The Red Cloud chief., 1892-07-08

ton. A long abstinence from food re
corded In profane history Is that Of tn,
crew of the ship Juno; for twenty-thre,
days they had nothing 10 eat. hut thi
sufferer had tasted q month and Ter
days before lie broke fast Hunger
must have ~agonized every fiber Of tn,
body, and gnawcd on the stomach with
teeth Of death. The thought Of q NOR
sci Of bread or meat must have thrillct
| the body with something like ~fcrocity
Turn out q pack Of men hungry as Christ
was ahungcred, and II they had strength
| with one yell they would dcvour You as q
lion q kid. II was In the pangs OF hun.
ger that Jesus was accostcd, and Satan
said: NOW change these stones, which
look like bread. into nm actual supply
of bread" Had the temptation come 10
you and me, under those circumstances
we would have cried: BREAD IL shall
bel" and been almost impatient a. 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, yc tempted
ones! Christ was tempted. We are told
that Napoleon ordered n coat Of mail
made. but he was not quite certain that
II was impcnctrable. so he said to the
manufacturer Of the coat Of mail: Put
II on now yourself and let us try IT,"
and with shot after shot from his W
pistol the emperor found out that IL was
Just what IL pretended 10 bc-a good
coat Of mil. 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: ~
have been tempted, and I know what
IL Is to be tempted. Take this robe that
defended me, and YEAR u for yourselves.
! shall see you through oil trials and I
shall see You through all temptation"
"But," says Satan still further TO
Jesus, "come and I will show you some
thing worth looking at" and after a
half days journey they came TO Jcrusa-
lem, and TO the top Of the temple. Just
"a ono might 20 up In the tower Of Ant
werp and look of upon Belgium, no
Satan brought Christ 10 the top Of the
temple. Some people NJ n great height
feel dizzy. and . strange disposition to
jump; 70 Satan Gomez 10 Christ In that
very crisis. Standing there IT the top
Of the temple they looked Of. A mag
nifcent reach Of country. Grain felds,
vineyards, olive groves, forests and
streams, cattle in the valley, flocks on
the hills, and villages and cities and
realms. "Now," says Satan, 'IIl make
q bargain. just jump of. I know it's
a great way from the top Of the temple
to tho valley, but II Gou are divine you
can fly. Jump of. II won't hurt You.
Angels will catch you. Your Father
will hold you. Besides, I'll make you n
large present II you will. I'll give you
Ethiopia, I'll give you italy, I'll give
you Spain, I'll give You Germany, III
give you Britain, I'll give you all the
world" What q temptation It must
have been!
Go tomorrow morning and get into
an alteration with some wretch crawl
ing up from q gin cellar in the lowest
part Of your city. mo-" you say, 81
would not bcmcan myself by getting
into such a contest" Then think Of
what the King Of Heaven and earth en-.
durcd when he came down and fought
the great wretch Of hell, and fought
him In the wilderness and on top Of the
temple. hut I bless God that In the
triumph over temptation Christ gives
us the assurance that we also shall tri-
ulnph. Having Himself been tempted,
He Is able TO succor all those who are
tempted.
In n violent storm At sea the mate
told n boy-for the rigging had become
entangled Mt the mast-to 60 up and
right it. A gentleman standing on the
deck said: Don't send that boy up; he
will be dashed 70 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, 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 20 down In the forccastlc before
You went up?' "Ah!" said the boy, ~
went down 10 prny. My mother al
ways taught me. before I undertook
anything great, to pray" "What Is
that you have In your vest?' said the
man. 20, that Is the New Testament
he said. II thought l would carry II
with Inc II I really did GO overheard. +"
How we'll 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.
l call II a sham %trial-there has never
been anything SO indecent or unfair In
any criminal court as was witnessed nj
the trial Of Christ. Why, they hustled
Him into the court room az two o'clock
in the morning. They gave Him nc
time for counsel. They gave Him nc
| opportunity for s~ubpenaing witnesses.
The rufiians 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 morn.
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