The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1915-08-13
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Il f1!Al ILLEGAL
G. O. P, Gubernatorial Candidate
Addresses Deer Park Baptist
Bible School Class.

morning addressed the Glad-Hand Bi
BILE Glass of the Deer Park Baptist
Church.
He spoke in part as follows:
THE trial of Christ was conducted
by court of competent Jurisdiction
the court being known as the San.
hedrim, composed of the high priest
the chief priest, the elders and
scribes, numbering in all seventy.
! one.
"Of this body of judges three con.
stituted working quorum in civil
cases. But in cases involving CAPT.
tai punishment twenty-three were
necessary to conviction.
| "Altho Judea was a conquered
province, its Roman Governors, ac-
cording to custom permitted it to re-
tain its system of judicial procedure
The trial was under Jewish law and
in a Jewish court.
THE Judean law required a formal
accusuation before arrest, but no
| such accusuation was made against
| the Man of Gallilee. In all Judea
| there was no one so base as TO make
the accusuation, but envy, Jealousy
and fear made formal accusation
| unnecessary.
Reformer of Lowly Birth.
1.-THE Carpenter of Nazareth was
reformer of lowly birth and noble
life. He preached thruout all Israel
against the existing evils of the age.
Lashed from the house OF his Father.
He went about doing good always,
healing the lame and halt. striking
the scales of darkness from blinded
eyes and doing work with his hands
that all labor might be forever digni-
fed.
THE people loved and followed
him. And so. this man of humble birth
one day rode into the capital, and
around him thronged the people. wav-
ing palms while they shouted Ho-
zannas! From the temple he drove
the priests and elders and by speech
and action struck at the very door of
corrupt power.
This man stirred all Jerusalem
and the mighty trembled and it is
written And it came to pass that the
chief priests and the elders of the
people took counsel in the palace of
Caiaphas by sublety and craft and
put him to death
These conspirators were his &C
cusers, and at the same time His
judges. Fearing the love of the peo-
pie for Him and against the Judean
law. they seized Him in the night and
bore Him to the hall of judgment.
"Altho the sentence of death could
not be inflicted during the day,
Christ was condemned to death.
"Hisjudges sought false witnesses
against Him. but they could not agree
as their law demanded. They pass
ed sentence without agreement.
"Pontius PLATE. the Roman Gov
ernor had no part in the trial. His
duties were executive, not judicial. |
But the sentence of death could not |
be carried out without the consent |
of this Roman Governor, and in his |
hands there lay the power of par
don.
"Pilate knew that the man who |
was the object of His judges envy,
of their jealous fear, and this &C
counts largely for his vacillations.
Altho it is not given in the books of
the Bible, l know that to the judg-
ment hall came Mary, the Mother
and Mary Magdalene and the woman
who washed his feet in tears and
dried them in the tresses of her hair
Cry At Mob.
believe too, there came the bro
Tiers of the condemned that in child
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nestled against the breast of the
same mother, and that all with
hearts and voices stricken
with anguish implored His pardon.
but PLATE had little duty save :
hat of executing the sentence of the
,ourt. and yet. in desperation, as be-
ieve. trusting to the people, he Of
'ered to release the King of the Jews
Or the robber Barabbas, but even
against this lone chance the powers
lad provided. and the mob cried, Re
ease unto US Barabbas.'
This cry, as always, came from
he mob. II came before this great
rial and has been coming. and will
,ome always, perhaps. Release unto I
is the false. the make-believe. the
ham. the friend of our enemies, the
DOL of our betrayer. but cruelty him +,
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