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silver. It is said, in connection with this betrayal, that at a certain time “ Satan entered into him.” And then after the bargain was consummated by the delivery of the price and Jesus had been taken, Judas, smitten with remorse, went out to find the blackness o f an awful night. It was more than a physical darkness, for it covered his soul as well as his eyes. He dared npt face life without the Christ he had betrayed. And as he groped in the darkness, the only thing he could find was a hangman’s rope. And by means of that rope, he flung himself into eternity. Judas had gone to the devil. N ot L eft A lone W e may not be Judases all, who for silver will sell God’s Christ. But do not forget that Christ is God’s last link with man. And when you sever that link by rejecting that Christ, the whole chain o f mercy and goodness and love breaks, and you crash to the bottom o f an endless eter nity without God. Remember that Jesus Christ is God’s world-wide effort not to leave you alone. He has remembered you— in Christ. He has planned for you— in Christ. He has died for you— in Christ. He has spoken to you— in Christ. He has come to you— in Christ. Heed Him in this day o f privilege, lest you be left alone throughout all eternity with the dreadful remembrance that God remembered you, but you would not remember Him.
without the third chapter of John or the twenty-third and twenty-fourth chapters o f Luke? Without this word of divine authority, life with its needs and tragedies would be pervaded with a loneliness and a blackness o f despair almost impossible to imagine. T he I nevitable O utcome Thus left without God, we should be left to ourselves. It is one o f the absolute laws o f the natural world and of human life that anything left to itself degenerates. It is reported that the Finnish courts have upheld the title of the will o f an atheist who bequeathed his farm, on his death, to the devil: “ In accordance with the finding o f the court, the wish o f the deceased is to be carried out by leaving the land absolutely untouched by human hands and allowing it to revert to the wilderness condition.” The conclusion reached by this court reminds us that to let a farm or a man go to the devil, all that need be done is to leave them alone. When God leaves us alone, He leaves us to our selves; and left to ourselves, by an inviolate law o f life, we are left to go to the devil. The fields so bequeathed by this Finn were soon overrun with wild grass and weeds. Man is no exception to the rule— left to himself, he goes to the devil. Judas Iscariot walked in the intimate counsels of Christ for three years. With apparently evil purposes, he de cided to betray Christ, and sold Him for thirty pieces of
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