The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-02


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and His mind was Coos. He took out
of His bosom His own will and wore
there His Fathers instead.
"One day He sat on the well outside
the city, worn with the journey. All
round about stretched the hills and val
leys of Samaria. The disciples had gone
away into the city to buy food. A wo-
man came to the we'll and worried the
Master, for he was tired and nervous,
and she was of another sort from Him.
No, woman came to the well and gave
the Master rare and radiant oppor-
tunity, for she was one who had not
seen the light, and thought that there
was no light.
1.-The Masters end draws on apace
He is in the garden with His disciples.
All other men are left outside Eight
of the disciples are left near the en-
trance. Three are carried farther into
the entrance of the shadows. These are
LEFT. And Christ goes alone to pray.
Hear what he says: Father. If it be
possible let this cup pass from me,
Nevertheless not my will but
Thine be done In the fierce heat OF
the instant, we see two wills melt and
| become one and the resulting will is
Gods. I ci1s these two instances mere
| ly to give you picture of His un-
| shrinking loyalty to the will of God.
| LET this mind be in you which was in
Christ Jesus? Easy to say; yet how
distant the goal. how steep the climb,
| bathed in what white light, that city of
| our desire.
Mind Picture of Jesus
THE picture that comes perhaps most
| frequently to our minds when we think
of Him. is of one going along the by
| ways OF that eastern country, touching
| the blind, the deaf, the lame, the palsy
stricken and the leprosy- eaten. The
multitudes seemed to arouse peculiar
sensation in His soul Whenever they
came thronging around Him these
words were used He had compassion
| on the multitudes. He stood on a hill
| above His city and wept over it be-
cause he loved its people. Let this
mind be in you which was also in
Christ Jesus
| eve have come now two thirds of
the way. Such loyalty to God, you re-
member: such love for man, that He
| was willing TO sacrifice all to please the
one and serve the other. What did He
sacrifice? Well, He contented himself
| to live in little Palestine, when the
| whole world beckoned. He could have
written such poetry as would have COM
manded men forever. He could have
drawn such pictures as would have
needed light for pencil and sky for can
yass. He could have unveiled for those
Greek philosophers. who sat in His day,
| the mysteries which they vainly sought.
| All the secrets of science were COM
monplace to Him. He could have WELD
ed such power as would have made
| Rome a pigmy:
"Do Won think that these things must
| have invited Him? Yet He was content
| to tread his narrow way. He could
| have all luxury and ease; He could have
sated His senses on hanging gardens
and silken sails and palaces of oriental
delight. yet He was content to be a
| man of sorrows and acquainted with
griefs and to have no place to lay His
| head He could have enjoyed the sin
less light of the unclouded presence of
God. Yet He was content to be made
sin for all. Loyalty to God. Love for
man And then at the last there came
what we have known as the physical
symbol of His sacrifice; the garden Of
tears. the Judgment place of scoffing
and humiliation, the weary hill Of
thorny crown and heavy CROSS"