The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-07-08

and with the other hand beat back the
monarch of darkness o, we tempted
ones! Christ was tempted. We are told
that Napoleon ordered a coat of mail
made, but he was not quite certain that
1T was impenetrable. SO he said to the
manufactures of the coat of mail: Put
it on now 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 a
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 all
wear: for Jesus comes and says: 81
have been tempted, and l know what
ii is to be tempted Take this robe that
defended me, and wear it for yourselves.
shall see you through all trials and
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 a 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, ''I'll make
a bargain. just jump off. l know it's
great way from the top of the temple
to the valley, but if you are divine you
can fly. Jump off. 1t won't hurt you.
Angels will catch you Your Father
will hold you. Besides, I'll make you a
large present if you will 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 beenl
Go tomorrow morning and get into
an alteration with some wretch crawl
ing up from gin cellar in the lowest
part of your city. NO" you say, II
would not bemean myself by getting
into such n contest" Then think of
what the King of Heaven and earth en-
dured when he came down and fought
the great wretch of hell, and fought
him in the wilderness and on top of the
temple. But l bless God that in the
triumph over temptation Christ gives
Us the assurance that we also shall tri-
urph Having Himself been tempted,
He is able to succor all those who are
tempted
In violent storm at sea the mate
told boy-for the rigging had become
entangled at the mast-to go up and
right it a gentleman standing on the
deck said: Don't send that boy up; he
will he dashed to death" The mate
said: II 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? ALI" said the boy, 81
went down to pray. My mother al
ways taught me, before undertook
anything great, to pray" what is
that you have in your vest?" said the
man. 20, that is the New Testament"
he said. 81 thought 1 would carry 1t
with me if l really did go overheard
How well the boy was protected!
care 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, moth
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 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 court room at two o'clock
in the morning. They gave Him no
time for counsel They gave Him no
opportunity for subp9naing witnesses.
The rufiians who We're wandering
around through the midnight, of course
they saw the arrest and went into the
court room But Jesus friends We're
sober men, were respectable men, and
at that hour, two o'clock IN the morn
ing, of course they were at home asleep.
Consequently Christ entered the court
room with the ruffians-
Oh, look at him! No one to speak a
word for him. l lift the lantern until
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
room comes up and smites him in the
mouth, and l see the blood stealing
from gum and lip. Oh! it was farce OF
a trial, lasting only perhaps an hour,
and then the judge rises for sentence.
Stopi 1t is against the law TO give sen
tence unless there has been an adjourn
mcnt of the court between condemna-
ton and sentence; but what cares the
Judge for the law? THE man has no
him die" says the judge;
and the ruffiaas outside the rail cry:
AHA! ahal that's what we want Pass
him out here to US Away with him
Away with him."
o! / bless God that amid all the in
justice that may have been inflicted mp
on us in this world we have divine
sympathizer. The world cannot lie
about you nor abuse you as much as
they did Christ, and Jesus stands to-day
in every court room, in every house, in
every store, and says: 'Couragel By
all my hours of maltreatmenta and abuse,
l will protect those VINO are trampled
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