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THE LIFE
OF
JESUS CHRIST
ILLUSTRATED
MODERN
PAINTERS
BY
BETHLEHEM TO OLIVET
?getf)lei)em to libet
BY
J.
R.
MILLER, D.D.
Life,"
etc.
THE
NEW YORK
THOMAS
Y.
CROWELL &
CO.
PUBLISHERS
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I
...
PAOB
i
CHAPTER
II
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CHAPTER
III
13
CHAPTER
IV
19
CHAPTER V
THE HOLY CHILDHOOD
....
VI
.
25
CHAPTER
V
3X
"
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
VII
...
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PAGE
37
-43
CHAPTER
"LORD, SAVE ME"
IX
49
CHAPTER X
THE CHILDREN'S FRIEND
.
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CHAPTER
THE TEACHER BY THE SEA
XI
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6i
CHAPTER
CHRIST AT THE DOOR
XII
67
THE LORD
IS
...
.
73
-79
CONTENTS
CHAPTER XV
UNREQUITED LOVE
. .
I'AGE
.
85
CHAPTER XVI
THE COMING OF THE KING
Qi
CHAPTER
XVII
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97
XVIII
.
.103
CHAPTER XIX
THE REFUGE
IN
SORROW
09
"5
CHAPTER XXI
WHY
.."!
"WHAT SHALL
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER
"BEHOLD THE MAN"
XXIII
PAGE
133
CHAPTER XXIV
THE GREAT MYSTERY OF LOVE
.
.139
CHAPTER XXV
LAST AT THE CROSS, FIRST AT THE GRAVE
145
CHAPTER XXVI
THE WOMEN FRIENDS OF JESUS
. .
.151
CHAPTER XXVII
THE WALK TO EMMAUS
....
.
157
CHAPTER XXVIII
.163
CHAPTER XXIX
THE KING AND
HIS
KINGDOM
...
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.
169
CHAPTER XXX
THE PARTING BLESSING
viii
.
.175
ILLUSTRATIONS
THE ARRIVAL OF THE SHEPHERDS.
By Henry
LerolU.
ConUmporary French
School.
THE REPOSE
By Luc
IN EGYPT.
Contemporary French School
Olivier Alerson,
Contemporary French
Scliool.
ix
ILLUSTRATIONS
THE RAISING OF
By
G. P.
JAIRUS'S DAUGHTER.
ON THE LAKE OF
"
Contemporary Swiss
School.
CITY.
ILLUSTRATIONS
THE LAST SUPPER,
By'iEduard ivn Gebhardt, Contemporary German School.
CHRIST AT GETHSEMANE.
By
J. M. Heinrich
School.
GETHSEMANE.
Byf. H.
F. Bacon, A.R.A.,
PETER'S DENIAL.
By Gra/ Harrach, Contemporary German
School.
ECCE HOMO.
By Antonio
Ciseri, Italian Scltool.
THE CRUCIFIXION.
By Lion Bonnat, Contemporary French
School.
CROSS.
xi
ILLUSTRATIONS
THE HOLY WOMEN AT THE TOMB.
By William Adolphe Bouguereait, French School.
CHRIST'S MISSION TO
By Joseph
THE APOSTLES.
THE ASCENSION.
By Ernst von Liphart, Contemporary German
School.
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Then He wrought
spoke
have
Then He
with
their
His
wonderful
the
words which
touched
world
influence of blessing.
Then He went
life,
God
in
all
His
common
and
re-
on His
cross.
We
do not turn
to the
The
apocryphal
Gospels
we do
THE GOSPEL OF
careful to say that Jesus
wrought no
miracles and
deity until
the
Holy
Spirit.
of
there
really
greater
glory
than
in
His
birth.
Nothing
world than
for the
We
act of
but
the
first
Son of God emptied Himself of His divine attributes and entered human life in all the feebleness and
helplessness of infancy.
In
its
reveal-
as
impossible
sum
up
the
Child-
K U X
fl.
o
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THE INFANCY
hood
shines
everywhere
is
exalted
by
it.
Something of the
light of the
manger
now about
Jesus.
Where the story of the birth of Christ is known the world becomes a safer
place
gentler
for
all
children
truer,
hearts
are
is
and
and
the
air
told.
Since
Christ,
the
Son
of
all
is
sacred.
come
is
our home
in
about us
our infancy."
We
hood.
has
baby
It
is
THE GOSPEL
nigh
fail
to to
heaven.
The
the
parents
who
one
understand
to
blessing that
has
come
them
in their little
oflt
his shoes.
THE COMING OF
JESUS
'\1[7'E
CHRIST
the
wonder
at
strange
in
this
recepworld.
tion
Jesus
had
We
be
He
would have said that He would welcomed enthusiastically. But came almost unobserved. Some
came
But
in
to see
that
was
stir
all.
The
not."
great
event
''
made no
in
Jerusalem.
His
own
received
Him
men from
They spoke
THE COMING OF
of a King
in the
Neither Herod
nor the
rulers
The
true
world
royalty.
does
not
recognise
its
who
came.
ful
which
is
good and
character
;
they were
for
they came
frankin-
laden
with
treasures
gold,
cense and
myrrh.
down
to this
Him
gifts at
His
feet.
Even
this incident,
The
people were
8
indifferent.
None
w = a 5 w (^
->
a h
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JESUS CHRIST
of them followed the Magi to worship
their
King.
The
tragedy of Bethlehem
the
little
the slaying of
So
it
is
always.
Many
with indifference.
They
the
ignore
Him.
His
They laugh
friends
see
at
adoring
of
and
their faith in
Him.
They
no beauty in Him. Yet always there are those who see They are in Jesus the King of glory. drawn to Him in love that becomes
a
very
fire
in
their
hearts.
They
no cost or sacrifice in followThey bring ing and serving Him. Him their best treasures not money, but the gold, frankincense and myrrh
stop at
of their hearts.
1
THE COMING
Christ
are
never
to
disappoints
any
who
and and
out.
drawn
Him
in adoration
devotion.
blessing
in
Visions
of
beauty
fade
Every
never
is
realised.
None
who
ever turn to
Him
fail
in
need and
satisfied.
heart-hunger will
to be
He
gives
becomes
accept
who
12
the
life
of
Christendom. wherever
softening
aspirations.
it is
It is a
blessed evangel
hearts,
heavenly
But in the light of the story of Jesus Christ every mother and child have a deep interest to all trueTo the reverent mind, hearted men.
committed
its first
to her, an
immortal
is
in
to train and
Croons
**
I I
?
keep
my
garments
O
To
Thee."
It
was a holy
to
trust
committed
chosen to
Redeemer.
in her
Mary, when she was be the mother of the It behoved her to be holy
diligent in her
less
But scarcely
the
responsibility of every
mother.
know
for
what
nor
been born.
slacken,
God
14
in
her duty as a
Co
Paris, tqo2
THE CHILD
mother,
Great
her
else
she
may wreck
a divine
plan for a
is
life.
child
strength
grow up
the
in
beauty
and
motherher
hood.
Child to
When Mary
God
in the
presented
of a day
cross,
when she should stand by His her own heart pierced by the
His hands and
lifted
feet.
The
children
veil
is
not
to reveal to
may
does
not bring
them
always
There
c
is
pain
in
the
17
responsibility
of
love's
solicitudes.
Many
times
that
times, too,
Some-
suffering
in
her children
Or
the
may be
is
the mother
who
learns
love's
holiest secrets.
i8
lives
of
?
children
on
the
earth
The
of
Holy Family
was a
flight
question in
It
ordered and
directed.
The Child
Jesus
was
in
danger.
earth
be
the
Redeemer of men
slain
was about to be
in
His cradle.
for
Then
Heaven
interfered
His
deliverance.
An
angel
19
came
to Joseph,
the
command was
safe
beyond
The Child
over
the
infancy
evil
of
every
To
it
our eyes
pleases.
seems to strike
where
to
Weakness appears
distinction
Pestilence
it
knows no
when
comes into a community, but enters the homes of the evil and the good with like impunity. But ever Heaven is watching. There are lives no pestilence can touch. There is a wall of protection about them which noth20
THE WATCHFULNESS OF GOD
ing can pass.
mission for
The God in
child
who
has a
comes
to us.
We
have nothing
own
lives.
We
safe
for us.
we need
what God would have us to do. His way is the safe way, though If we it be through a thousand perils. listen for the divine voice, and then
follow
it
without
question,
we
way
to
shall
The
legends
tell
of
the
the
led, protected
flight
and
But
for, in the
Egypt.
We
call
Heaven was
is
really
all
open
the way.
So heaven
the divine
seeks safety
command.
24
are
apt
to
think
that,
as
child,
Jesus
must
have
been
When
we remember
God,
it
He
His infancy.
make
efforts
" blaze of
to
But
their
depict
smiting
resist
The Child Jesus, as they Him, is cruel, vindictive, down other children that
desires.
25
His
His
bearing
is
and ungentle.
He
is
mis-
is
the
He grew up
among
in
Him
Him
He
did.
they
He
He was
Him
natural
amid which
His
home
Broun. CUinent
Sr Co.,
Paris, i)o
was
like
garden
in
its
The
of
village,
nestling within
circlet
hills,
"
like a handful
of pearls in a goblet
of emeralds."
We know
that
in
one
sense
the
Child Jesus was different from other He was sinless. This means children
that
He
lived a life of
communion with
But
this
earliest years.
Him
in
ful,
the sweeter.
Him.
He
Him
in
among His
in
playmates.
revealed
The
the
Him
was
of the Holy
29
Spirit.
vellous
beauty
into
of the
Child Jesus.
tiful.
No
heart
doubt
He
was beauface,
The
makes the
and
Him
30
THE YOUTH OF
JESUS
CHRIST
be so
little,
npHOUGH
is
it
enough
Christ to enable us to
beautiful picture.
out a very
the charms
One of
of childhood
as
is its
continual unfolding,
when
till
rosebud
opens,
little
by
not
in
little,
us.
The growth of
Jesus
It
was
was not
well
He
He grew, but
" waxed
stature."
physically,
strong,"
and
be-
He
also
with
wisdom," which
a diligent learner.
means
that
He
was
31
THE YOUTH OF
We
are told
also that
God was upon Him," and that He " advanced ... in favour with God
and men." grew more
This means that His
life
and more
beautiful
and
lovable continually.
A
He
single
word
His
gives
glimpse
penter."
of
youth
us
He wrought
It
at a trade until
public ministry.
to a tired
means
a great deal
man,
as
to be able to say,
" Yes, yes, a carpenter, same trade as mine,
It
I
warms
my
heart as
read that
I
line.
can stand
the
poor pay.
For
I'll
no distant day."
that
He
d iilimp\:niiy
:
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Copyright HoUUrs
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&
Co., Parii,
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JESUS CHRIST
His glorious
life's
life
with
all
its
powers in
common
that
duties.
We
Son
of
might
think
being
the
God
He would
in
ordinary childhood.
But
He
visit
differed
no sense
in this respect
first
from other
to
children.
At His
the
fully
temple
Father.
He
But with
this
new
glory in
back to His peasant home with His mother and Joseph and
His heart.
He went
He found His was subject to them. " Father's business " in the obediences,
obligations
station.
and
tasks
of
His lowly
The youth
truest
and divinest
place,
in
its
Browning
35
tells
of an
YOUTH OF
angel
JESUS CHRIST
the
place
who took
of a dis-
work.
"
He
If
to Him all one did God's will on the earth or in the sun."
life
of the
as the
as
holy
36
npHE
is
artist's
thought in
his picture
that the
it
Carpenter as
not come to
a prophesy of His
The
cross did
shadow
rested
There was no hour when He did not see what the end would Other men are born to live be. Other men Jesus was born to die.
busiest days.
look
forward
in
to a
goal
of splendid
achiev-
success
the world
great
ments,
worthy
attainments,
37
power,
honour
His
cross.
over
Him.
He
When
out to
John the
of
Baptist pointed
Him
Messiah, he spoke
Him
as
the
Lamb
of God, the
Lamb
the
of Sacrifice.
His
consciousness
death.
of
of
life
His
the
appointment to
earliest incidents
One
was
of
His
to
conversation
Nicodemus,
the
is,
Son
up, that
see
cross,
believe.
might
the
He
His
told
people,
that they
meaning
When
Peter,
Sons. 39*,
Old Bond
Street,
London, W.
He
of a
earthly
royalty,
Jesus
began
suffer
He
must
many
own
interpretation of the
nobly confessed.
When
King
places in
His kingdom.
He
spoke to them of a
cup
with
He must which He
if
asked them
a course as His
When
a feast
was given
for
in
woman
anointed Him,
it
His
was not His wonderful teachings, nor His great miracles that He asked them
to
He
had given
to the close,
rested
it
upon
not
of Jesus.
Yet
did
sadden Him.
man
lived
meaning of the cross, that it would make redemption for the world, so He went to it with joy, singing a hymn as
He
left
the upper
room
42
TT
is
charming
story.
Probably
not
have
sought
Him now
otherwise
but
for
his distress.
many
girl
heart
would
little
This
was the
father's
only child.
That
at the
made her
dearer.
She was
now
point of death.
most urgent.
Jairus
believed
only Jesus
would come and lay His hands on her she would live. The Master responded
43
and
father.
He
set
out with
there
the
anxious
But
was
an
interruption.
their
As they were
out
her
pressing
way through
reached
the
woman
touched
hand
and
Master's
garment.
We
might think that Jesus would not have allowed Himself to be detained for a
moment even by
but
woman.
go on, a
messenger came and said to the ruler, " Thy daughter is dead ; why troublest
thou the Teacher any further
death
?
"
When
comes
all
is
over.
But Jesus
only believe."
It is
Him
to help.
house.
Already
the
mourners
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charge,
Jesus
making
their
noisy
clamour.
at
Him.
The world
immortality.
Then He
them
leave the
room.
His
be
own
He
permit to be
faith
with Him.
could
admitted
scene
of
it
such
solemnity and
fitting that
awe.
the
Besides,
little girl
was
when
not
awoke
by the
she
should
be
abashed
The manner
was
beautiful.
a most
He
her
call her,
but
took
hand, and
47
then
said,
"
Instantly
Either
at
what
had
taken
place,
caused
the
Jesus bade
eat.
to
48
"
TT
He
upon the sea Then He went up into the alone. mountain and spent the night with His Father. A storm came on, and the
little
tossed
in
the
waves.
From His
place
of
prayer
His
disciples.
He
in rowing,
to
and them
Then
it
was
that
Peter called to
me come
It
the waters."
was just
49
Peter,
E
Come,"
and instantly the disciple stepped out While he kept his from the boat. eye on his Master he walked on the water as if it were a solid pavement. But for a moment he saw the waves, and at once began to sink. In his despair he cried, " Lord, save
me," and immediately Jesus reached out His hand and lifted him out of the But while He was rescuing waters. him, He said, " O thou of little faith,
wherefore didst thou doubt
?
"
The
have
as
He
could
he began.
to
to
ability
do
it.
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Oxford
Street,
London
^'LORD, SAVE
ME"
Nothing is impossible to faith. A good man said, " Doing what can't be done is the glory of Christian living."
Anybody can do
be done, but
Christian to
It
it
is
Com-
only the
achieving
below
us.
what
our
Master expects of
Though Peter's peril was caused by his own fear, the Master did not disregard
his
cry.
He
is
patient
with
our
failures,
pitiful
with
our weakin
nesses,
delivering
faith
is
But
?
be so small
why The
should
our
Strong
are
One
When we
doing
He
when
;
we
us,
are in a place to
which
He
has sent
we need never
fail
fear
nor faker
we
cannot
our
own
faith.
54
He
was
Him.
back
His
the
disciples
kept
babies, but
He
children
to
:
come unto Me
forbid
them not for to such belongeth the kingdom of God." Then He took them in His arms and blessed them. Jesus repeatedly showed His love Once when His disciples for children.
asked,
''
Who
is
?
dom
child,
said,
of heaven
He
him
shall
called
in
a little
and, taking
His arms,
" Whosoever
humble him-
55
child,
the
same
is
greatest."
Then He went on
of
It
to speak
in
of the
clearness
sight.
the
is
children
Heaven's
a great crime.
child.
of the
honour
in
which children are held in heaven. Sometimes they are despised on earth. " It is only a child," men say, and pass
one place where no " I say unto you," child is despised. " that in heaven their said Jesus,
on.
But there
is
angels
face
of
My
Father
who
is
in heaven."
The
They
heaven.
Francis
Xavier,
once
in
utter
rest.
HoUUn
Paris,
and
tht Painter
charging that
no matter who came he must not be disturbed. Soon his servant saw the monk's white face at the tent door, and heard him say, " I made a mistake.
If
Httle
child
That was Hke Jesus. He was never too weary to give attention to a Httle
child.
On
we
see
Indeed,
for
no place
in
His kingdom
any
enter
but
children.
The
old
must
heavenly
household.
A
old
picture
by Watts
represents
an
feeble,
lying back in
lie
Round him
59
the
in
signs of
all
that he has
been doing
busy
life.
Then above
in the
his
head
is
form of a
it
baby
be
child.
That
is
the
all.
way
must
at the last
with us
Before
we
is
we must become
little
only
the
kingdom.
60
It
so
associated
with
life.
many
He
wrought many of His miracles along its shores. He often sailed upon its
waters
with
His
disciples.
Several
times
He
was
word
the
winds
and calmed
raging waves.
Many
Sometimes
fishing-boat,
He
would
sit
in
6i
and speak to the the shore. He was a wonderful teacher. He was the Son of God. Other great teachers declare the truth Jesus was Himself
the land,
the truth.
searching
out
God, but
was
Jesus
declared
Him.
He
God
Himself,
speaking to men.
ings
God
gentleness, kindness,
compassion
and
mercy.
He
said,
"
He
Me
Other
men
lives
own
Every word
that
beam of
His own
character.
stained with
sin
and
un-
He
brought
the
revealing
of divine
mercy.
Everywhere
men were
He
spoke of
There was sorrow in every home People and He came with comfort. were groping in darkness and He came to lead them in the right way.
The
Christ
immeasurable.
the
Dr. Fairbairn
compares
words of Christ to a
sweeten them.
They
of
F
are also, as
own
seaside
handful
scattered
over
dreary
the w^orld's
life
uplifting everywhere.
There is silence now on the lonely and deserted shores of the Sea of
where once the great Teacher spoke, but the words that fell there from His lips have lost none of their
Galilee,
graciousness, their
life,
their heavenly
" Heaven and earth shall pass away," He said, " but My words shall
music.
66
pERHAPS
ever
painted
richer
in
its
spiritual teachings
than
Holman Hunt's
It is a
gospel
stands
The
Saviour of
men
and kingly
as
in his strength.
He
His
is
clad
office
is
it
Redeemer.
On
His
head
a a
is
He
is
the
Light
of
the
He
men's
feet,
and giving
is
The
also
representation
is
of the Scriptures.
He
standing at
own word
I
in the Revelation
" Behold,
His
does
face shows
eager love
and yearning.
He
save
longs to be admitted.
He
and to
bless,
In this representation
we have
meaning of the Incarnation, with its love and condescension, its revealings of tenderness and compasthe whole
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sacrifice.
is
He
is
knocking,
and
there
is
knocking o
is still
shut,
no indication that His heeded within. The door there is no sign that it is
Yet the heavenly Friend
impatient, does not turn
being opened.
has not
grown
away.
He
and continues
love, grace,
in His face as
knock.
All divine
He
stands there.
As we look
we
is
There
no knob or latch outside the door. It can be opened only from within. We have this also in the words in
Revelation
''
:
Behold,
:
stand at
the
if
My
will
come
Him."
Why
71
does
He
not force
way of
waits.
We
can shut
out
if
we
will.
We
loving Christ,
opened
we Will we ?
if
will.
Have we
72
THE LORD
'T^HE
and
IS
MY SHEPHERD
is
shepherd
a favourite Scrip-
tural
love
care.
wonderful
truth
in
exquisite
lines
which
in
are
dear
wherever the
the
New
would
Lord
give
His
friends
the
them, and
Him them. He
to
are
to
says,
''
am
the
Good
Shepherd."
The
THE LORD
sheep.
IS
MY SHEPHERD
If they are exposed
he
is
with them.
is
to danger, so
he.
His people.
relations
afflictions
He
is
into closest
with
them.
afflicted.
In
all
their
He
The storm
them smites Him. The shepherd knows his sheep. He has a name for each one and calls them all by their names. Christ knows each one of His friends, has intimate personal knowledge of each one. He knows the best in us and
that smites
also the worst, our faults, our sins, our
wanderings.
are,
Yet, knowing us as
still
we
He
loves us
of us.
The shepherd
his sheep.
is
He
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THE LORD
When
IS
MY SHEPHERD
way he
for
green pastures.
He
is
specially
arms and
All this
is
carries
them
in his
bosom.
in
is
gentleness of our
Good Shepherd
sheep.
His
loves
care
of
His
He
thoughtful
the
toward
the
weak.
He
makes room for them on His bosom. Whatever the need is, there is something in the heart of Christ which meets its craving and supplies its lack.
children and
his
flock in
risk
danger.
safety,
Often he has to
even his
life,
his
own
His
in protecting
his sheep.
life
giveth
for
THE LORD
And His
IS
MY SHEPHERD
His keeping.
eternal
shall
life,"
"
give
;
He
said
My
hand."
Then
He
v^ill
bring His
shall
own
all safely
become one
one shepherd."
THE COMPASSION OF
CHRIST
showed His sympathy with the weak and the wronged. That was not the way
revealing of Christ
T^VERY
The
strong
weak.
No
provision
was made
All that
we
see
in
of pity, of sympathy,
Christ's
hospitals,
the fruit of
own
life
and teaching.
all
All
homes, refuges,
in
the vast
the
crippled,
is
the
insane,
the
the continuance
Him-
begun
nineteen
hundred
years
ago.
The
tive
to
human
distress.
No
cry of
their teachers
But they
soon learned that Jesus really cared for them, that He felt with them in their
and need and that He could help them. Wherever He went, the sick were brought to Him, the blind,
suffering
the demoniac,
But
it
was
ills
with
at
physical
that found
sympathy
There
are sorer
of the body.
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Sibd^faer
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Street.
London
he and
He
an-
feeling
countrymen were
to
relieve
making no
them.
The
had
them.
on
He
saw them
appeared,
as
sheep
that
had no shepherd.
Jesus
Wherever
distress
human
found
Him.
Him
of
83
in
the midst of
whom
look
to
He
like heavenly
Take one of His words for *' illustration Come unto Me, all ye
them.
:
that labour
I
you rest." If Jesus had never spoken another word but that, He would have been the world's
will
give
greatest
benefactor.
call
What
!
millions
found
that
blessed
rest
gracious
word
be
for
as
spoken to
ever will
offering
all
earth's
84
UNREQUITED LOVE
TESUS came
people,
as
but
His
own
received
Him
not.
Him, among them the Twelve and a little company of men and women. These were ardently devoted to Him. They believed in His Messiahship,
although they did not understand what
it
meant.
not.
But
His
nation accepted
Him
in
Him.
the
beginning, and
opposition
grew in bitterness until at last they had Him on a cross. This was their
return for His love.
85
UNREQUITED LOVE
Christ's
their rejection
were very
severe.
Some
He
to
finally left
it.
Some were
from
bare
the
laid
spoken
hearts
the
Olives.
disciples
Mount of
of
He
the
the
teachers
and
rulers.
the
but
They devoured widows' houses, and then made long prayers that men might think them holy. They paid
tithes
they omitted
from their lives. They were careful to keep their dishes clean, but they paid no heed to their own inner lives.
It
He
told
that
was im-
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UNREQUITED LOVE
pending.
that killeth
"
Jerusalem, Jerusalem,
them that are sent unto her how often would I have gathered thy children
together, even as a hen gathereth her
chickens
under
!
her
wings,
and
ye
would not Behold, your house is left unto you desolate." There are two marvels here. One
is
Jesus
He came
doing good,
He came
of
offering
them
all
blessings
eternal
life.
How
Him
?
The
love
in
other marvel
is
His heart
through
city
their
as
rejection.
On Palm
the
Sunday,
He
the
amid
UNREQUITED LOVE
when He
and the
passed the crest of the
hill
city
came
He
broke into loud weeping and cried, " If thou hadst known, in this thy
day, even thou, the things which be-
but
now The
they are
though treated so unjustly, though the His answer answer to it was a cross.
to the rejection was redemption.
90
was
only
five
days
before
the
crucifixion.
This
day Jesus
was
people's idol.
Was He Himself
popular outpouring
that
for
deceived
by
?
this
and acclaim
so
Did He suppose
of
Him
?
long,
they
were
now going
Messiah
to
:
accept
Him
as their
No
the outburst of
first
As He heard the cries of the throng, " Hosanna to the Son of David "
!
THE COMING OF THE KING
ear,
were
pomp
ride
on to
die."
There
spiritual
been
the
deep
triumphal
for
Himself planned
very way.
unto thee
and having salvation ; lowly, riding upon an ass." In thus claiming that He was the per:
He
is
just,
son
to
whom
the
prophet
referred,
and
ment
He
was the
There was
also
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in
the
manner of
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He
was proclaiming,
He would
have
come
was
The
ass sug-
He
of love, not of
fill
strife.
He
came
to
As we look
enthusiasm and
at the
people in their
we cannot
Him
fickle
worldly en-
picture by Tintoretto
was
over.
It
is
evening.
The
of thorns
is
lying near
nibbling at
That
tells
of the
trans cience
of the
world's honour.
but
to
Jesus
went
cross
and not
its
to an
earthly
throne.
But in
The
cross
glory.
Now He
Him
in
we
are with
His triumph.
96
REMEMBER
JESUS CHRIST
/^UR
ness
bered.
none of
want to
love.
want to be forgotten.
in the hearts of those
We
we
live
But
this
reason
why
Christ wished to
membered.
the world.
getting
He
had
come
save
men
This love
rule our
whole
most complete
His
for
devotion.
disciples
must remember
is
Him,
remembering
part of love.
The
REMEMBER
brance.
JESUS CHRIST
We
He
to
are
to
think
of
Him
when we have
of what
in our
But
de-
we
are
think of
are
Him
just as
voutly
when we
table,
sacramental
in
midst
of
we
always remember
faithful
Christ
it
keep us
in
our
loyalty.
He
wants us to be
streets,
as true to
Him
out
on the
His
and
tempted and
was a young
tried, as
feet in prayer.
In a battle, there
soldier,
from home, who fought as bravely as any old veteran, and fell on the front
line.
REMEMBER
the picture of a
JESUS CHRIST
fair girl's face.
That
If
his
courage.
Christ
we
our
the
memory of
fail
in
and
testing,
we will
all
never
Him.
The
secret of
Church
Remembering
us into His
likeness.
Our thoughts
temple
of
If
of
our
character.
we
will
think
lives
become
earthly
If
we
if
think
of
we
grow
earthly.
we
are
think of Christ,
in our
will
thoughts of
Him
His beauty.
The
life is
REMEMBER
to forget
JESUS CHRIST
Then we
out
Him,
His blessed
lose
face.
never
His
peace
shall
of
fail
our hearts.
Then we
be
will
never
Him
in
any
duty or struggle.
lonely,
for
Then we
shall
never
Christ
remembering
presence.
02
But
a lesson
we must
like
learn if ever
we would become
our
Master.
He came
not to be ministered
uttermost.
Anything
as
needed to
breathed.
He
did as natu-
and
simply as
He
He
in
to be
helpful to them.
Then
service
it
never mat-
tered
it
what the
was, whether
He
as
graciously
greatest.
and
the
The washing of feet was the lowliest service any man could do for another.
It
slave.
hesitation did
disciples.
this
own
Thus
He
is
done by another
hands.
We
when we
ser-
something that we
may do
studio
in
Milan.
The
was
artist
was
busy within.
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He
engaged
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Co..
London
copy of one of
the
at the
great
masters.
He
of the
was working
stranger.
head
he
At
last
broke
the
'
the
silence,
man
with
"
'
feverish
Speak to me,
little like ?
sir, is it
is it
ever
so
There
this
is
no
surer
test
life
of
the
genuineness of Christian
than in
Is
it
like
ever
?
so
little
like
the
Master's serving
ful
We
of our dignity.
of
When we
Son
feet,
disciples'
we should be ashamed
whether
is
ever
to
ask
anything another
may
and
his
honour
will only
be enhanced by
**0 blessed
Jesus,
it.
when
see
Thee bending,
all
Girt as a servant at
Thy
servants' feet,
blending,
To To
wash
share
their dust
feast,
know
not to adore,
08
THE REFUGE
TT7HERE
of
not
to
IN
in
SORROW
sorrow
is
go
one
For
life's
great
questions.
whom
sorrow does
some time. The Master, whose footprints are on all life's paths, shows us the way to the refuge in the
come
at
time
of
trouble.
He
in
found
an
it
in
prayer.
" Being
agony
He
prayed."
We
prayed.
may
listen
at
Garden and
learn
how
our
Master
that
We
in
have
therefore,
109
to
ask
THE REFUGE
imminent may
are enduring.
IN
SORROW
that
we may anguish we
blame
God
will never
In His
He
still
referred
all
to
" Nevertheless, not as There is I will, but as Thou wilt." no true prayer which is not modelled
His
Father.
after
this pattern.
is
what
is
best.
We
We
be
lost if
we
all
failed to
endure
it.
We
must leave
"As Thou
Then
wilt."
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THE REFUGE
which
IN
SORROW
not
pass.
He
sought.
answered.
The cup
was
degree.
The
the
bitterness
not
lessened
far
in
smallest a
So
as
we
know, not
or
even
in
in
mitigated
the
because
of
the
prayer
came
Sufferer
was
to
accept
And
it
was
Was
if
not a
answer
than
the
dreadful
?
The
intense as
He went
end the struggle was over, victory had been won and He was at peace.
of the Garden, and
at
the
Prayer
is
always answered.
113
It
I
is
THE REFUGE
to us of
IN
SORROW
what we
to
ask, or in ourselves,
in enabling us
God and
seek
this
rejoice.
We
in
vain.
shall
never
shall
refuge
We
will
meet us
114
/^NE
the
of
the
saddest
elements
in
our
Lord's
His
best
disciples.
He
chose
all
the
three
loved of them
be near
Him
He hoped
sympathy.
that they
to get
While
His mysterious
when
This
happened
times.
His
"COULD YE NOT
friends
failed
Him
in
His
hour
of
sorest need.
One of
peasants
tells
red
breast.
of the
Cruci-
fixion, as Jesus
Calvary, a
bird,
Him
as
He
went on His way of sorrows, flew down and plucked one thorn from the crown of thorns He was wearing. The blood spurted from the wound
and splashed the
bird's breast.
Ever
upon
its
its
breast,
remembrance of
pity for
the
The
from
disciples
had
it
in their
power
to
Master's
brow,
their
but
strengthen
Him
by
ii6
sympathy
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make His
missed
victory a
their
little easier.
they
opportunity,
Him.
There was something inexpressibly sad in our Lord's question, " What, could ye not watch with Me one hour ? " It showed the bitterness of
His disappointment.
His
request
them was
was only
asked
not
a
for
of
it
He
had
is
it
them
to
watch.
An
He
hour
long
keep
awake.
Then
requested
such a
Then
had
it
was
of Peter, personally,
the question.
Peter
professed
undying
119
loyalty
and
Others
might be untrue to Jesus, but he could not be. Yet Peter was one of those who wearied in watching before one
little
The Master no
watch with
of anguish,
of love and
sympathy.
Let us not
20
WHY
/^NE
last
disappoint-
were
fiction this
would not be
said
it
in
it.
We
truly.
would have
Peter loved
was
deeply
impossible.
Jesus
and
He
had For
received the
three
name of
he
in
the rock.
years
had been
the
under the
teaching and
constant
com-
panionship of Jesus.
He
had special
in
in the apostle-family.
always
first
the
Master's closest
friends.
It
WHY
was he
fession
who had made the great conwhich won from Jesus such
would have
said that
commendation.
We
last
he was the
his
of the apostles
Lord.
Yet, in spite of
bravest,
most favoured apostle, this man of rock, fell most ignominiously, fell, too,
at a
time
when
most
loyal.
Why
fidence
did
he
fail ?
His self-con-
made him weak. He slept in the Garden when he ought to have Then he drew his been watching.
sword to defend
His
last
his Master.
His next
off.
company by the fire when he came in. The denial was already more than half
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WHY
officers,
made when he
trying
It
down among
appear
then,
as
the
to
one of
the
them.
was
easy
when
Against
the
pitifiil
weakness and
faith-
He
heard
all
the
denial
thrice
repeated,
and
it
the
all,
oaths
and curses
It
He
was
"
heard
this
marvellous forbearance
It
that
saved Peter.
Thou, Peter
art
thou then a
common
stone
Which
at last must break My heart upon, I For all God's charge to His high angels may Guard My foot better ? Did I yesterday
Wash
thy
feet,
My
morning sun
?
125
WHY
A
Go and
is
manifest
!
late contrition,
final
need
dreariest,
Thou
My
voice, to
I
Because
I am here. God and angels, shall attest know this man, let him be clear.'
"
126
"
"WHAT SHALL
JESUS
?
DO WITH
"piLATE'S was
distinction.
most unenviable
doubt
the
No
he
felt
honoured
curator
when he was
But
a
made prohonour
of Judea.
brought him
left
responsibility
which
him weighed and found wanting. Pilate did not know when he was roused so early that April morning that that Friday was doomsday for him. He did not know when he was
going through
the
trial
the
various
stages
of
He would
better
thousand
times
127
"WHAT SHALL
governor
escaped
DO
thus
of Judea
the
and
have
making of the
terrible
mistake he
made
that day.
failed so
just,
If he
and had stood like a rock for w^hat was right, the day would have become one of undying honour, and not one But of everlasting obloquy for him. the question wherewith Pilate met
every
but,
crisis
was not,
will
"What
is
right?"
"What
advance
my
interest?"
He knew
wrong,
no
fault in
Him.
of the rulers
delivered
He knew
the motive
had
Him.
=5
..eg
a:
-to
WITH
JESUS
"
?
He
sent
Him
to
himself.
This
failing,
one
pri-
At
shall
this point
it
was that
''
Pilate, per-
What
then
do with Jesus
the
"
Instantly
came
Still
answer,
Pilate
" Crucify
dreading to send
Barabbas
Him
to
the cross.
Crucify Jesus
"
!
He
far in
So he yielded.
to
their
He
will.
delivered
the
prisoner
"
WHAT SHALL
taking water,
before
DO
"
?
Then
hands
he washed
his
the
people,
saying he
Just
Man
He
is
Man Him
cross.
An
the
imaginative
in
writer,
describing
life
the
world of
them
them
still
and
for ever
stained.
They
will never
come
clean.
132
"
TT
was
appeal.
He
hoped
that
the
spectacle
of Jesus
move
the people
for
in
pity
that they
His
vain.
release.
But
While
before us,
the
Holy
Sufferer
stands
the
man
"
!
Recall His
in
its
life.
It
had
in
trial
been beautiful
its
sinlessness
and
revealings
of God.
On
His
His enemies had sought to find some flaw in Him, but they could find
^33
"
bring
Him
that
may know
all
find
no
fault
in
Him."
Witnesses
over
any wrong
He
had ever
He
had been the Friend of the poor, the Comforter of sorrow, the Helper of
the weak.
As He
back
has
stands
before us now.
He
His
appears as the
man
of sorrows.
been
torn
by the cruel
is
scourge.
crown of thorns
about
His brow,
truly
as if
He
were a king.
And
He was
a king,
and
He
never was
in that hour.
He
He
His
to
it
own
defence.
He
was
all
insults,
and
when He spoke
composure.
kingly.
Never
man more
His love.
He
a shade of bitterall
the cruelties
He
had endured.
this
He
He
over
set
in
motion
in this world's
tides of love
all
suffering.
for
He
was
Redeemer of
the world.
137
Thorns
of
sin,
and
He
took our
upon Him that we might receive a crown of Ufe. He was subjected to shame in the eyes of the world that we might be welcomed to glory. Never was He more kingly than He was that
Good
Friday.
138
love's
revealing.
all
The
life
of
Christ was
love.
He
to
life,
so
last,
its
that
At
on the
highest
love
found
the
expression
when
gave
world.
Himself
up
to
We
it,
We
in
139
have hints of
but
hints
only,
some of the
human
love.
The
the
immeasurable
divine
to
distance
between
inexplicable.
Some
artists
have sug-
of
the
Crucifixion.
One
the
has
left
nearly everything to
the beholder.
thought of
Where
is
Saviour
is
there
only darkness,
some
tions,
traces, little
of light,
form of a
in
Man on
merest
a cross.
outline,
The
face
appears
and a ray of light shows the figure of one kneeling at the foot of the The picture suggests two cross.
mysteries
Christ in
its
and then
THE CRUCIFIXION
By Lion Bonnai, Contemf'orary French
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School
Brtiitii,
CUment &
Co..
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OF LOVE
the mystery
of redemption by which
is
comsouls
municated
that
to
penitent
human
the cross.
is
now
world's hopes.
We
is
cannot understand
are sure of the
in
we
that
there
redemption
Saint
the
puts
blood
the
of
Christ.
in
Paul
truth
in
few great
his letters
words
of
one of
luminous
gave
me, and
This
concenits
upon
himself, as
he
had been the only one Christ loved and for whom He gave Himself up,
all
individualised
the
GREAT MYSTERY OF LOVE
of us
may
"
say,
"
He
die
Thorn-crowned His blessed head, Blood-stained His every tread, Cross-laden, on He sped For me."
144
AT THE GRAVE
A/TARY MAGDALENE'S
to
devotion
Christ
is
dition
sinner,
has
branded
is
her
really
as
but there
nothing in
the
New
cast
Testament
is
tradition
true.
It is said
that Jesus
had
but
seven demons
out
of her,
is
demoniacal
possession
not
immorher.
It
is
enough
saw
to
know of Mary
saved
in
that
the
love
of Christ
When
she
Him
145
His
divine
purity and
Master
now
possessed
her.
great
Moravian missionary used to say, referring to Christ, " I have only one
passion, and that
is
He."
So
it
was
with
Mary
evil
life
of
it
Magdala.
Whatever
form of
her
before Jesus
utterly
soul,
all
was
now
In
body,
for
mind and
Christ.
by her passion
the
New
Testament
there
is
no
finer
secration of a
life
During the
among
tion.
the
beholding in
marvellous
devo-
by Braun,
CUment
Sr Co.,
Paris
FIRST
AT THE GRAVE
Joseph and Nicodemus took down the body of Jesus from the cross, washed
it,
wrapped
rock.
it
in spices,
and
laid
it
to
in
rest
in the clean,
new tomb,
the
cut
the
When
other
friends
sitting
over
against
the
sepulchre."
in
its
matchless
intensity.
What was
love
so
secret
It
was in
did
she
But
why
did
much
Why
her
holy
loved
friends
who
Him
too
with
unquestioned
loyalty
It was because she and devotion ? had such a distinct realisation of what
she
owed
to
Him.
149
Many
people
FIRST
know
AT THE GRAVE
seem to have only the faintest conception of the meaning of their redemption.
unusual
Mary
her,
understood
with
clearness
what
Christ
had
soul
and her
to
whole
Christ
to
Him
in adoring love.
devotion
con-
tinued to show
itself after
His death.
He would
honour
was re-
His dead
body.
Her
love
warded by being the first to whom He showed Himself alive and the first to carry the news of the resurrection to the disciples.
150
VI70MAN'S
Gospel
story.
devotion
and
fidelity
in
the
A man
at last
denied Him,
plotted to
man
betrayed
Him, men
destroy
the
Him
and
put
Him on
cross.
But no
certain
part in
wronging Him.
There were
followed Jesus
tering to
from
minis-
Him.
No
women whom He
had helped
to
151
some
His kindness
Him.
the
The
love
of these
after
women
appears conspicuously
His death.
first
As
morning
their
of
the
way
the
tomb of
was
to
their Friend.
Their
honour His body. The burial on Friday afternoon had been hurried, as the hour was late, and they wished now to lay fragrant
purpose
spices
in
His grave.
near in the
stone
had
been
away.
They
This greatly
there,
perplexed them.
As they stood
dazzling
garments.
152
They were
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OF JESUS
awed by the
vision, but as they
words of assurance and comfort, " Why seek ye the living among the
dead
?
He
is
is
risen."
One of
the legends
of the dis-
how
and
it
lay
on
it
the
altar
through
Passion
Week.
The
people
as
came
they
looked at
and wept,
sufferings
remembered the
of Jesus.
Then
the
very early
priest
relic,
sacred
Easter day.
When
the
on the he opened
it
door he found
place
filled
He
did
but as he
moved
toward the
was breaking
WOMEN
it
FRIENDS OF JESUS
window, and
as
through an eastern
fell
it
that
of roses,
thorn
rose.
The
At
is
life,
dark-
156
two
The
only a
kindly
and
the
three
were
soon
to
familiarly.
He opened
things His
great Scripture
comThey panions could never forget. were so pleased with His company that when they reached the end of
many
their
journey
their
they
guest,
urged
Him
he
to
become
sented.
It
and
con-
was
at their
His
identity.
Perhaps, as
He
in
it
We
;
do not know
that
just
it
how
came
we know only
was while
knew Him."
is
in
life's
common
experiences
Himself to
One
Him
to
Jesus
these
" Have
you never known Me ? I have been showing you the He had been Father all the while."
this
doing
in
CO
di
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a w
I'
'I
S
I"
life.
The
disciples
had seen
all
these
beautiful
in
them
He
It
say that
if
Christ
He would do
believe
would
Men are on Him. looking too far away to find Christ. In his quest for the Holy Grail the knight wandered over all lands in vain, finding it at last, when he came back, We do not need to by his own gate. go far away to find opportunities to
serve Christ
in the
;
He
is
waiting continually
us, in the sick
poor
who need
l6l
who
visits, in
the lonely M
stand.
In doing
kindnesses
to
His
ones
we
will
Him
and
He
will
in joy
and peace.
162
XTOTHING
the
is
more wonderful
Shepherd
sheep.
in
Good
His
care
than
It
His
for
care
for
lost
might
that
is
be
worth
to
while,
for
we would
a
is
is
say,
Him
whole flock
lost
a flock
But
it
the loss
its
of only
appeal to the
Good Shepherd. Does He really miss one among so many ? Does Christ really care when somewhere on the earth one human soul
of the
is
wandering
in the
dark ways of
sin ?
Did any mother ever have so many children that if one of them wandered
163
THE PATHOS OF
from home she would not miss it ? It would not be love in the Good Shepherd
if
He
The
by the
shepherd
a wonderful illustration of
He
are safe
in search of the
one poor,
pain
sheep
fold.
shelter of the
The
the
story
suggests
and
disas
comfort,
danger
and
suffering,
treads
steep
mountains,
gorges,
heart
looking
is
sheep.
His
in His quest.
it.
He
in
knew
;
How
164
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Co., 74,
DIVINE LOVE
Nor how dark was
Ere
'
the
night
that
the
Lord
passed through,
He
lost.
Lord,
whence
those
blood-drops
all
the
way,
'
They were
astray
"
All
this
is
wonderfully pathetic as
But that
is
not
that
is
in the story.
The Master
the beautiful
recited
tell
common
been
shepherd.
would not
the
have
put
into
Gospels
if
among
were
all.
heavenly
revealings
is
that
Christ Himself
the
Good
He
tells
us in His
how He
one ever
167
seeks lost
strays
human
No
away from
allowed to go on unmissed,
No
back and
But
until
the
imperilled
cares
one.
seeks
always
Christ
and
He
finds.
i68
HIS
KINGDOM
much
it
On
that
the evening
He
died, however,
did
not
seem probable
a
He would
found
endure.
His death
and
burial,
He
everything.
divine.
His apostles
the
That changed It proved that He was few weeks later He met and outlined a plan for
arose.
conquest
of
the
world.
The
it
was
had a purpose.
told
169
HIS
KINGDOM
had
no mere man could ever make. He had won His King by His universal place as humiliation. It warms our hearts to remember that He who sits on the
throne
of
all
power
is
man
like
ourselves,
Jesus
Christ,
whom
we
know
hands,
to
be so human, so
gracious,
so loving.
With
all
authority in His
ever
nothing
can
go wrong
disciples
Then
their
Jesus
told
His
of
part.
All
authority
had been
yet
ye, theredisciples
given to
own Him
fore,"
Lord.
"
Go
He
to
said,
of
all
the nations."
universal
claim of
Jesus
authority
was
so
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HIS
KINGDOM
laid
upon His followers seemed vast beyond all possibility. Yet the words of the commission are so plain that there can be no mistake their as to meaning. That little handful of the
stupendous, this duty
Master's
ciples
now
followers was
all
to
make
dis-
of
nations.
Believers
of
first
is
theirs
now.
there
Christ
are
universal
King, but
still
millions
who
it
do not
own His
sway, and
is
our duty to
inability
to
do
this
vast
work.
But
not
the
to
do
it.
it
alone
''
they
I
and
of
He
the
would do
alway,
Lo,
am
with you
even
unto
173
the
end
HIS
KINGDOM
presence.
He
human
But
He would
return
again in
stay with
His His
spiritual
presence and
Church unto the end. The promise was fulfilled and His disciples went everywhere, Christ working with them. We alone cannot win men to Christ,
but
if
Christ
is
resist
His power.
174
^HE
last
way.
ciples
dis-
before,
had
its
sacred
talked
them.
they
He
with
them
walked.
What
would we not give to have the words He spoke to them They must have been words of deep revealing, full of
!
love.
Their
hearts
were
strangely
comforted
by what
to
He
said.
They
We
friend
him, what
he
was
175
doing, especially
us.
We
his
was on
It
face
and
to
in his eyes, as
he talked to
is
us before he
esting
went away.
had
inter-
think of the
the world
last
glimpse
the
for
of Christ
ever from
before
cloud enfolded
Him
and hid
Him
men's view.
He
was in
It
lifted
up,
and words of love and grace were falling from His lips, that He began
to rise.
It is
no fancy
to believe that
of Christ
This earth
Jesus went
is
not
away into heaven, but His life was not ended when He vanished We do not see from human sight.
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us
He
real
to us to think
first
The
reach
face
will
we
be
when we
home
Master.
we
love Christ.
We
are exhorted to
seated
on the
our
right
hand of
that
God.
are
to
we
duties,
spending
angels
our
time
spiritual
left
raptures while
our work
undone.
The
ward gazing and turned their thoughts to the duties that were waiting.
Pensive gazing
is
God
working
not pleasing
to
far
When
we are forbidden to sorrow in a way that would keep us from Our Master wants duty and service.
us to go back to our tasks again after
a bereavement, thoughtful and serious,
by
heavenly
hopes,
but
ready
ever for
earthly duties.
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