Connecticut western news., 1892-06-30

 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 told that Napoleon ordered coat of mail made, but he was not quite certain that it was impenetrable, so he said to 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 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: Il have been tempted and know what it is to be tempted. Take this robe that defended me and wear it for yourselves 1 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 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, fiocks on the hills. and villages and cities and realms.
 "Now," says satan, "Ill make a bar gain. Just jump off. l know it is 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, 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" Whata 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, Il 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 assur- ance that we also shall triumph. Hay ing himself been tempted, he is able to suceor 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 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 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?' "Ahi' said the boy, "I went down to pray. My mother always taught me before 1 undertook anything great to pray" "What is that you have in your vest?" said the man. "Oh, that is the New Testament" he said; '1 thought would carry it with me if l really did go overheard" How well the boy was protected!
 1 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 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. 1 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 courtroom at two o'clock in the morning. They gave him no time for counsel. They gave him no oppor- tunity for subpoenaing witnesses. The ruf6ans who were wandering around through the midnight, of course they saw 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 ruffians.
 Oh, 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 smites him in the mouth, and I 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. Stop! It is against the law to give sentence unless there has been an adjournment of the court between condemnation and sentence; but what cares the judge for the law9 ."The man has no friends-let him die," says the judge; and the ruff fans outside the rail cry: "Aha! ahal that's what we want! Pass him out here to us! Away with him! Away with himr'
 DIVINE SYMPATHIZER.
 Oh! bless God that amid all the in- justice that may have been inflicted upon us in this world we have divine sym pathizer. The world cannot lie about you nor abuse you as much as they did Christ, and Jesus stands today in every courtroom, in every house, in every store, and says: "Courage! By all my