El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-06-11

81. "And set up over His head His 40
ousation written, This is Jesus, the King
of the jews" It was written In Greek
and Latin and Hebrew duke xiii. 8s),
for 1t was and will yet be seen TO De
truth of worldwide import. Until 1t be-
comes reality in the eyes Of all nations
the world win never have the peace and
prosperity that are in store for her der. Ill,
II; lisa. tx, 6, 2; Luke i, 80, SS). Let us
be obedient to lisa. xii, 6, 2, and remem-
ber Ps. oxxii, 8.
SO. "Then were these two thieves cruel
fed with Him, one on the right hand and
another on the left" It is added in Mark
Nv, %, "And the Scripture was fulfilled
which saith, And He was numbered with
the transgressors. In Bis life they had
called Him glutton, winebibber, devil,
and in His death they would proclaim to
the world that He was naught but an evil
doer and a liar, and he meekly submitted
to 1t all,
80, 40. "Save Thyself If Thou be the
Son of God come down from the Cross. !"
Thus they reviled Him in His agony and
self imposed helplessness and made sport
Of His saying that He would raise the tenn
pie in three days John ii, 1920, not
knowing that they were preparing the way
for Him to do that very thing. He could
have saved Himself. He could have come
down from the Cross. But He could not
save Himself and others too.
II, AZ. "If He be the King of Israel, let
Him now come down from the cross and
we will believe Him." But they lied, for
they were children Of their father (John
viii, AZ and of the same stock as those
who rejected God as their King and de-
manded q king like those of other nations
Il Sam. viii, z; Z, 19). How great the
contrast in Nathaniel, who said from the
heart, ''Rabbi, Thou art the Son of God;
IN. L. - Tero 4 lob
43. "He trusted in God. Let Him de-
liver Him now if He will have Him, for
He said, am the Son Of God" Thus
they denied the Father and the Son and
rapidly filled up the measure of their in
EQUITY. See their word "now," they
would have 1t done now. There is much
SIN even on the part of Gods people in
"now, !" this day or week or month or year.
And because He does not humor them
they find fault with Him. This is neither
faith nor patience, but is more apt to be
self and the devil.
A. "The thieves also which were cruel
fed with Him cast the same in His teeth"
But one afterward repented and gave Him
the Joy Of faith In Him and went to para
disc with Him that day duke xxxiii, Al
tho love OF God to us Il John iv, 8; iii,
16), and about the cross is seen every
phase of the human heart.
46. chow from the sixth hour there was
darkness over all the land unto the ninth
hour" Possibly the reference In Amos
viii, 9, includes this darkness while point
ing onward to something yet to be fulfilled.
We know that God is light, and in Him is
no darkness at all Il John i, 81, and dark
ness Is suggestive of evil and Of satan Il
Thess. v, 8; Eph. v, 8; Col. i, Is; Jude vi,
49,. Even the sun refused to look upon
such q scene as its Creator suffering for
the sins Of men
46. "And about the ninth hour Jesus
cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli,
lama, sabacbthanii-thatis to say, My God,
My God, why hast Thou forsaken MeP"
and doings of Herod and PLATE and the
chief priests and others at this time, there
are but seven sayings Of Christ recorded
in the whole four gospels, and they seem
to have been in the following order: Luke
xiii, "a, 43; John xix, 81; Math. xvii
IS; John xix, 90, 80; Luke xiii, 46. One
suggests that they tell us of His love for
sinners, receiving the penitent, caring for
our need, the depth of His sufferings, His
thirst for souls, the boundless word, the tri
umph of faith. Another has said concern
ing them that they are deeper than the sea,
higher than the heaven, brighter than the
sun, and need not the lamplight of our
explanation. Concerning the one in our
lesson some refuse to believe that He was
forsaken and say that He only felt like it
because the agony was SO great My only
answer is that He was the Truth, and He
always spoke the truth.
47-49. His saying was about as we'll un-
derstood as many of His sayings were by
His own disciples. He was talking to God,
His Father, and they thought He was call
ing for Elias. Not much worse than when
speaking to His disciples of the false doc
trine of the Pharisees they thought that
He was speaking of bread for the body.
so. "Jesus, when He had cried again
with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost "
In verse 46. as well as here, Matthew
speaks of His crying with a loud voice.
This would not indicate the extreme weak
ness of a dying moment under such awful
circumstances, but rather confirm His
words elsewhere: "No one taketh My life
from Me-. I lay it down Of Myself" Some
say that He died not because of the suffer-
ings of cruoifxion, but because of a bro
ken heart, which was made manifest when
the blood and water flowed from His side.
It is finished. He is dead. His body is left
for Joseph and Nicodemus to lay kindly
away. He committed His Spirit unto His
Father and to His Father He went and
very soon welcomed the redeemed one from
the Gross next to His own. Where are,
they? What is it likep Why does no one
come back to tell us more about it?
Blessed are they that have not seen, yet
have believed that to die is gain, to de-
part and be with Christ Is far better
"The Union. In one hand the fair
olive branch of peace and in the other
the meteor flag of reluctant and right
full war. There may she sit forever,
the Stars of Union upon her brow and
the rocks of independence beneath her
feet. "-Rufus Choate.
I'VE are one country now. Dismiss
tcQm YOnr minda all sectional faalinx