Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-07-07

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THE GUARD AGAINST TEMPTATION.
bless God that the same coat OF mail
that struck back the weapons Of temp
tation from the head Of Christ we may
now all wear; for Jesus comes and
says Il have been tempted. and know
what 1t Is TO lie tempted. Take this robe
that defended me, and wear II for your
selves. shall see through all trials and
shall see you through all temptations"
"But," says satan still further to Jesus,
"Come and | will show you something
worth looking at; and after a half days
journey they came TO Jerusalem, and to
the top of the temple. Just as one might
60 up In the tower Of Antwerp and look
of upon Belgium, 80 satan brought Christ
to the top of Che 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 magnificent 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. know it is great
way from the topof the Temple to the val
ley, but II 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 a large
present IL you will. I'll give you Asia
Minor, I'll give you China, I'll give you
Ethiopia, I'll give you Italy, III give you
Spain, I'll give you Germany, I'll give you
Britain, I'll give you all the world"
What a temptation it must have been!
Go tomorrow morning and get in an
alteration with some wretch crawling up
from a gin cellar in the lowest part of your
city. "No," you say, II 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 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
at the 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 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 Christian man said to him,
"Why did you go down into the forecastle
before you went up" "Ahp' said the boy:
II went down to pray. My mother always
taught me before / undertook anything
| great to pray" "What is that you have
in your vest2" said the man. "Oh! that is
the New Testament, he said; II thought /
would carry it with me If I really did 60
overheard" How well the boy was pro
| tectedi
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 nothing can befali
us in the way of harm. Christ himself
having been in the tempest will deliver all
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
criminal court as was witnessed at the
trial of Christ. Why, they hustled him
into the courtroom at Q o'clock in the
morning. They gave him no time for
counsel. They gave him no opportunity
for subp@naing witnesses. The rufians
who were wandering around through the
midnight of course they saw the arrest
and went into the courtroom. But Jesus
friends were sober men, were respectable
men, and at that hour, 2 O'Clock in the
morning, of course they were at home
asleep. Consequently 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 friend
less, an officer of the courtroom comes up
and smites him in the mouth, and 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 SEN
tence. Stopl 1t is against the law to give
sentence unless there has been an adjourn
ment of the court between condemnation
and sentence; but what cares the judge
for the lawf "The man has no friends
let him die," says the Judge; and the ruff
fans outside the rail cry: "Ahal ahal that's
what we want. Pass him out here to usi
Away with himl Away with himP'
Obi bless God that amid all the injus-
tice that may have been inflicted upon us
In this world we have a divine sympa-
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nor abuse you as much as they did Christ,
and Jesus stands today in every court
room, in every house, in every store, and
says: "Courage! By all my hours of NAL
treatment 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
1 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 very dark day when the sun
was eclipsed. The fowl at MONDAY went
| to their perch, and we felt gloom as we
looked at the astronomical wonder 1t was
dark day in London when the plague
was at its height, and the dead with un-
covered faces were taken in open carts and
dumped in the trenches. It was dark
day when the earth opened and Lisbon
sank, but the darkest day since the crea-
tion of the world was when the carnage Of
| Calvary was enacted.
CRUELTY OF THE JEWS.
1t was about noon when the curtain be-
gan to be drawn. 1t was not the coming
on Of night that soothes and refreshes; 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