Arizona republican., 1892-08-14

utdNis iut AhONtshb VI ''hN''Ns VI | bread or meat must have thrilled the body with something like ferocity. Turn out pack of men hungry as | Christ was a-hungered, and if they had strength, with one yell they would de- | vour you as lion kid.
 l It was in that pang of hunger that i Jesus was accosted and satan said, "Now change these stones, which look i like bread, into an actual supply of | bread" Had the temptation come to | you and me. under those circumstances | we would have cried, "Bread it shall | bel" and been almost impatient at the | time taken for mastication; but Christ with one hand beat back the hunger, and with the other hand beat back the monarch of darkness. Oh, ye tempted ones! Christ was tempted. We are i told that Napoleon ordered coat of mail made, but he was not quite certain that it was impenetrable so he said to i the manufacturer of the coat of mail, Put it on yourself and let us try it," and with shot after shot from his own pistol the emperor found out that it was just what it pretended to be-a good coat of mail. Then the man received q | large reward.
 | bless God that the same coat of mail that struck back the weapons of tempta- | ton from the head of Christ we may now all wear; for Jesus comes and says: 'I have been tempted and know what | it is to be tempted. Take this robe that ! defended me and wear it for yourselves. 1 l shall see you through all trials and l shall see you through all temptation."
 But" says satan still further to Jesus, "come and will show you some thing worth looking att" and after a half days journey they came to Jerusa- lem and to the top of the temple. Just as one might go up in the tower of Ant werp and look off upon Belgium, so satan brought Christ to the top of the temple Some people at great height feel dizzy and strange disposition to jump; so satan comes to Christ in that very crisis. Standing there at the top of the temple they looked off. A mag nifcent reach of country. Grain fields, vineyards, olive groves, forests and streams, cattle in the valley, hocks on the hills, and villages and cities and realms.
 Now" says satan, "l'll make bar gain. Just jump off. l know it is a great way from the top of the temple to the valley. but if you are divine you can fly Jump off. It won't hurt you. Angels will catch you. Your Father will hold you. Besides, m make you a large present if you will. I'll give you Asia Minor. I'll give you China, I'll give you Ethiopia, I'll give you Italy. I'll give you Spain, I'll give you Germany, I'll give you Britain, I'll give you all the world" What a temptation it must have been!
 TRIUMPH OVER TEMPTATION.
 Go tomorrow morning and get in an altercation with some wretch crawling up from gin cellar in the lowest part of your city. No" you say, "l would not bemean myself by getting into such contest" Then think of what the king of heaven and earth endured when he came down and fought +Ne great wretch of hell, and fought nim in tho wilderness and on top of the temple. Dut Bless God that in the triumph over temptation Christ gives us the assur- ance that we also shall triumph Hay ing himself been tempted, he is able to succor all those who are tempted.
 In violent storm at sea the mate told a boy--for the rigging had become en- tangled at the mast-to go up and right it. A gentleman standing on the deck said, Don't send that boy up; he will be dashed to death." The mate said, "l know what l am about" The boy raised his hat in recognition of the order and then rose hand over hand and went to work: and as he swung in the storm the passengers wrung their hands and expected to see him fall. The work done he came down in safety, and a Christian man said to him, Why did you go down in the forecastle before you went up?' "Ah!' said the boy "l went down to pray. My mother always taught me before l undertook anything great to pray" "What is that you have in your vesty' said the man. "Oh, that is the New Testament" he said; "I thought would carry it with me if l really did go overboard." How well the boy was protected!
 Clre not how great the height or how vast the depth, with Christ within us and Christ beneath us and Christ above Us and Christ all around us noth- ing can befall us in the way of harm. Christ himself having been in the tenn pest will deliver all those who put their trust in him, Blessed be his glorious name forever.
 The third installment paid for our re- demption was the Saviour's sham trial. l call it a sham trial-there has never been anything so indecent or unfair in any criminal court as was witnessed at the trial of Christ, Why, they hustled him into the courtroom at two o'clock in the morning. They gave him no time for counsel. They gave him no oppor- tunity for subpenaing witnesses. The ruffians who were wandering around through the midnight, of course they Gaw the arrest and went into the court room. But Jesus friends were sober men, were respectable men, and at that hour, two o'clock in the morning, of course they were at home asleep. Con sequently Christ entered the courtroom with the rufians.
 Oh, look at him! No one to speak a word for him. lift the lantern until l can look into his face. and as my heart beats in sympathy for this, the best friend the world ever had, himself now utterly friendless, an officer of the court