The Newtown bee., 1899-04-21

will help to heal this open sore of the
 world" An, David, surely your monu-
 ment ie not marble, but living stone,
 formed of.the.bodes oftreed slaves tower ing .heavenward from the green sward
 at your feet. Must we not say, here, too :
 "He saved others; himself he could not save"
 And come with me to the form on Cal vary. Join not with the oppressOr, nor the hypocrte, nor the cynical and hard
 of heart, but come into the presence of
 Mary and John, and as Ee looks upon
 them, may his glance rest upon you.
 Will you try to read the secret? Draw in memory the sweet story of his life {; follow him over those hills, through the valleys. Do you see those crutches
 flung by the wayside? their owners need
 them nevermore. Do you hear that
 birds song? Once it fell on deaf ears, but now open to the music of the world
 Pick your way along that path for in it's dust lie sores fallen from living bodies
 now cleansed. Oh, who can describe GhlE D0G il J O0 Cdu bSG Lndl uEEd U1auS
 whole, try to pierce mlnds and hearts. Do you see Mary Magdalene at the cross? Once she was insane and haunted. Z4c- cheus must be somewhere near. He,
 once an extortioner, now fighting all
 wrongs, giving half his goods to the
 poor. Who is this that is weeping |?
 Why, it is the woman whom her people cursed because she was an outcast; but drawn to Hie purity as to tie light Of sunny May, after 8 storm, she kneels at his feet and her gin falls away in her tears. And he trudges on to Jerusalem, where good men love him, and evil men hate him. We shall next stop at that false trial. Some of you may be there to accuse him and judge him, and cruelty him. Some day you may see pain of your own causing. But we do not enjoy that scene and pass on to Calvary. Do you suppose those nails did not hurt? And yer it was hls soul that was most on fire. Only once does he cry out II thirst" All other words are to his father or to men. An, Tenderness" thy name is ''Christ." Do you see him forget him. self? It was always his way. He thinks of others. "Mother 1 go, but there is John." Mother behold your son, son behold your mother" He always listen- ed to sinful men; will he now? Yes the dying thief at last in the eleventh hour recognized his Friend, the Saviour, his "Good Lord, remember me when Thou comest into Thy kingdom" The cry of no penitent is ever lost on that ear.
 Yes, "This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise"
 Could not then this mighty one who saved others even while pierced there, deliver himself? Surely the power of God was with him; but Jesus never satisfied his own hunger by miracle, nor worked signs for his own sake. Tempted as we, suffering as we, anxious as we are, he would not now use means not possible to men. No, he went through the human life to the end until he could cry, ''Ir is finished" He had no advantage over us. Thus he knows that one can be righteous under all circumstances; thus he made plain his wondrous love, dying for us. It is not question of miracle. Only thus could he be our Savior-obedient to God, I devoted to humanity. Livingstone, Jane l Seymour, William of Netherlands, learn. l ed their lesson of self giving, fidelity, | from Jesus. Take all the heroes of all I the years-they do ''shine brightly till | the King be by"-then their light ia ioin- ed in His radiance as starlight melts in the glory of the sun at dawn. The Friend, Savior, s'saVed others; himself he could not save.v
 Beloved followers of the Master, will you not learn the lesson of these words Fl There can be no deep Christian life with out it's cross. Some of us might say, Master. come down, save thyaelf,'' but we have little understanding then of spiritual life. Love always suffers where the loved one is in sin. He could not come down. That cross had been borne in his heart long before he was stretched put upon wooden beams. We might say Christ came down. because we desIreI ,ur Lord to be free of this last cup of Iorrow. Then we underestimate him. He had gained strength in Gethsemane Q drink that cup. The only way to 'vercome his sorrow for shining world vas to ascend the cross, for thus he aayed N he world. Ah,brothers and sisters, you