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ter to a certain boot dealer for a pair of boots. A few days later Mr. Spurgeon was passing the boot shop and the dealer called him in. “I had a strange thing the other day,” he said, “A boy came here and asked for a pair of boots, saying his brother had sent him, and when I asked him who his brother was, he said you were.” “That is right,” said Mr. Spurgeon, “and he is your brother, too, and if you like we will share the cost of the boots.” The cross makes all who trust Christ, children of God, John 1 : 12 . Brooks. driven back to the heart thundered again in His ears. Slow strangulation with clutch ing fingers gripped at His throat. The eyes were dimmed with unshed tears and filled, with pains that lanced and stabbed them. The nerves repeated every sensa tion of the overcrowded brain and mul tiplied their consciousness a millionfold. The heat of His body became as the flame of an inward raging fire. The lungs were without a ir; the lips dry and cracked. He suffered all the agony of hanging; all the horror of the rack; all the torture of the stake. And who can convey the agony of His SOUL? Because He was infinite, the agony was infinite—the equivalent for infi nite punishment of sin.—Haldeman. The unfathomable depths of human depravity and the infinite heights of divine love are both disclosed at Calvary.—Torrey. The crucifixion of Jesus was - unconsciously avenged by the Romans, who after the fall of Jerusalem crucified so many Jews that there was neither wood for the crosses nor room to set them up.—Dummelow. Cast lots. Professed disciples still seek their own petty interests at the very foot of the cross.—Torrey. His earthly life began with His laying aside the garments of divine glory and ended Kvith rude legionaries parting His raiment among them.—Maclaren. The shame of nakedness
"It is related of the late Mr. Spurgeon that on one occasion he found a boy on the streets, ragged and hungry. Taking the boy along home with him, the good pastor fed and clothed him, then kneeling down, prayed for the friendless boy as only he could pray. Several times in the prayer he spoke to God as our Father. When the prayer was finished the boy said “Did you say our father,?” “Yes, my boy.” “Is He yours and mine?” “Yes,” was the reply. “Then we are brothers?” broke in the boy. “Yes,” gravely replied the pastor, then he talked with him of the Lord Jesus Christ, By K. L T HEY bring Him (v. 22). Lit. “bear or carry.” They had to hold Him up. The blessed Servant had spent His strength. What appearance He must have presented! —Gaebelein. Golgotha. A grinning skull is all there is left of man’s plans of salvation by evolution—a fit place for God to begin His salvation.—K. B. The place of death becomes a place of life and from the morn ful soil where bones of evil doers lay bleaching, springs up-the fountain of the water of eternal life.—Maclaren, v. 23. Wine-myrrh— received it not. Jesus tasted it, but would not drink it because He would die for the sin of the world with all His faculties of mind unim paired.—Dummelow. He will drink to the dregs the cup the Father has given Him. —Sel. y. 24. They crucified Him. Calvary becomes the center of an agony no tongue can describe—when earth shivers with an icy blast of fear; heaven turns black as night and hell itself is paralyzed with the horror of its own expression. The down pour of a cloudless sun pelted its burning rays upon His uncovered head. His head was crowned with thorns, each thorn stab bing Him like a knife. A great nail went splinteringly through His crossed ankles into the Wood. A nail tore through the fibres and muscles of each hand. The blood COMMENTS FROM
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