Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-07-02

| AOOh AAhC AhbO
of bread" Had the temptation come Il
you and me, under those circumstance
we would have cried: Bread it shall
bel" and. been almost impatient ut the
time taken for mastication, but Christ
with one hand beat back the hunger
and with the other hand beat back the
monarch of darkness. o, ye tempted
ones! Christ was tempted. We are told
that Napoleon ordered coat of mai
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 now yourself and let us try it, y
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 a
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 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 you through all trials and l
shall see you through all temptation"
But" says Satan still further to
Jesus, ''come and l will show You some
thing worth looking at" and after n
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
nificent reach of country. Grain fields,
vineyards, olive groves, forests and
streams, cattle in the valley, tlocks on
the hills, and villages and cities and
realms Now" says Satan, 'T'll make
a bargain. Just jump off. / know it's
n 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 IL you will. 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 n temptation it must
have been!
Go tomorrow morning and get into
an alteration with some wretch crawl
ing up from gin cellar in the lowest
part of your city. No" you say. Il
would not bemean myself by getting
into such n contest" Then think of
what the King of Heaven and earth en-
dured 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
over temptation Christ gives
us the assurance that we also shall tri-
umph. Having Himself been tempted,
He is able to succor all those who are
tempted
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 ut
the trial of Christ. Why, they hustled
Him into the court room at two o'clock
in the morning. They gave Him no
time for counsel. They gave Him no
for subpenaing witnesses.
The rufians 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
1t that hour, two o'clock in the morn
ng, of course they were at home asleep.
Christ entered the court
Dom with the ruffians.
Oh, look at him! No one to speak a
word for him. lift the lantern until /
an 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 |
Dom comes up and smites him in the
mouth, and l see the blood stealing
rom gum and lip. Oh! it was farce of
/ trial, lasting only perhaps an hour,
md then the Judge rises for sentence.
Stop! 1t is against the law to give SEN
,ence unless there has been an adjourn
nent of the court between condemna-
ion and sentence; but what cares the
udge for the law? "The man has no
him die" says the judge;
Ind the ruffians outside the rail cry: |
'Ahal aha! that's what we want. Pass
lin out here to us. Away with him.
Away with him."
o! l bless God that amid all the in
Justice that may have been inflicted up
IN us in this world we have divine
The world cannot lie
lbout you nor abuse you as much as !
hey did Christ, and Jesus stands to-day |
n every court room, in every house, in
very store, and says: Courage! BY |
Ill 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 |