Arizona republican., 1917-05-30

them, and he himself went Stlli 1artner iinto the shadow.
 $ 'Tis midnight; and on Olives brow The star is dim that lately shone: 'Tis midnight; in the garden now, The suffering Savior prays alone"
 After the agony of the garden came the mob. He was selzed, and alone He went to the judgment hall. Alone He stood before Annas, and Caiaphas, and Pilate. and Herod. Alone He endured | the ribaldry and shame that were ! heaped upon him. Alone He went to Calvary. Alone He hung on the Cross. alone He went to the tomb.
 He had a year of popularity in His ministry. Great multitudes hung on His words. But soon came the period of opposition. The multitudes went away. Many walked no more with Him. Even of the twelve one denied Him and the twelve were reduced to eleven. One betrayed Him and the eleven were re- duced to ten. Then they all forsook Him and fled and he was left alone 1 Then the last shadow of perfect iso- lation passed across his soul' and He cried; My God, my God, why hast thou 1 forsahen me-" He trod the winepress alone. But I now turn to look at the other side of the picture: Alone, yet not alone
 Even in his eternity Christ is not alone 1 and my Father are one" "Glorify thou me with the glory which l had with thee before the world was In his temptation he was not alone i The smile of the Father was upon Him. and angels came and ministered unto Him. When in Gethsemane He knew the Fathers girding and when on the cross there was but the momentary eclipse for he exclaimed: Father into Thy hands l commit my spirit
 We live much of our life alone. This is true of every life It has been es- pecially true of many great and good men. This loneliness is often pathetic Enoch walked with God. That is great and blessed. But Enoch likely had lit tie human fellowship
 Abraham had faith that reached it's hand up through the clouds on whose ! bosom the lightnings flashed and i played, and in it's supreme confidence ,'lo hold of the pillars of the throne. put Abraham was socially ostracised 1 by most of the people of his day.
 Moses is much alone in Median for 4o years, and alone he goes up the mount to commune with God. Elijah leit much alone and we get a glimpse or ms loneliness when We hear him say.
 l. even l only am left and they seek my life to take it away"
 Dahiel was alone in his fidelity to 1od' when he opened his windows to- Mdro Jerusalem and prayed three times day, and for it had to go to the non ueh' socrates was alone in Ath- ems when for his lofty teaching he mnst drink the hemlock and scarcely voice was lifted in protest
 But It is not only the great and su- Iremely noble that live alone. Every He Is lived much alone Science tells us lhdl no two atoms touch each other. No two souls touch Ton do not eaa me You only see the house I live in
 m your inmost being you are alone
 me great battles of life are fought alone Like Christ we have to meet
 'eihptation alone. You go out into the
 wilderness as Jesus went. Satan tempts
 you Tn the hour of your weakness. Yet
 you are not alone. God is with vou
 will not suffer you to be tempted
 aDoVe that ye are able to bear. but will
 with every temptation make a way foI
 your escape"
 Jesus went out from the hallowed
 fellowship that He had had with the
 disciples in the chamber Where He ha6
 instituted the Sacrament of the Lords
 Supper to the awful struggle of Geth-
 semane. We go away from the fellow
 ship Of the house of God and from the
 inspiration of this hour, and we enter
 into the shadow of struggle. On, friends may go with us for a distance
 as the disciples went with Jesus in tn,
 garden. But we will have to leav, them and they may fall asleep anC forget our struggle, as the disciple. forgot Jesus agony. And alone vol will have to fight your battle. But no alone. 'I will never leave thee nor for sake thee. The angel of the Lord en campeth round about them that fea him and delivereth them"
 You will go alone when you embarl upon the sea of eternity. Your friend \ can go with you on the narrow cap \ that extends into the unknown sea, bu \ alone you must push out upon that sea t The islands that have common groun, eneath the waves of the sea- when the, E come above the surface to peep int ! immensity they are separate, alone; S ve may have friends about us and shar \ a common life, but when we rise to fac | eternity We stand alone. But you ar not alone: Yea, though l walk throug the valley of death I will fear no evi for thou art with me"
 The great cathedral of Cologne rise \ with the rest of the buildings, but b \ anu py dil tlit OtiltI DulIQI1lSS are Tel behind and the lofty spires alon mount toward God. So We live ou lives alongside of our fellows part c \ the time, but in the loftiest and sublim
 est experience of life We rise alone int \ communion with God.
 You will live your life alone in tn \ inmOst depths of your being in eternit, Are you afraid of that thought? Al you afraid of yourself You had bette
 be on good terms with yourself Ths
 is to say, you had better be true to th
 inmost voices of your soul, you ha 5 better heed the voice of conscience, tn ! voice of God.
 Tom Paine was afraid of himsel
 He would not be left alone. But alon
 he had to go out into eternity. ! Seek to so live that you will not l
 afraid of yourself, that you will not |
 afraid of your thoughts. The only wa
 of safety is to have your life hid wit ! Christ in God. and have your though . and the imaginations of your heart q :. brought into captivity to Christ Ar
 you will be able to sing:
 So long thy power hat blest me, SUI it still
 Will lead me on