Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1919-05-08

has written down just what he de-
signed should become a part of Holy
Scripture-nothing more and nothing
1ess-sO that, wherever this story
should be told, these things that trans
pired at the cross should be told In
connection with it.
And the first thing written here is
the epitome of all that follows: A
crown of thornS upon that holy head!
Last King of David's line to be crown
ed in Jerusalem, yet no royal diadem
adorns his brow the time for the dia-
denis has not yet come and the thorns
are the price he must pay for these
In a holy symbolism we are to listen
to the story our God joys to tell,
and which he takes every occasion to
tell, though men are so slow to hear.
We turn back to the opening chapters
of the Bible and there, in Genesis 3.
we learn what the symbolism is. There
we hear God pronouncing curse up
on creation because of sin, and this is
what he says: Cursed is the ground
for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat
of it all the days of thy life; thorns
also and thistles shall it bring forth
unto thee i. in the sweat of thy
face shalt thou eat bread, till thou re-
turn unto the ground for dust
thou art and unto dust shalt thou re-
turn This curse abides upon all ere
alton still and it is written that 1.-THE
whole creation groaneth and travail
eth in pain together until now"
a famous musician has declared
that all the sounds of nature are in
the minor key and that all the animals
so express themselves. We speak of
the 'sighing'' of the wind and the
moaning of the sea. All, it is ma
lures sad cry because of what sin has
wrought in Gods fair creation.
But seei that which symbolizes the
lovely Lord to tell what he has be-
come on our behalf, '.for it is written,
cursed is everyone that hangeth on a
tree and thus on that cross of awful
shame he answered to all the curse of
sin for us.
Draining to its bitter dregs the cup
of Divine wrath against sin, he has
turned it into a cup of eternal bless
ing and his loving hand presses it to
| our lips Drink. oh soul, and live!
| Yea, Christ hath redeemed from
| the curse of the law, being made a
| curse for u.s. While upon creation the
| curse still abides, and the physical
being of the Christian, being still q
part of this grooming creation, bears
! the tokens of the curse, his soul is
| forever delivered. And this deliver
| ance guarantees the deliverance of the
very body itself, so that 1.-The suffer
| ings of this present time" Occasione6
| by the curse, ssare not worthy to be
/ compared with the glory that shall bt
| revealed in u.s. because the creature
| shall be delivered from the bondage
of corruption and ..this body of oul
/ humiliation shall be changed into the
| likeness of Christ's body of glory
/ But observe how fully he has, in hi
| own blessed person, met the curse O
sin. stIn sorrow shalt thou eat Blu
he is 1.-THE Man of Sorrows" saying a
| he goes n the cross for MS snow is m
soul exceeding sorrowful, even unit
DEATH Out of his awful sorrow
comes our joy Made a curse for u
that the blessing of Abraham Nigh
| come on US
But again. IN the sweat of tn
face shalt thou eat breadl' And o
him who bore the curse for us 1t
written that His sweat was as
were great drops of blood falling froI
him."
Dust thou art, and unto dust shal
thou return" And Christ became tina
prepared went into the dust of dealt
made SIM in that awful place s.tlls
we might be made the righteousness {
God in him"
Oh, what a Savfori A thousan
shames on the soul that feels no el
thusiasm over the very mention of h
namei
The last word in the Old Testamer
| Is Curse but the last word in tt
New Testament is grace" and tn
| grace is pronounced upon all who b
Heve in the name of our Lord Jesl
Christ
Yet little while and he who WI
made q curse for US shall come out
i those heavens into which he has gol
/ and then shall the very creation itse
| be delivered from the curse that
upon it now. so that the earth. whi'
III never has done so, ssshau yield her
crease and become a very garden
IL the Lord