The Progress., 1897-01-09
,,ov,ng1r ha,1,cu ashore. 4

-,or1n ana having 1t hau'ed ashore. Ana
n..ar his death the world rushed IN TO 'ase
al'9 ,.rantor,y of his goods, and the entire
IN ~ ".o vas tho garments he had worn,
ussn,no in them by night and travelling
- .ba,n by day, bearing on them the dust
:. ~ 4ha highway and the saturatlon OF 9
u e. Paul in my text hit the M K
sea he said Of the missionary Prince
49, vour sakes he became poor
rresdine the Wine Press.
nho world could have treated him better
80. nod chosen. 1t had all the means for
n,ak,np his earthly condition comfortable.
nnly few years before, when Pompey, the
.oneral. arrived in Brindisl, he was greetea
eth arches and a costly column which
calebrated tho II, 600, 600 people whom no
had killed or conquered ana he "us a.
lived to wear his triumphal robe IN tho
senate The world had applause for I'M
sar;al butchers, but buffeting for the
E pr;noe of Peace; plenty Of golden chalices
for the favored to drink out OF, but our
pr,nce must put his lips to the bucket OF
,ho yveIl by the roadside after no had beg
god for drink. Poor? Born In another
mans barn, and eating at another mans
table, and cruising the lake In another
mans fishing smack, and buried In anoth-
~ mans tomb. -Four inspired authors
iives Of Christ have been published, but
he composed his autobiography in most
comnressed way. He said, IL haVo trod-
den the wine press alone.
Poor In the estimation of nearly all the
nrosperous classes. They called him Sab
hath breaker, wine bibber, traitor, bias
nhemer anC ransacked the dictionary OF
onurobrium from cover to cover to express
their deteste ton. I can think now of only
hfS oSYy CO
-Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea
His friends for the most part were people
who, in that climate where ophthalmia or
Inflammation of the eyeball sweeps ever and
anon as q scourge had become blind, sick
people who were anxious to get we'll, and
troubled people in whose family there was
some one dead or dying. If he had purse
Il at all, it was empty, or we would have
heard what the soldiers did with the con-
tents Poor? The pigeon in the dovecot,
the rabbit in it's burrow, the silkworm in
Its cocoon, the bee in it's hive is better pro-
yided for, better off, better sheltered. Aye,
the brute creation has n homo on earth,
VI sch Christ had not. poet says:
If on windy days the raven
Gambol like dan cling skiff,
Not the less he loves his haven
On the bosom of the cliff
II almost with eagle pinion
Ger the Alps the channels roam,
Yet he has some small dominion
Which no doubt he calls his homo.
But the Crown Prince Of all heavenly
dominion has less than the raven, less
than the channels, for he was homeless.
Aye in the history of tho universe there is
no other instance of such coming down.
Who can count the miles from the top OF
the throne to the bottom of the crosss
Cleopatra, giving a banquet to Antony,
took pearl worth 500, 600 and dissolved
Nin vinegar and swallowed it. But when
our Prince, according to the evangelist, IN
Dis last hours took the vinegar, in it had
Deen dissolved all the pearls of his heavenly
royalty. Down until there was no other
harassment to suffer, poor until there was
no other pauperism to torture. Billions OF
uoiiars spent in wars to destroy men, who
WIN furnish the statistics of the value Of
mat precious blood that was shed to save
C9 .'Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesu:
onfist that, though he was rich, yet fol
g WI saKes he became poor"
The Holy Land.
Unly those who study this text in two