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Matthew 26,57 .6S-NOvember 27

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7VE cannot do better at the open i
O ing of this study than quote
the words Of Mr. Chandler.
He said: MANY remarkable trials
have characterized the judicial history
of mankind. The trial Of Socrates,
before the dicastery of Athens, charg'
ed with .corrupting the Athenian
youth. with disappearing the Olympic
gods and seeking TO destroy the consti'
tuition of the Athenian Republic, is
still a sublime and thrilling chapter
in the history Of wonderful people
.sThe trial of Alfred Dreyfus Is still
fresh in the memories Of men. Inc
French Republic is still rent by con
tending factions. His friends say that
Dreyfus was Prometheus who was
chained 10 an ocean-girt rock While
the vulture Of exile preyed upon MS
heart His enemies still assert that
he was Judas who betrayed, not
God nor Christ but France and the
Fatherland. But these trials, one and
all. were tame and commonplace com
pared with the trial and crucihNion OF
the Galllean peasant Jesus of NaZa-
reth" .. .......
In Defense Of the Jews
IT Is not for US to say that the Jews
were wholly excusable in their course
of injuries toward Jesus in causing his
crucifixion by the Romans On the
other hand. It is proper for US to con
slider everything that could be thought
of calculated to mitigate the severity
OF our Judgment regarding the injus-
tices there practised. And 1t is proper
also that we should consider what.
from their standpoint would seem to
be extenuating circumstances. Ihls
is everywhere recognized as Just treat
ment, The attorney. defending Grim
inal who has plead guilty to the
charges against him, Is considered to
do only his duty by his criminal client
when he presents whatever in the cir
cumstances Of the case would tend to
proye that the culprit, had cause or
thought that he had a reason for his
misdemeanor. .. .......
viewing the Jewish people OF nearly
nineteen centuries ago from this stand
point we get a more reasonable view
of the situation than Is otherwise pos
sible. We hearken first to St Peters
words respecting the transaction. He
said, ~ wot that through ignorance
We did il. as did also your rulers" Had
they known. they would not have kill
ed the Prince of life (Acts ill, l5-l7.
The Jews did not for one moment
suppose that the great Messiah, fore
told to be their Prophet. Priest and
King-like unto Moses, but greater
like unto David and solomon, but
greater; like unto Melchisedek, bu
greater-would appear as "a man o.
sorrows and acquainted with grief.
Although those very words were writ
ten of him by the Prophet. they wer'
hidden from their eyes of understand
ing by the glorious things related o
him in other prophecies. They saw
the glories. They saw not, under
standingly. the sufferings, To this da,
they interpret the sufferings of thei
nation as being those which will qlt
mately inure to their advantage, Tn
prophetic descriptions are not concer
fFated, nor COLLECTED, but scattered
"here a little and there a little" S
written that they could not be unde
stood at the time; nor were they III
derstood even by the Lords disciple
until after his resurrection from Il
dead, when he explained them, an
subsequently, BY the holy Spirit. e