Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-06-27
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-RtneAOtA >@4AAot HtfSS 10 We 49, "a
ance that we also shall triumph. Hay-
ing himself been tempted, he is able to
succor all those who are tempted.
In violent storm at sea the mate told
u boy--for the rigging had become en-
tangled at the fnast-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, II
know what l am about" The boy
raised his hat in recognition of the order
and then rose hand over hand and went
to work; ana Is he swung in the storm
the passengers wrung their hands and
expected TO see him fall. The work
done no came down in safety, and a
Christian man said TO him. why did
you go down in the forecastle before you
went upf' ''Ahl" said the boy, ~ went
down to pray. Ny mother always
taught me before undertook anything
great to pray" "What is that you have
in your vest?" said the man. "Oh. that
is the New Testament" he said; II
thought i would carry it with me il I
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 tho 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 instalment paid for our re-
demption was the Saviour's sham trial.
] call it Q sham trial-there has never
been anything SO indecent or unfair in
any criminal court as WINS 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
rufiaans 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-
Bequently Christ entered the courtroom
with the ruffians.
Oh, look at hint No one to speak Q
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 sec the blood stealing from
gum and lip. Obi it was farce Of a
trial, lasting only perhaps an hour, and
then the judge rises for sentence. Stopl
It Is against the law to give sentence
unless there he's been an adjournment Of
the court between condemnation and
sentence; but what cares the judge fos
the law2 "The man has no friends-let
him die, " says the judge; and the ruff.
fans outside the rail cry: 'tAha! ahal
that's what we want Pass him out
here to rs! Away with him! Away
with him!"
4 DIVINE sYNPArHZER
Obi bless God that amid all tho In
Is Il this Eoid We have di1ns SYM
pathixer. The world cannot lie about
You nor abuse you - much a. they did
Christ, and Jesus stands today in every
courtroom, in every house, in every
store, and says: Courage! By all my
hours Of msitreatment 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 al
life that may be inflicted upon us.
Further, remark: The last great In
stallment paid for our redemption wa
the demise Of Christ. The world has
seen many dark days Many summers
ago there was . very dark day, when
tho sun was collapsed The fowl ct noon
day went 20 their perch. and we felt a
gloom a. We looked st the astronomical
wonder. II was q dark day in London
when the plague was st its height. and the
dead with uncovered faces were taken
In open carts and dumped IN the
trenches. II 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.
IL was about noon when the curtain
began 10 h drawn. II was not the COM
ing on of night that soothes and re-
freshes: IL wac the swinging of great
gloom all around the heavens. God
hung it. As when there IL dead one
Ia the house you how the shutters or
turn the lattice. 90 God in the afternoon
shut the windows Of the world A II IL
appropriate En- throw black pail uponthe
coffin ~ II passes along. 50 IL was sppro-
pirate that everything should be sonber
that day as the great hearse of the earth
rolled on bearing the corpse of the hing.
A mans last hours are ordinarily kept
sacred However ron may have hated
or caricsturei . man. when you hear he
is dying Silence puts its hand on ycur
lips. AID ron would have losthing for
The mar who could stand by deathbed
making faces and scohing. But Christ
IN his last hoar cannot be left alone.
What pursuing him vet after 50 long a
parssit7 Yen hare been drinking his
tears. Do ycu want to drink HE blood:
They cnme MP closely. so thst netwith.
standing the daskBess they can Riut
their revenge with the contortion< Of his
ccuateusnce. They examine his feet.
They want II feei for themselves whether
those feet are really spiked They psss
cut their hands snd touch the spikes,
and bring them back yet with blood.
and wip~ them ca their earmenfs
Vosaea stsad there and veep, eut e.