New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-04-15

only his friend, with whom he had walked and
slept and eaten for two years; man whose
divine nature the greedy, coarse Judean coulu
not recognize, but who had shown even TINS
thieving wretch how unselfish, pure and tender
a brother man could be. Il have sinned," ne
cried in an agony of horror, in that have be-
trayed the innocent blood |" and he cast down
the paltry coinsupon the floor of the Temple and
went and hanged himself.
There is hardly church in which sermon
will be preached to-day where the lesson VIII
not be urged that Judas is not the only man
who has betrayed the Lord Every one of us Is
precisely in the condition of this misery He
brew when he was tempted Into each OF our
lives has come that divine goodness, truth,
honor. call il what we will, which Jesus first
made visible force among men, ana when IL
now the only clcvatng power In the world.
Each of us, too, has some miserable passion OF
his own-avarice, vanity or sensuallty-which
urges us to put this saving quality out OF me-
rs far rs we have the power. When man
turns his back on honesty and decency ana
gives himself mp to swindling or drunkenness
or a woman goes deliberately away from her
pure girlhood into vile middlc-age, both have
voluntarily done their part in crucliylng the
God that still moves and lives among MS We
all know that We all know, too, when we look
at the man on the gallOws the drunkard on the
street. the Haunting woman, wrctchrdcSt OF all
living creatures, the price for which they sold
Him. and how soon the thirty pieces were spent.
These are common lessons We shall hear them
in the pulpit to-day. But let us bring the
matter closer. The matron in the pew yondcr.
1. LII. lt.ttt ,tF
she gave them 10 her Lord What honorable
men her boys were Ia be; what pure high
soulcd Christians her daughters, There are no
more inanc worthless fops abOut town now than
her SONS no yaincr or more worldly hlrts Than
her girls. How their poor mother strove ~
they grew up to dress them " in the styl &"
push them into Socicty. Could the admission Ia
that worldly circle. and those fine clothes, have
bccn Ivy price fof which she cruciicd her Lord
in the souls of her children it looks llk"It
Tp in the pulpit stands man who in hN pen
niles, youth WIS zcalou- servant of God, one
of those meek. holy and humble men of heart
who because of their rarity are rcckoncd higher
than archangcl-. What yapid, frothy words are
h, s,rmon, now. But they ill the prwN and
he poses and months dramatically. thinking at
his audience and seldom of the one who ais"
hears. invisible Are the salary and costly par
souagc which this fashionable audience pay
him bat thirty pieces of silver, after all What
has be- sold for il There are men who have
parted with Christ for little newspaper not"-
rrt, there are others who have killed IN their
church the meek Jesus whose name was love-
and set mp in hi, stead the yirnlrnt preacher oi
relentless creed which suits their own narrow
| i.,.,;,. ar , -fr,rl, IoctTlue. his
+, the price at which they value Him. Let each
of rs Judge himself; il Is certain that the man
in the pew and in the pulpit and Judas atar of
are being Judged elsewhere by the same incXor-
able rule.