Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-04-03
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Of mai, Then the man received large
reward.
bless God that the same coat of mail
| that struck back the weapons of telupta-
tion from the head Of Christ we may now
all wear for Jesus GENES and says. Il
| have been tempted. and / know what it
I is to be tempted. Take this robe that
defended me- and Wear it for yourselves
! shall sc you through all trials and
/ shall S,e yon through all temptation"
The Temptation of Jesus
BIS, says satan still further 10 Jesus
/ come, AMI Will show You something
worth looking at And after a half days
Journey they came to Jerusalem and to
the II Of the temple. Just as one might
70 up in the tower of Antwerp aud look
off upon Belgium. so satan brought
Christ to the top of the temple. Stme
people at a great height feel Dizzy and a
strange disposition TO jump. So satan
/ comes to Christ in that very crisis. StanC-
ing there at the top of the temple, they
looked off \ magnificent reach Of coun-
try. Grain fields, vineyards, olive groves,
| forests apd streams, cattle in the valley,
iocks fa the hills and villages and cities
and realms. Now" says satan, IN
make a Ddrgain. just Jump off, know
it is great way from the top OF the
| temple to the valley. but if you are divine
you can fly. Jump off. 1t won't hurt yoa.
Ans els will catch you. Your Father i'll
hold you. Besides. I'll make You "a large
present if You will. I'll give you Asia
Minor, I'll give you China, I'll give you
Ethiopia. I'll give you Italy, III give you
Spain, III give you Germany, I'll give
YOU Britain, I'll give you all the world. :"
What a temptation it must have been.
Go tomorrow morning and get in an
alteration with some wretch crawling
up from a gin cellar in the lowest part of
you. city. NO" you say, Il would not
bemean myself by getting into such a
contest" Then think of what the King of
heaven<and earth endured when he came
down and fought the great wretch of he'll
and fought him in the wilderness and on
| top of the temple. But bless God that in
! the triumph over temptation Christ gives
us the assurance that we also shall tri-
umph. Having himself been tempted, he
| is able to Succor all those who are tempt
| ed.
! In a violent storm at sea the mate told
boy-for the rigging had become en-
! tangled in The mast--to go up aud right
it. \ gentleman standing IN the deck
said: Don't send that boy up. He will
be dashed to DEATH The mate said. Il
! know what | am about" The boy raised
his hat in recognition Of the order and
! then rose hand over hand and went to
work, and as he swung in the storm
the passengers wrung their hands and
| expected to see him fall. The work done,
he came down in safety, and a Christian
man said to him, why did you 30 down
| in the foreeastle before you went up?'
All" said the boy, Il went down to
| pray, My mother always taHgh- me
before / undertook anything great to
! pray" ''What is that you have in your
vest?" oh, that is the New Testament
he said. Il thought | would carry it
with me if | really did so overheard .
| How well the boy was protected. | care
| not how great the height or how vast
| the depth, with Christ within us ard
| Christ beneath us and Christ above us
and Christ I'll around us nothing can be-
! fall us in the way of harm. Christ him
| self, having been in the tempest. will de-
| liver all those who put their trust in him
| Blessed be his glorious name forever.
The Agony - Gethsemane.
/ The third instalIment paid for our re-
| demptiOn was the agoniZing prayer in
| GethSemane. As | sat in that garden at
| the Dot of an old gnarled and twisted
| olive tree the historic scene came upon
me overwhelmingly. These old olive trees
| are the lineal descendants of those under
| which Christ stood and wept and knelt
| Have the leaves of whole botanical gem
| erations told the story of our Lords ag-
ony TO their successors? Next to Cal
vary the solemnest place in Palestine is
| Gethsemane. While sitting there 1t seem
| ed as il | could hear our Lords prayer,
| laden with sobs and groans. Can this
| be the Jesus who gathered fragrance
| from the frankincense brought to his
| cradle and from the lilies that flung their
sweetness into his sermons and from the
| box of alabaster that broke at his feet
Is this Jesus the comforter of Bethany.
| the resurrector of Main, the oculist at
/ Bethsaida? Is this the Christ whose
| frown Is the storm, who's smile is the
| sunlight. the spring morning his breath.
| the thunder his v>ice, the ocean a drop ON
the tip of his finger, heaven a sparkle on
| the bosom of his love. the universe the
! dust of his chariot wheel? Is this the
| Christ who is able to heal hearthreak
or hush a tempest or drown a worlC or
flood immensely with his glory? Behold
| him in prayer, the slobules of blood by
| sorrow pressed through the skin of his
forehead. What an installment IN art
| payment of the greatest price that vas
! ever paid,
The fourth iustallment paid for our re-
| demption was the Saviour's sham trial.
| | call it Il sham trial-fhere has never
/ been anything so indecent or unfair in
any criminal court as was witnessed at
! the trial of Christ. Why, they hustled
! him into the court room at O'Clock in
1 the morning They gave him no time for
counsel They gave him no opportunity
for subpoenaing witnesses. The rutIians
! who were wandering around through the
/ midnight, of course they saw the arrest
and went into the court room. But Jesus
! friends were sober men. were respectable
| men. and at that hour, o'clock in the
morning. of course they were at home
! asleep. Consequently Christ entered the
| court room with the rufIians.
: Oh, look at him. No cne to % 81, a
word for him. | lift t!ie lantern until /
| can look into his race, and as my heart
! beats in sympathy FOR this. the best
friend the world ever had, himself now
! utterly friendless. an officer Of the court
room comes up aud snnitcs him in the
mouth, and | see the blood stealing from
/ gum asd lip. Oh. it was a farce OF a
/ trial, lasting only perhaps an hour, AMI
/ then the judge rises FOR sentence, Stop,
/ Ii is against the Law 10 give sentence I'M