The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1901-04-06

hey, nnt " you are DIVINE you can nv.
jump on. IL won't hurt you. Angels
viii catch you. Your Father win hold
you. Besides. IN make you a large
present II you win. III give you Asia
Minor, III give you China. IN give you
Ethiopia, IN give you Italy. IN give
you Spain, III give you Germany, IN
give you britain. IN give you eli the
world" What . temptation It must
have beeni
The third installment paid for our
redemption was the agonizine prayer
IA 0ethsemans. As l sat IN that gar
den at the foot Of an old gnaraed and
twisted olive tree the historic scene
came upon me overwheImiBgly. These
Old olive trees are the lineal descend
ants Of thoae under which Christ stood
and wspt and knelt. Have the leaves
Of whole botanical generations told
The the story Of our Lords agony TO
thsir successors? Next 70 Calvary the
solemnest place in Palestine Is ceth-
semane. whils sitting there 1t seemed
a. II I could hear our Lords prayer,
Aden with sobs and groans. Can this
be the jesus who gathered fragrance
from the franhneense brought 10 His
cradle and from the lilies that flung
their sweetness into His sermons and
from the box Of alabaster that broke
~ his feet? IL this Jesua the COM
fortsr Of Bethany. the resurrector at
kain. the ocuiist AZ Bethsaids? Is
this the Christ whose frown 10 the
storA. whoss smile is the sunlight, the
sphng morning Hts breath. the thun-
der His voice. the ocean a drop on the
sip Of His anger, Heaven a sparkle on
the bosom of His love, the universethe
dust Of His chariot wheel2 Is this the
christ who 10 able 10 heal a heart
break or hush . tempest or drown 0
world OF food immensely with His
gioryf Behold Him in prayer, the
globules Of blood by sorrow pressed
through the skin of His forehead
What IN installment in part payment
Of the greatest price that was ever
pAidi
The fourth Installment paid for our
redemption was the savour's sham
trial. I cali II q sham trial-there has
never been anything so Indecent or
unfair in any criminal court as was
Witnessed 81 the trial Of Christ. Why.
they hustled him into the courtroom
ct two o'clock In the morning. They
rave Him no time for counsel They
gave him no opportunity for subpoe-
nainE witnesses. The ruflans who
were wandering around through the
midnight. OF course they saw the ar
rest and went into the courtroom. But
JesuS' friends were sober men, were
respectable men, and at that hour, two
O'Clock In the morning. Of course they
were ct home asleep. Consequently
Christ entered the courtroom with the
rufBans.
Oh, look NJ HIM No one TO speak a
word for Him. ! lift the lantern un.
I'll I can look into His face. and as nv
heart beats In sympathy for this, the
best friend the world ever had, Him
sslf nos utterly friendless, an officer
Of the courtroom comes up and smites
Him In the mouth. and I see the blood
stealing from gum and lip. oh, II M
. farce Of . trial, lasting only perhaps
IN hour, and then the Judge rises for
SENTENCED stopl IL is against the
law 70 give ssntsnee unless there has
been an adjournment OF the court be-
tween condemnation and sentence, but
what cares the Judge for the law? 'The
man has 70 ffields. Est Him de"
says the judge. And the rufsans out
aide the rail cry: aha, aha, that's
what we wanti Pass Him out here 10
usi Away with Himl Away with
HIM"
Oh, 1 bless God that amid all the in
justice that may have been inflicted
upon Us In this world we have a divine
sympathiseT. The world cannot lie
about you nor abuse you as much as
they did Christ, and Jesus stands to-
day In every courtroom. 10 every
house, In every store. aud says. "Cour.
agei By all my hours OF m~altreatmsnt
and abuse l will protect those who are
trampled upon" And when Christ for
gets that two o'clock morning scene
and the stroke Of the runian on the
mouth and the bowling Of the I'M
washed crowd then he will forget you
and me in the ~inJustices OF life that
mar be inflicted upon us.
Further I remark: The last great
installment paid for our redemption
was the demise Of Christ. The world
has seen many dark days. Many sum
mers ago there was q very dark day
when the sun was eelipsed. The fowl
at MONDAY went to their perch, and
we felt o gloom rs we looked at the
astronomical wonder. II was a dark
day In London when the plague was
a. it, height, and the dead with uncov-
cred faces were taken In open carts
and dumped in the trenches, II was
Q dark day when the earth opened and
Lisbon sank. but the darkest day since
the creation Of the world was when the
carnage of Calvary was enacted.
II was about noon when the curtain
began &c be drawn. II was the swing
lag OF . great gloom ell around the
heavens. God hung II. As when there
10 Q dead one In the house you bow
the shutters or turn the lattice, so
God In the afternoon shut the windows
Of the world. A 1t Is appropriate TO
throw q black pail upon the coffin as
II passes along. so Il was appropriate
that everything should be somber that
day a. the great hearse Of the earth
rolled on. bearing the corpse OF the
Hing. A mans last hours are ordi-
narily kept sacred. However you may
have hated or c~arieatured q man. when
you hear he Is dying silence puts its
hands on your hps, and you would
have = ioathing for the man who could
st,nd by o deathbed making faces and
seofhng. But Christ IN His last hour
cannot be left alone. What. pursuing
Him yet after SO long a pursuit? You
have been drinking His tears. Do you
want 20 drink His blood? They come
up closely, 70 that notwithstanding the
darkness they a glut their revenge
with the contortions OF His eounte-
nance. They examine His feet. They
want to feel for Themselves whether
those feet are really spiked. They put
out their hands and touch the spikes
and bring them back wet with blood
and wipe them on their garments.
Women stand there and weep. but can
do no good. IL Is no place for the ten.
d~er.hearted women. II wants a heart
that crime has turned into granite.
The waves OF mans hatred and Of hell's
vengeance dash up against the man.
Sled feet, and the hands of sin and
pain and torture clutch for his holy
heart. Had he not been thoroughly
fastened 20 the cross they would have
torn Him down and trnmpled Him
with both feet. How the cavalry