Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-06-30

arch Of darkness. Oh, We tempted ones!
Christ was tempted. We are told that
Napoleon ordered y coat of mail made,
but he was not quite certain that it was
| impenetrable, so he said to the manu-
facturer 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 Ee-a good coat Of
mail. Then the man received q large
reward
I bless God that the same coat of mail
that struck back the weapons of tempta
tion from the head of Christ we may now
all wear; for jesus comes and says: 81
have been tempted, and ! know what it
is to be tempted. Take this robe that
defended me. and wear it for yourselves.
shall see through all trials and 1 shall
see you through all temptations"
''But," SAYS satan still further to
Jesus. 'Come and l will show you some
thing worth looking at; and after half
days journey they came to Jerusalem,
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 teel 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 magnificent reach of
country. Grain fields, vineyards, olive
groves, forests, and streams, cattle in
the valley, flocks on the hills, and vii
lagos and cities and realms.
'Now," saws satan. "Ill make q bar
gain, just lump off, | 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. 1t won't hurt you. An
gels will catch you. Your Father will
hold you. Besides, I'll make you 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 temptation it must have been!
Go tomorrow morning and get in an
alteration with some wretch crawling
up from gin cellar in the lowest part
of your city. mo- you say, II would
not bemean myself by getting into such
a contest" Then think of what the
king of heaven and 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 assurance
that we also shall triumph. Having
Himself been tempted, He is able to sue
cor all those who are tempted.
In violent storm at sea the mate told
boy-for the rigging had become en-
tangled at the mast-to so 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: Il
know what 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 ex-
pected to see him fall. The work done
he came down in safety, and a christian
man said to him, ''Why did you go down
into the forecastle before You went up?'
''Ah!" said the boy; Il went down to
pray. My mother always taught me be-
fore undertook anything great to
pray" "What is that you have in your
vest?" said the man. ooh! that is the
New Testament" he said; II thought l
would carry it with me if really did go
overheard" How we'll the boy was pro-
tected.
care not how great the height or how
vast the depth, with Christ within US
and Christ beneath us anl Christ above
us and Christ all around us nothing can
befall US in the way of harm. Christ
himself having been in the tempest will
deliver all 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.
call 1t 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 3 o'clock in
the morning. They gave Him no time
for counsel They gave Him no time for
subpHnaing witnesses. The ruf1ians
who were wandering around through the
midnight of course they saw the arrest
and went into the courtroom. But
Jesus friends were sober men, respect
able men, and at that hour, 2 o'clock in
the morning, of course they were at
home asleep, Consequently Christ en-
tered the courtroom with the ruffians,
On, look at Him! No one to speak
word for Him. / 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 smltes Him in the
mouth, and I see the blood stealing from
gum and lip. Oh! it was a farce OF a
trial, lasting only perhaps an hour, and
then the judge rises for sentence. Stop!
1t is against the law to give sentence un-
less there has been an adjournment of
the court between condemnation and
sentence, but what cares the judge Tor
the law? 1.-THE man has no friends
let Him die, says the judge, and the ruff
fans outside the jail cry: AHA. aha!
that's what we want! Pass Him out
here to us! Away with Him! Away
with Him!"
Oh! l bless God that amid all the in
justice that may have been inflicted upon
us in this world we have divine sympa-
thizer. The world cannot lie about you
nor abuse you as much as they did
Christ, and Jesus stands to-day in every
courtroom, In every house, In every
cf0ra and save. ss('o,,ropai Rv 81 W, "