News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-06-30

| shall see you through all trials and
shall see you through all temptation"
'sBut," says satan still further to
/ Jesus, ''come and l 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 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, ''I'll make bar
, gain. Just jump off. l 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.
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
alteration with some wretch crawling
up from gin cellar in the lowest part
of your city. NO." you say, 81 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 MIN 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. Hav-
ing himself been tempted, he is able to
succor all those who are tempted.
In a 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, 81
know what 1 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, sWhy did
you go down in the forecastle before you
went up?' ''Ahr' said the boy, ST went
down to pray. My mother always
taught me before l undertook anything
great to pray" "What is that you have |
in your vest?" said the man. ooh, that |
is the New Testament" he said; 81 |
thought would carry it 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.
| 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 |
| ruffians who We're 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-
sequantly Christ entered the courtroom |
with the ruffians.
Oh, look at him! No one to speak d
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 1 see the blood stealing from
gum and lip. Oh! it was farce of
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 law? "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 himi"
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: "Couragel By all my
hours of maltreatment and abuse, | will
protect those who are trampled upon"
And when Christ forgets that two o'clock
morning scene, and the stroke of the
ruffian ON the mouth, and the bowling
of the unwashed crowd, then he will
forget you and me in the injustices of
life that may be inflicted upon us.
Further, remark The last great in
stallment paid for our redemption was
the demise of Christ. The world has
seen many dark days. Many summers
ago there was a very dark day, when
the sun was eclipsed. The fowl at noon
day went to their perch, and we felt
gloom as we looked at the astronomical
wonder. 1t was a dark day in London
when the plague was at its height, and the
dead with uncovered faces were taken
in open carts and dumped in the
trenches. 1t was dark day when the
earth opened and Lisbon sank; but the
darkest day since the creation of the
world was when the carnage of Calvary
was enacted.
1t was about noon when the curtain
began to be drawn. 1t was not the COM
ing on of a night that soothes and re-
freshes; it was the swinging of great
gloom all around the heavens God
hung it. AS when there is dead one
in the house you bow the shutters or
turn the lattice, SO God in the afternoon
shut the windows of the world. AS it is
to throw black pail uponthe
coffin as it passes along, so it was appro-
pirate that everything should be somber
that day as the great hearse of the earth
rolled on bearing the corpse of the king.
A mans last hours are ordinarily kept
sacred. However you may have hated
or carlcatured man, when you hear he
is dying silence puts its hand on your
lips, and you would have loathing for
the man who could stand by deathbed
making faces and scoffing. But Christ !
In his last hour cannot be left alone.
What pursuing him yet after so long a I