Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1911-10-04

with another cry, "My God, my God,
why hast thou forsaken mel" He
who had said II will not leave you
desolate," was himself desolated. He
passed through the darkness that we
might come into the light. He suf-
fered the pain that we might obtain
the peace. He accomp lished atone
ment for us with God.
The unfeeling noisy mob was ST.
fenced. Trembling with fear, some
bowed to the ground. The women's
stif1ed sobs alone made sounds. To
each Jewish conscience came the echo
Of their Judean prophet. "He was
wounded for our transgressions. He
was bruised for our iniquities. The
chasttsement Of our peace was upon
him. With his stripes is our heal
ing. All we like lost sheep have
gone astray; we have gone every one
to his OWN way. On him hath Jeho-
yah laid the sin OF us ALI" Remem..
brance Of tradition brought before
them the scene of the ancient high
priest, Aaron, sending forth the
scapegoat into the wilderness, bear
ing away the sins of the people. The
infinite scapegoat was before them.
What does it mean to us? He
was numbered with the transgres-
sors. He poured out his soul unto
death. He tasted death for every
soul. He died for our sins that he
might bring us into God, and into
the fellowship Of God our Father
He wore away the sin Of the world.
So deep was the anguish of the Fa-
ther, he could not look upon his Son.
The suffering Of the son was so great,
he for moment lost the light of the
countenance Of his Father. God lifts
up the light Of his face upon us,
grants us peace. Being, therefore,
justified by faith, let us have peace
with God through our Lord Jesus
Christ"
Again Jesus spoke. at is finish
ed His head fell forward as the
terrible cry Of a breaking heart es-
capped him. His father received the
Spirit of His Son. The gaping multi
fude stood aghast. The Roman cap
tain was heard to say, "Truly this
man was the Son Of God" Finished,
his earthly life Finished. the con-
tumely. and the dogging from Judea
to Perea. Finished, the Watching of
his words, to take him unawarcs
Finished, the limitation by human
unbelicf and by carnal environment.
Finished, the loneliness and the sad
ness, and the forsaking and the be-
lraying. Finished, the dying Of the
just for the unjust. Finished, the
humiliation and the pain and the
horror
Earth is speaking with her thun-
der and flashing with her lightenings
Fhe mob is rushing down Calvary
liill--some crying; some laughing;
some beating their breasts and rend-
ing their garments, back to the
city, and through the gates, to find
the streets filed with the surgine
masses II is affirmed that the veil
or the temple had been rent from tor
to bottom. and that the mercy seat
ever hidden from vulgar gaze, was
now open to common sight. The
| crowds charge one another: Jew
against Roman, and Roman against
Jew; people against priests and
priests against the pcople-all fierce
~ charging one another with the
murder Of the Son of God! Such
was the fearful night in the holy
city, presage Of its destruction forty
years later, when Titus and his le-
gion razed the temple and burned
the city, leaving not one stone upon
another. So had Jesus foretold.
The holy angels began their re-
demption song. worthy Is the
Lamb that hath been slain, to re-
ceive the power, and the riches, and
the wisdom, and the strength, and
the honor, and the glory, and the
blessing Into the heart Of the fol-
lowers Of Jesus began to we'll forth
the joys Of his salvation. The spirit
OF Christianity caught the power of
the endless life; power with God