Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-06-09

In battling That sin in our own
strength. So when we come to Christ
to ask for help to resist the evil pres
ent and to avert the evil future as we'll
as to wipe out the evil past, oh, then
the strong face of Chfist becomes q
tender, sympathetic, forgiving face.
Our Saviour's eyes will fill with tears
of joy. Our Saviour's lip will CULVER.
Our Saviour's look will be one of par
don and of unutterable love.
Christ's face is SCARED face mo.
no." says some one; please do not tell
me that my Christ's face is a SCARED
! face. l have always thought of Jesus
| face as the most beautiful ever owned
by man; l have always believed his
| face was as beautiful as the Christ
face described in the exquisite portrait
, carved upon an emerald by the order
of Tiberius Caesar: His forehead was
plain and very delicate; his face was
without spot or wrinkle, beautifed with
lovely red; his nose and mouth were
so formed that nothing could be repre-
hended; his beard was thickish, in col
or like his hair, not very long, but
forked; his look was innocent and ma
ture; his eyes were clear and quick.
He was man for his singular beauty
surprising the children of men,"
But, my friends, that portrait of
Christs face which was carved upon
the emerald by Caesars order has been
proved by the psychologists to have
been q description taken from a spuri-
GUS tablet. 1t was a forgery and was
not written until 200 years after
Christ's death. So, in order to find
whether or no Christ's face was a scar
red face, we must turn to the words Of
the Bible. Was his forehead SCARED?
Oh, yes; the crucifiers plated a crown
of thorns upon his head. AS the sharp
thorns were driven into the white skin
the blood must have flowed; the skin
must have been lacerated. Read from
Isaiah lii, IA, His visage was so mar
red, more than any man, and his form
| more than the sons of men," Turn to
the fourteenth chapter of Mark, "And
some began to spit on him and to cover
his face and to buffet him and to say
unto him, Prophesy, and the servants
did strike him with the palms of their
hands" After the agonies of the cru
cifixion could Christ's face be other
than SCARED face?
The Record of the Scars
And Christ's face is a SCARED face
because it is the face of one who real
lied the awful nature of sin. Though
Christ could forgive us our sins by the
sacrifice of blood, yet he could not take
/ hn chr,a ont ciy, CO ho
offered his own face to be lacerated.
He offered his lips to become parched
and bleeding. He offered his eyes to
become CLASSY in death. Yet the scar
red and disfigured face of Christ will
be more beautiful to the redeemed
spirits in the heavenly land than if
those divine features were without spot
or blemish. The scars upon his face
will appeal to US in the same way that
the wrinkles upon our mothers face
touched our hearts when she lay asleep
in the casket We looked at the wrin.
kles and said: THAT wrinkle came
when she took care of me while l was
sick with diphtheria. This wrinkle
came when my brother died. That
other wrinkle came when she was pre-
pairing my clothes for college. Yondei
wrinkle came the night | was married
and left home" Therefore to us chill
dren those wrinkles were beautiful be-
cause they told the story of her vicari
. ! Gus love and suffering. Yes, in HEAVIER
. we want to see our mothers wrinkles
: that came as the battle scars of life
while fighting for her children. II
; heaven we also want to see the SCARED
face of Jesus, which scars were cut in
to his fair skin while suffering for oul
redemption.
; When Alexander the Great had hi
= portrait painted, he made the arts
t represent him with his head restins
5 upon his hand. The emperor did THU
: SO that his forefnger might cover up
: deep scar which was slashed into hi
: right cheek by the sword of an enemy
: But when the Bible paints for u
/ Christ's face it does not cover up on
J. of the divine scars. To the Christian
S the most beautiful parts of the divin
: face should be the places which revea
8 to us how Christ suffered and died tina
!. we might live.
v The SCARED face Of Christ is an il
v lumined face. Have you ever seen
:, sad countenance light up with smile
Have you ever heard q little child burs
e forth into laugh in the midst of a Fl
# of crying-laugh when a tear is We
l. glistening upon the wet cheek? Wei
k Christ's face, though in one sense a sa
q face, Scared face, is yet an illumine
e face. 1t has joy in the eye, joy on tn
t, lip, joy in the cheek, joy everywhere
r when one of his loved ones has bee
d saved by the sacrifice Of his blood
l, There is more joy in that divine fac
n over one sinner that repenteth tina
Il over ninety and nine Just persons tina
It need no repentance.
" IIlumined by Love.
u If Christ's had not been an illumine
" | fooo tho litfIo obi16ron would not I,o "