The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-04-20

Flesh and blood could not long bear such
drowning maa seeking some straw to grasp,
he came once more to where the three were
watching. Watching Alas, they we're
again soundly sleeping. Was ever lone
soul more lonely among men than the sor-
rowful soul of the Son of man?
Scarcely arousing the sleepers by his
brief presence, he withdrew the third time
into the shadows Hewould be alone with
God. He had said to his disciples at the
feast that they would leave him alone;
"and yet" he added, 81 am not alone, for
the Father is with me-" He now himself
sought such loneliness with God. He was
reaching the altitude of perfect peace.
The world and its decisions was receding
Its power for him was being finally broken
He was now completely alone with God
His earthly wish was swallowed up in sub
mission to the One Will. Not my aOiA,
but Thine, again he prayed.
At last the full benediction of God came
to him. The storm was over, the battle
was past. Hewas at peace. Perfect peace
was his. 1t will no more, for even one
moment, depart from his soul. 1t will
shine from his face in the Judgment Hail.
1t will remain when he is Knocked and
crowned with plated thorns. 1t will radi-
ate from his countenance when he stands
fearless before Plate. 1t will be only
little Swallowed, scarcely dimmed, when he
bears the final torture of the cross. He
has become perfect in his peace through
his sufferings.
3. The Betrayal into the Hands
of his Enemies,-vs. 4I, AZ.
1t is time now for him to turn again and
complete his ministry to the nearing end.
Across the intervening valley he can see
procession of torches starting from the
temple and coming down the Kedron slope.
He knows what it means! The time of
freedom left to him is short. He returns
to the three disciples; with them he returns
to the eight. All are wrapped in their
abbas and quietly sleeping on the grass
He sounds no alarm. There is no more
for them to do. SLEEP on n0aO, he says,
and take jour rest.
Some moments of silence pass.
The procession of lights is drawing
nearer At last he breaks the silence to
say, 1T is enoueh;. the hour is come. Be-
hold, the Son of man is betrayed into the
hands of sinners
The awakening disciples see the ap-
preaching lights, and hear the ominous
tread of the soldiers. They hear the fear
less words of their Master, A,fse, let as be
going; 6elold, he that 6etyaystA me is at
hand.
The story to the end accords with the
part now given.
The moral majesty of the Lord is notice
able through all.
His rebuke of Judas; his expostulation
with Peter after that apostles rash act:
his act of mercy in healing the wounded
ear,-"the miraculous healing narrated by
Luke says DR.. Carl Hase, "may be be-
lieved, since it appears suitable under the
circumstances; his question to the Roman
soldiers, "Whom seek YEP" their answer,
"Tesus of Nazareth ]" and his reply, 81 am
he,'-upon which, as John records, ''they
went backward and fell to the ground;"
his remonstrance with the chief priests
and captains from the temple for coming
against him, so manifestly Man of Peace,
as if he had been vulgar thief or robber;
his final surrender of himself into the hands
of his apprehenders, as to those who even
by their deed of darkness, were to do him
service his request at the very last that
his disciples might go free, all these
events comport with the truth that Jesus
had, in his unparalleled Gethsemane strug-
gle, gained the full peace of God, in the
complete submission of his human will
and wish to the One Holy Will.