The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-04-04

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scribes when he says, 81 live, yet not |,
it Is the life of the spirit of God that
dWells in me-" He stood there en-
bodied truth and life; what could he
have to say to those men down on the
plane of material ideas, of hate and
cruelty and creed blindness. Truth and
life, such as he had, made no appeal to
them. 1t was no more to them than
the sun is to the owl To that high
priest, stupidity blinking on his bench,
his truth was blasphemy; his life was
death to everything the mans sordid
soul knew or could conceive. So he was
still because he had literally nothing to
say to them. Nothing that they could
comprehend When he did try to utter
a few common words, they smote him
on the mouth, cried "blasphemer' in
his ears, and hurried him to PLATE.
When he dropped a syllable of truth in
Pilates ear, that rough, but kindly
soldier blurted out what is truth?"
When the soldiers heard that He had
been called king of the Jews" they
thought it merry jest, and, with rlbald
joke and laugh, they clothed Him in
purple, jammed a crown of thorns upon
Ills temples, put a reed in His hands
tWhoSe frailty might betoken the ma
turc of His kingdom) and cried Hail!
King of the jews" What words pray
could such lips as Jesus utter in such
ears that they would understand? Had
He not Himself said Cast not your
pearls before swine, lest they trample
the pearls and turn to rend you?" How
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bigots We're He knew alas, too Well
And so, 4 think, He came as near con-
tempt as such a soul can ever come
Not superciliousness for there was love
and pity in it. He could honestly pray
Father forgive them, they know not
what they do"-surely they did not.
He pitied them for the poor make
shifts they We're driven to- the shabby
excuses they invented for doing the
thing for which He was ready. He
pitied them struggling In the hands of
fate, foiled and fooled forced to work
the triumph of the truth they were try
ing to throttle. But He knew He could
not reach them. And back of all was
that sublime faith which had brought
Him all the way from Bethlehem to this
hour He knew He was not finally in
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reputation to the honesty of history.
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His virile, unshakable faith in the
Father. He believed that:
The universe rests on the shoulders of
love
love to limitless. deep and broad.
That men have renamed it, and called
1t God.
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hairs of your heads are numbered, and
He VINO feeds the spafro"s ana unts
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you can push mountains INTO the sea.
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Immortal love and Tatherhood.
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high brow soon to he married nv thorns
assume diviner majesty than when he
stands silent. calm before his coarse ae-
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