Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1892-07-01
tended to be-a good coat Of mail. Then
the man received a large reward.

thNt struck back the weapons Of tenn
tatiEl from the head Of Christ we ma
noW all wear; for Jesus comes an
says: 4 have been tempted, and / kno,
what itsa to be tempted Take this roll
} that defel led me, and wear It for YOU
selves. I shall see through all trials an
shall see y-n through all temptations. .
"But, sts4 satan still further 70 Jesus
Come aud I viii show you somethin
worth looking Vi and after a half day
journey they came to Jerusalem, and I
the top Of the templeN Just as one nigh
go up4n the tower of}Antwerp and lool
of upon Belgium, so satan brought Chris
to the top Of the temple. Some people a
great height feel dizzy, and strang,
disposition to jump; so satan comes K
Christ In that very crisis, Standing Their.
at the top Of the temple they looked Off
magnificent reach Of country Grair
fields, vineyards, olive groves, forests and
streams, cattle in the valley focls on the
hills, and villages and cities and realms.
Now" says satan, 'I'll make a bar.
gain. just jump off. know it is a great
way from the tOpof the Temple TO the val
ley, but If you are divine you can fy,
Jump of. 1t won't hurt you. Angels
viii catch you Your Father will hold
you. Besides. I'll make you a large
present II you will. I'll give You Asia
Minor I'll give you China, I'll give you
( Ethiopia, III give you Italy, I'll give you
I spatnr I'll give you Germany, I'll give you
I Britain, I'll give you all the world D
/ What a temptation IL must have heenl
/ Go tomorrow morning and get In an
! alteration with some wretch crawling ttp
/ from a gin cellar in the lowest part Of your
city, INC" you say, u would not bemean
myself by getting Into such contest. e
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 10 the
triumph over temptation Christ gives us
the assurance that we also shall triumph.
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
atthe mast-to go up and right it. A gen
tleman standing on the deck said, Don't
send that boy up; he will be dashed to
death, The mate said II know what
am about" The boy raised his hat In
recognition of tire 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 to see
him fall. The work done he came down
il safety, and Christian man said 70 him.
AWhy did you 20 down into the forccastle
before you went up?n nAhg said the bov,
i went down to pray, My mother always
taught me before / undertook anything
great TO pray" hWhat IS that you have
in your vestW said the man. rOhl that IS
the New Testament, he saidi u thought ]
would carry it with me If / really did 20
overheard" How well the boy was pro /
tected
I care not how great the height or how 1
vast the depth with Christ within us and 4
Christ beneath us and Christ above us and I
Christ all around us nothing cans befall /
US in the way Of harm. Christ himself |
having been in the tempest will deliver all I
those who put their trust In him. Blessed
be his glorious name forever.
HOW CHRIST WAS MoCKED,
The third installment paid for our re.
demptiOn was the Saviour's sham trial
call it sham trial-there has never been
anything so indecent or unfair In any
court as was witnessed at the
trial Of Christ, Why, they hustled him
into the courtroom at 2 O'Clock in the
They gave him no time for
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Tor subpWnaing witnesses. The ruffians
who were wandering around through the
Of course they saw the arrest
md went into the courtroom. But Jesus
friends were sober men, were respectable
men, and mt that hour, o'clock in the
morning, of course they were at home
'sleep. Consequently Christ entered. the
courtroom with the Tnfiinns,
Oh, look Mt HIM No one 10 speak a word
or him. lift the lantern until can look
ntO his faeg and rs my heart beats ia
for this, the best friend the
world ever had, himself now utterly friend
sss, an officer of the courtroom comes up Z
nd smites him in the mouth, and See the
Hood stealing from gum and lip, Ohlit
'as farce of trial, lasting only perhaps
n hour, and then the judge rises for sen
snce. StOpl Il is against the law to give
antence unless there has been an adjourn.
lent Of the court between condemnation
Nd sentence, hut what cares the judge
,r the law? "The man has no friends
It him die, says the judge; and the ruff
ans outside the rail cry: "Ahal ahal that's Z
hat we want. Pass him out here to us =
way with him! Away with himf
OH / bless God that amid all the injus- 4
&c that may have been inflicted upon us =
this world we have a divine sympa- !,
lizer The world cannot lie about you !.
Or abuse you as much as they did Christ, q
al Jesus stands today in every court =
,om, in every house, in every store, and
Us; "Courfgel By all my hours OF ma. =
eatment and abuse, I viii project those I.
no are trampled upon.n And when =
hrist forgets that two o'clock morning
enc. and the stroke of the ruiilan on the
nd he ffr.ra % 3 ..sa =
ovid, then he viii forget you and me IN y
e injustices Of life that may be1nficted y
ION us.
Further, l remark: The last great in n
allnnent paid for our redemption was the ~ ~
mise Of Christ The world has seen "A
any dark days. Many summers ago g
ere was very dark day when the sun "
u eclipsed. The fowl at MONDAY went
their perch, and we felt gloom as we
)ked at the astronomical wonder it was !,
lark day In London when the plague y
ls at its height, and the dead with un- =
gered faces We're taken in open curtis and y
mped Ia the trenches Il was dark Y
y when the earth opened and Lisbon y
ak, but the darke day since the crea. Z.
n Of the world was when the carnage OF
wary was enacted. -
CRUELTY OF THE JEWS ~
{ was about noon when the curtain be- =.
q to be drawn. It was not the coming :.
Of night that soothes and refreshes; It ~ ~
IS the swinging Of q great gloom all -
,und the heavens God hung it. AS II
en- there is dead one in the house you
y the shutters or turn the lattice. so
in the afternoon shut the windows Of ma
world As Il e appropriate to throw pa
lack pail upon the coffin as IL passes US
ID, SO It was appropriate that every- pl'
ng should be somber that day as tie se'
at hearse Of the earth rolled on. bearing pa
corpse Of The king tes
! mans last hours are ordinarily kept Va
red. However you may have hated or Of
featured a man, when you hear he is 20
ng, silence puts its hand on your lips. (
you would have loathing for the man ~
. could stand by deathbed making IN
Hs and soothing But Christ In his last ~
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