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AS A BLAsPHEMER
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aviied not again. Peter 22J
ings OF the Body of Bhrist" began
tie sunerngs OF the Church, which
is Ills Body"-filling up the measure
OF the AFFECTIONS OF Christ, which are
behind iCOlOssiGns /, 24. As soon
as the Church. the Body OF Christ"
shall have finished the bearing of the
cross. after Him, following I'm Ills
steps 10 the end of the Journey. then
the Kingdom glories will be ushered
in. lsrael's blindness will be turned
away and the blessing OF the Lord
viii begin TO oil tho whole earth
The Jews, who caused the cruel
hxion OF Jesus. certainly did so in
much the same spirit which led ST.
Paul-thon Saul OF Tarsus--to cause
the stoning OF ST. Stephen. AS Saul
was forgiven. so Israel is TO be for
given; as the Scriptures declare, The
Lord will pour upon them the spirit
OF prayer and supplication." and then
they Will see, with the eyes of their
understanding. Him whom they
pierced and they will all mourn Tor
Him (Iechariah xii 100, and their
mourning will be turned into JOY: for.
as Joseph forgaye his brethren, SO
will this great antltypical Joseph OF
the throne OF earth freely forgive
those who caused His crucifxion
Politics and Selfishness as Religion.
The Jews are not so different from
other people now, nor were they then
History indicates that some of their
highest offices were held by irrelig-
ionists for their political influence.
thus the chief-priests at the first adj
vent of our Lord, was a Sadducee,
who wholly disbelieved in the prom
ises OF God 10 Israel, including dis
belief In the resurrection OF the dead
Similarly today there are high.priests,
both amongst Jews and Christians.
who disbelieve. and yet hold high po-
sitions. Amongst Christians there
are ID. D.'s who are unbelievers and
many OF the most notable rabbis
amongst the Jews also declare them
selves thorough unbelievers. We are
not claiming that such unbelieving
Christians and Jewish ministers
would lightly espouse and support an
unjust procedure against an innocent
man. We do not know about this. 1t
has yet TO be tested, perhaps We
do know, however, that when faith
in a Divine Revelation and in a Di-
vine supervision OF human affairs is
lost the natural effect is that the los
ers OF the faith become more and
more POLICEMEN and consider policy
the extreme OF human wisdom par
ticularly in. the guidance of affairs of
Church and State
Taking history for il that the lead
ers of Judaism at the time OF our
Lord were higher critical unbelieYers
(Sadduceesl, We can readily see that
their policy was TO curry favor with
the Roman emperor and TO seek 10
hold the common people in subjec-
ton to themselves. To these. then. It
must have seemed almost a calamity
that a poor man, although OF noble |
birth. of the family OF David and the
Tribe Of Judah. should gather about
Him a handful of noudescript fisher
men, taggatherers. etc; that Hel
should pronounce Himself a king and
declare the setting up OF His Kingdom
TO be near. and that by the exercise
of some supernatural power for the
healing of their diseases He should
attract the common people" to His
standard, but not the learned We
can we'll imagine their reasoning that,
If this thing. the popularity OF Jesus,
continued to increase, II would short
ly reach tho ears of the Roman EN-.
peror and then all their claims for
imperial favors would be discounted
and they would be rated as a nation
OF rebels
The riding OF Jesus into Jerusalem,
just before the Passover. on an ass,
after the manner OF The kings of Is-
rael and surrounded by a multitude
shouting "Iosanna TO the Son OF
David who cometh in the name of the
Lord" capped the climax, so TO speak.
and convinced these unbelieving
Jews, politicians, occupying religious
Offices. that IL would be far better
that one innocent man should die
than that the whole nation should be
turned into turmoil and wrecked by
the Romans in consequence How
many American preachers, judges, Of
fcials. ETC., would in this enlightened
day be inclined similarly TO decide
such a matter! And is not this the
policy which always prevails in mon
arches? Fancy such a commotion i'm
the capital OF Germany, Italy, France,