The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-03-27

and went that night and performed his part and then went
home and died.
There is a wel-known in English history of a man
OF high rank who shot by poisoned arrow and the
physicians around his bedside sad here only one thing
that can save life and that for some we'll person to
suck the poison out, but whoever does it will die He
sad "Then will die At night when dozed off to sleep
his wife came in, sucked the poison out and soon
and he recovered There many in history
OF men and women too who have lost their lives but thew
have saved sometimes hundreds lives through losing their
That is the Spirit of Christ The way of Christ is
the Of esacrice all the along, from the begin
ming to the end Then they said eff He will come down
from the Cross we will believe Him." They told false
hood Friends the Holy Ghost considered all these details
before the time they ought to be of supreme Importance to
49,
The Light of Suffering
At noon when the had reached zenith and ought
to have been shedding his greatest light all at there
was dense darkness the land have wondered in my
own mind and heart as have studied this whether Cod
the Almighty did not have mind the gaze
of those Roman soldiers and others around Him. the
terrible agones of the of God He died to bear the
sins of the world At last through that awful darkness
a Voice was heard saying "My God! My God! why hast
Thou forsaken Me-"
he Middle Wall of Partition Broken
Finally the awful cry, the last words upon the Cross
1T is nshed and then the Savior died the veil of the
temple rent in twain from top to bottom Oh what
Slgnlhcant event! AS table after
pouring these words l said "My Cod believe the
Bible firmly than believed it, and love
You more than ever loved YOU because tell you the
thought with such mighty power 1t is all true.
You know that great veil concealed the most sacred
spot the face OF the EARTH the place which
entered but once year. There only person upon
the earth that would dare to enter it, for the presence
God shown between the Cherubm and there that soil
ary man from the holy place into the Holy of Holes went
to offer sacrifice for the sins of the people But there was
longer any need for the Holy of Hoies and the great
veil was rent in twain from the top to the bottom and Jesus
n n tO
proach the Father
Oh, there so many beautiful things in the Book of
Hebrews about this very point
"Truly Was sono of Cod
Then the centurion others that around were
greatly affected, and feared greatly saying Truly this
the Son of Cod" have wondered if the centurion
did not give his heart to God right there Who knows?
The Roman soldiers themselves might have given themselves
events in the moral world that you do not find them
panied by great events in the material world So when
Christ the second time the is to be darened
the moon is to be turned into blood the stars to fall
and awful things to take place in the earth and in the
Heavens When there great moral changes there
great physical changes.
Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus come to light
They were disciples of Jesus but they full Of fear
not After Christ was crucifed when the Apostles were
full of fear Joseph of Armathea who before his DEATH
boldly before PLATE and begs the body of Jesus the Christ
and placed it in his tomb and apparently the life of
Christ complete failure All the beautiful hopes OF
of light to relieve the darkness The enemies of Christ
laugh, and they say that is the end of it all, but
Could Not Hold the Christ
AS the first day of the week began to dawn, that
derfu Reconsideration place and the Christ
forth and for forty days He showed Himself
number of occasions not to the world but only to the inner
circle He talked to the disciples about THE KINGDOM and
day they talking, He parted from them
and this afternoon ZIoN you and have time to waste
Watch for know not the day the hour when the
Lord will Set your faces to the future and with
united hearts sing Best be the tie that binds hearts in
Christian love-" May God grant it.
Jesus, my cross have taken
All to leave and follow Thee; -
Naked poor, despised, forsaken,
Thou from hence my all shall be.
Every here who desires from this day forth to live
wholly for Cod God helping them, stand while the Con-
ductor sings of g" have heard my Savior calling
solo, and you will sing the chorus Let all stand (Prac-
caly all stood The chorus sung heartily first by the
women, then by the men, then all together.
After short prayer by the General Overseer he pro-