The Newtown bee., 1900-05-04

sents the cross so long and 80 broad, and that it is so bountifully supplied with the broken body and shed blood of Him who died upon it, that all the world may sit down, eat and drink and be satisfied.
 WE FIND VERY LITTLE UNITY, TO-DAY, of churches of different denominations. Outwardly we touch elbows with each other, we march in the same line as Christians, while each church follows it's own banner, and one looking at the mighty battalion of churches would say
 "there is unity" But when we test the denominational spirit, we find 1t as in- tolerant and suspicious as it was iu the 17th century. It is now as 1t was.in the days of James and John, we are anxious to call down fire from heaven to consume those who do not conform to our idea of receiving Christ. If we find one casting out devils who is not joined to our com pany we are ready to say to such, ''you must not cast out any more devils till you join our church and believe as we do and keep company with us." The spirit of Christ Is one, and if we are Christians we are members of his body, and are one in him. The spirit of Christianity is not uniformity but unity. "Evange'ical Protestauts are united like the fountain flowing ever fresh and free from the rock: like the rainbow that combines the seven prismatic colors into one glorious arch of promise spanning the heaYena, like old oceans unfettered flow as it's waves rush iu all their ma jesty and might distinct ag the pillows, but one as the sea-"
 In sense it is true that Christ could not come down from the cross. The giving himself up to die was the con. summste act of his work in human re- demptien. This was the hour toward which his every step in life tended. That was the hour which was to crown his entire life-work with success. It was terrible hour to look forward to, so terrible that he cried, 'Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour; but for this came unto this hour"
 THIS PRAYER SEEMS SIGNIFICANT
 of some apprehension of possible failure under the dreadful burden. ssWould not the bodily weariness, the days and nights of mental anxiety wear away his forti- tude and exhaust his patience? In this coming COZ fiict with satan would he con- quer? In the garden he cried, ''If it be possible let this cup pass from me-" That cup with it's awful capacity for sui. feriDg he now sees as he prays for strength until the blood starts from every pore, and drops upon the ground. The cup is not yet filled; only compara- lively listle of his sufferings are poured into it; but Knowing what it would con- tain, and that he must drink it to the dregs put his soul in agony. Oh thou who earnest from Edom with dyed gar ments from Bozrah, wilt thou yet speak in righteousness, art thou still mighty to save. We shall see. Satan's hour was near at hand when he would dispute with the Man of sorrows as to whose kingdom should be established in the earth, and in this strife, Jesus would be taken st great disad- vantage, when having passed through the agonies of the Garden, the betrayal, arrest, false accusations, the trial and condemnation, and all of their attending circumstances, the burden of the cross with it's crushing weight, which caused Jesus to fall beneath it, all this would cause physical exhaustion as he came to pass through the fearful ordeal.
 Satan would use all his power and skill l to render the cross of no effect, and to l thwart the high-souled purposes of ] Christ in his redemption work. To this