The Newtown bee., 1900-05-04
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 The brothers of our Lord thought that his unpretending life did not accord with his claims to Messiahship. ''If thou do these things show thyself to the world" Go up to the feast where the multitudes are assembled and do some great thing worthy the Son of God.
 We call such ignorance criminal, and 50 it was, but with the increas- ed Elight of two thousand years, re- vealing more and more clearly the life and character of Christ, can the world to-day boast of 8 much greater amount of spiritual understanding than it had when they that passed by wagged their heads and said: 'tIf he be the Son of God let him come down from the cross." Anthony Horneck's idiot slighted the pearls that lay in his pathway, and chose to play with pebbles instead. God has rained diamond promises from heaven, and like the handfuls left on purpose for the Moabitish gleaners in Bosz's barley fields, these gems of divine truth are scattered all about ug-but instead of gathering them up for the treasury of the skies, men, blind and ignorant, choose the things of this world which either per ish with the using or must be left behind at that moment when they are the most needed. AS Phocion plead for his unfor- tunate countrymen, go Christ pleads for those who need him most. The strokes of hammer thst smote the nails that fixed she Man of Calvary to the cross, come ringing down the centuries, saying 1T smote the nails for the sin-cur world" The blood that drips from those wounds speaks pardon and life for all who pass by. But like those who sat down by the cross, and watched him there, the great mass of men sit in their sins, indifferent as to what the outcome of their lives will be. They say: 'sIf he be the Son of God let him come down from the cross, and so relieve our minds of the perplexipg questions of his divin- ity. Let him clear away the mysteries that hang like portiers between the seen and the unseen" We don't know how to reconcile the ills of human life-the mine explosions, railroad disasters, steamship wrecks, war, famine, pesti- lence, and thousand other things, with the love of God
 AS TT IS TAUGHT IN THE BIBLE.
 There was in Rome an asylum which was preserved from ali violation by the oracle of Apollo; it was one of the first temples built after the founding of Rome, and was called the Temple of the Asylaen God, or "The God of refuge" This was always open to all who came. Here the slave was free from his master, the debtor from his creditor, and the mur- derer from the avepger of blood. When the misfortunes of life bewilder us, and the providences of God shake the foundation of belief, Hope Is the temple into which all, who will believe in Christ, may enter and dwell in safety. Hope, blessed hope, is the element by which the afflicted live, the anchor of the soul in 8 storm, the life-buoy which keeps man from sinking in deep waters, and upholds man in life when death knocks at the door.
 Are not the beat Christians tempted at times to question whether the ends Of life are really being shaped by loving divinity? Whether this business disaster, and that bereavement, whether this sick ness, and these burdens are all intended for my good? Do we not almost say .Oh Jesus, If thou be the Son of God come down and save me from these thingsn The Christians sky is never so thickly clouded in the east but that he may see clearing in the west. Pay-