink IL 10 its dregR Mystery in
morals be succeeded only at the cost OF Intense
sunerings His bodily torments were sharp, but en-
durable. Degraded persecution, wounded dignity
and innocence could never have extoret tho
prayer from his lips "Father me from this hour"
The bodily sunernss Of Jesus not the best inter-
prefers of that prayer sjust Interpretation is fear
fully mysterious. Human vocabuaries have no terms
express the pangs OF that hour Guilt, like noun
tain, lay upon soul which had never known Its
slightest touch The sensibilities oI an unstained
purity put In the place OF tho polluted as IL Hc
were set IN way against God. lhe Shepherd was
smtten the oil the sheep. The treason Of Judas,
denial OF Peter, Lords dsgraceful arrest HIS
scourgngs and mockings and bonds had all pierced His
heart but these were among The least OF HIS sorrows
The darkest moment OF that hour passed over Him
when tshe had trod the wine press alone" ana IN the
deseron OF HIS Father cred why hast thou iorsakcn
mes' That was the hour when all the penalties aud
liabilities OF sinful fell upon His substitute, when
the law and government OF God werc magnlted and
numbered millions rescued from the power Of
the destroyer