The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-08-05

up from gin cellar in the lowest part
of your city. NO" you say, ~ would
not bemean myself by getting into
such a contest" Then think Of what
the King of Heaven aud earth endured
when he came down and fought the
great wretch of hell, and fought him in
the wilderness and on top OF the temple
But | bless God that In the triumph
over temptation Christ gives us the as
surancc that we also shall triumph.
Having Himself been tempted He Is
able to succor all those who are
tempted. In violent storm ut sea the
mate told boy-for the rigging had be-
come entangled at the mast-to no 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 III know what | am
about The boy raised his hat in rec
ognition OF the order, and then rose
hand over hand and went To work; and
rs he swung in the storm the passengers
wrung their hands and expected 20 see
him fall. The work done. he came
down in safety; and Christian man
said to him "Why did you go down in
the forccastlc before you went up?"
"Ah'said the boy, Invent down To pray
My mother always taught be before
undertook any thing great To pray"
What is that you have i'm your vest?"
said the man. "Oh, that is the New
Testament" he said: ~ thought |
would carry it with me il really did
go overheard. How well the boy was
protected! ! care not how great the
hcighth or how vast the depth, with
Christ within us and Christ beneath us
and Christ above us and Christ all
around, nothing can bcfall us in the
way of harm. Christ himself having
been in the tempest will deliver all
those who put their trust in Him.
Blessed be his glorious name forever.
The third installmcnt paid for our re-
dcmption was the Saviour's sham trial.
| call il a sham trial there never has
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 ut o'clock in
the morning They gave Him no time
for counsel They gave Him no oppor-
tunity for subpGning witnesses. The
rufiians were wandering around through
the midnight, of course, saw the arrest
and went into the courtroom. But
Jesus friends were sober men, respect
able men, and at that hour, o'clock in |
the morning, of course, they were at |
home asleep. Consequently Christ en-
tered the courtroom with the ruflians.
Oh, look ut Him! No one TO speak n |
word for Him. lift the lantern until !
! can look at His face, and as my heart |
beats in sympathy for this, the best |
friend the world ever had. himself now |
utterly friendlcSs, an officer of the |
court room comes up and smitcS Him |
in the mouth and | see blood stealing |
from gum and lip Oh, il was farce |
of trial, lasting only perhaps an hour,
and then the judge rises for sentence.
Stop. 1t is against the law TO give SEN
tencc unless there has been an adjourn
ncnt 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 ruilians outside the rail cry:
Aha! aha. that's what we want, Pass
Him out here to us. Away with Him,
Away with Him" Oh, bless q cd that
amid all the injustice that may have
been inflicted upon us in this world we
nave a Divine Sympathizcr The world
IAN not lie about you nor abuse you as
much as did Christ. and Jesus stands to-
lay in every court room, IN every house,
II every store. and says: Courage. By
Ill my hours of maltreatment and
Louse ! will protect those who are
ramplcd upon" And when Christ for
-cts that two-oclocli morning scene,
nd the stroke OF the ruilian on the
mouth, and the bowling Of the I'M
washed crowi. then He will forget you
nd me in the injustices of life that
nay be inflicted upon us. Z
Further | remark: The last great in
tallment paid for our redemption was
he demise of Christ. The world has 1
cen many dark days. Many summers {
go there was a very dark day when {
ne sun was cclilscd. The fowl ut noon I
ay went TO their perch. and we felt IA
loom as we loolrcd ut the astronomical 4
'ondcr, II was dark day i'm London J
hen the plague was at its height, and 4
he dead with uncovered faces were q
AIKEN in open carts and dumped in the I
'enches, II was n dark day when the I
lrth opened and Lisbon sank; but the q
nrkest day since the creation OF the i
orld was when the carnage of Calvary Il
as enacted. u
IL was about noon when the curtain I
egan 10 be drawn. II was not the '
'ming of night that soothes and re- c
eshes; IL was the swinging Of great =
Dom all around the Heavens God ;
ing il. As whom thcrc Is u dead one y