Pueblo chieftain., 1921-01-16


man crying in vain for even the
friendly touch of an alien hand.
Companionship, sympathy, friend
ship-every one yearns for these in
the dark and difficult hours. Even
IcSus was not beyond this hunger.
We find Him kin to our humanity as
He opens His heart to His company
of friends and tells them that He is
about to die 4 solitary way walked the
Saviour: that He might be true COM
panion to all others who walk alone.
There are those who minimise tho
death of Jesus. Not so He Himself.
In His deepest hours of self-revela-
ton with Iiis friends, it was of His
death He spoke. In the experience OF
tho TRANSPORTATION, the theme of Ills
conversation with Moses and Ehlah
was His death that filed His thought.
Much as the life and words OF the
Master meant TO mankind, II is His
death that crowns and explains all.
The Cross interprets both time and
eternity.
Under an Eastern sky,
Amid a rabble's cry,
a man went forth to die
For me,
'Thorn-crowned His blessed head,
Blood stained His every tread,
Cross-laden. on lie sped
For me.
Pierced glow His hands and feet,
Three hours Ger Him beat
Fierce rays of noontidc heat,
For me.
Thus vert Thou made all mine:
Lord, makes me wholly Thine:
Grant grace and strength Divine
For me-
The Leader of All Heroes
In the background of our days real
thinking lies the memory Of our SOL
diors who in tho war proved the un-
not talk much nowadays-not enough.
Surely-of these heroes who so valiant
" went over tho top" When our
our fevcred world comes TO itself we
shall moro clearly understand tho
the place and the glory of that un-
surpassed revelation of hcroism. Then
we shall rightly appraise the char
scter Of the boys who waited In the
mud and cold for the zero hours; and
who open-eycd entered into the jaws
of death. This memory is ono OF the
most precious assets of our civilizau auon,
to be handed down n standard to all
succeeding generations.
Properly and appropriately. VIC speak
of IL in connection with the exper-
iencc of jesus. who. ali-secinS ana
unfcsring. went stcadfastly up TO
Jorusa lem. whero awaited Him lIpr-
rib,c fate OF which He was fully aware.
He knew 1t all. Not Il particle OF the
shame and suffering was hidden from
His eyes As our lesson text Gays: And
as Jesus was going up to Jerusalem:
lie took the twelve disciples apart. and
on the way He said unto them. Be
hold. VIC go up to Jerusalem: and the
Son of man shall be delivered unto the
chief priests and scribcs: and they
shall condemn Him to death. and shall
deliver Him unto tho Gcntilcs to mock.
and to scourge. and to cruelty; and
the third day He shall be raised up.
What Hero was our LORD! Ana
what n leader for stout-hcartcd youths
today.
Enter the Ambitions Woman
Like a dash OF cold water on the
pale face of Jesus, came an intcrrup-
tiou from the mother OF james and
.Iohn. his favoritc disciples. The Lord
had opened His heart to His friends
He had given them n glimpse OF HIS
deepest experience. In most sacred
confidence, He had shared His inner
most feelings with them. Instead ot
receiving in turn understanding ana
Fympathy and the fellowship of COM
pretending friendship, He gets an am
bilious request for political prefer
incnt, While He had been talking OF
the aublimities. they had been think
ing of the positions they might attain
Like the dying wayfarer, who had
pleaded in vain for some ono TO hold
his hand. Jesus had been rcbuned
cruelty in His outrcachins for sym
pathy.
Zobedo's wife was an ambitious wo-
man. an carly representative OF the
familiar and universal type Of woman
who seeks to further the fortunes OF
her men. She WAS proud that her sons
were in tho inner circle of the great
Teachers friends, She believed In Jo-
sus. after tho vague, misundcrstand-
ing faith OF most OF His followers; and
she expected Him. "a tho Messiah. TO
set up a temporal kingdom. In that
kingdom she wanted her sons TO have
tho highest places.
We may not be too hard upon tho
mother OF Joh-i and James. Women
and men of her state OF mind have
persisted thruout the Christian CEN
turtles, withstandinE all the clear re-
yelations Of tho mind OF Christ and
tho monitions OF the Spirit, Ambition
in the Church is one Of the multiplying
forces that Christianity has stili TO
endure.
4 Modern Version
| know one layman, once a delegate
to the highest court of Il great Ameri-
can denomination. who in impulsivc.
honest Indignation, once spoke out
against "A shameful political orgsniza
ton that was olectionoerinG for the
highest office in the church's gift, His
simple, direct and hot words of con-
domination wrecked the plans of the
''machinc" for that occssion-but he
himself was subjected'to such obloauy
and scandalous Misrepresentation that
he has never since been near an ccclo-
siastical gathering.
For. says he. III the highest officials
and leaders of the denomination arc
so committed to these base practices
of political chicanery and trading and
deals that they resent, as 'superpol
itics.' the most elemental statement of
the historic Christian teachings con-
cerning the goverpance OF the Church
by the Divine Spirit then l see moth
ing for mo TO do but to bear witness
Il. x.l L. L. l-.-