Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-05
The Man of Sorrows
Il Have Trodden the Wine Press Alone"
BY DR.. James B. Clayton

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OF Israes flight from Egypts hardened king,
Shone on the Man whose death had been decreed
By envous priest
The price Of blood was paid:
Religion. false in and deed. had planned,
And planning used a friend to kiss away
To death Religions Prophet, Friendships King:
And knowing this. He prayed alone shirked
The morrows tragedy. His troubled heart
Impeled His look toward heaven. whose starry peace
The Cross would Weld Him BY setting
Its ruddv glow enriched by stainless blood
To flow full soon from hands and feet and side
OF Him who prayed alone.
Gone the friends
OF yesterday the clam rous crowd whose bread
And healing, faith and hope. His hurried life
Had measureess supplied with never thought
OF selfish gain TO Him whose bounteous love
Comparisons overlooking sea-had filled
The desert heart with living streams of hope
No voice is raised nor hand outstretched to God
Or Justly deal with Him. Alone
The friends He asked to pray sleeping
The leper ceansed, the pardoned penitent.
The sick III every town where He had been.
Healed by His word: the blind whose sight He had
Restored. till seeing all anew Gods world.
They owned Him God the deaf and lame; they all
In other scenes apart oft speak Of Him.
But-He's alone
The mornings fatal scene
With envy, hatred, lie and scorn will reek
Hirelings with murderous cry will seek His blood
And Mercy only plea for Him will come
From neither friend; for Pilates wife
Alone in all Jerusalem will plead
he lust man NAV be spared and she in vain
Dread loneliness is His such loneliness
As man ne er knew: apart from man and God:
Alone.
The light OF the glowing moon through leaves
OF olive fell upon the sorrowing Man;
His face all dripped with blood in anguish sweat:
His voice grown weak in prayer: His eyes upturned.
Looking beyond the for God.
Used in yon Upper Room with His dear friends
(By fancys legend framed of emerald
Which fell from heaven with hosts of Lucifer)
IS symbol OF His costly, heaven-lke grief.
In this lone hour: the cup whose bitter dregs
Man guilt will press against His lips. with gall
on he eros
tie th1rsts and prays and prays and thlrsts
The
Grow pale and paler yet Judas and dawn
Are near; the dawn, fit emblem of that life
OF faith. and hope, and love, whose light from Him
Will stream generations vet unborn
In Fatherhood of God and brotherhood
OF man. despite the Judas first and last
Whose craven heart would sell the Christ for gold
The day, the day of days, the day of guilt
The day OF love the day of death and life
Breaks on cursed world and cursed deed:
The cup of mans niquity is full
The cup of sorrowing love o'erthrows
Alone
Alone in darkness felt: before His face
The mortal flesh has drawn veil between
Ills Father and Himself. But still He pravs
And in that prayer the sorrow and the grief
OF His unselhsh life is barred: for man.
Whose sins and woes have pierced His gentle heart.
Whose degradation. shame and hopeessness
Despite his lineage of God.
Yet lost to his estate and regal claim.
lis all for man, and not for self nor pain
Though flesh be wrenched till death sets free from flesh
His stainless soul. the Man of sorrows grieves
And suffers in the Garden on the Cross
Death could not Kill. grave contain nor can
His fame grow dim The Syrian stars that saw
Him pray in lone Gethsemane have waxed
And Waned for centuries OF sn-cursed years
And witnessed changes slowly make the world
The sharer OF His Cross and Throne in deeds
OF sacrifice and brotherhood His Name is known
From rising to the setting of the sun,
And in that Name the Gentes trust No more
The pallng stars shall find Him lone weak:
For like the sun that dims the morning star
And merges through the crimson dawn in strength
His light our life His love hope unites
Man to His God and sorrowng earth to heaven
III 1T s.tstt s..s.