T HE K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S through a single text which was read to her she had somehow grasped the mercy of God. “He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities.” Her friends were gathered around her bedside, and she lay so still that they thought her dead. But presently • she opened her eyes, stretched out one hand, and with the forefinger of the other pointed to her palm. “There is no mark here,” she said; then, pointing upwards, “He was woundied for my transgressions; He was bruised for my iniquities.” She lay silent a little longer and again spoke. Putting her hand to her brow she said, “There are no thorns here”; and, pointing up added, "He was wounded for my transgressions.” Again her eyes closed, ' and they thought she had passed away. But a third* time she looked up, and clasping her hands across her breast, said, “There is no spear-wound here,” and pointing up as before, “He was wound ed for my transgressions." She then passed from eiarth. Golden Text Illustration. — Count Zinendorf was the second founder of the Moravian Church. He had, from a child, been a seeker after God, but only walking in the twilight, as it were, until one day the Sun of Righteousness shone upon him, in all the glory of His redeeming love. Zinzendorf was look ing at a picture of the Crucifixion, bearing the inscription, “This have I done for thee; what hast thou done for Me?” As the young man gazed at the face of the Saviour in His agony, the whole story of .redeeming love came home to him with such constraining force and power of appeal, that he gave himself to-his Divine Lord, to love and serve Him only from that day forth. v. 33. Place of a skull. It is a l most universally accepted now that the skull-like hill on the north side of the city, outside of the Damascus Gate, is
270 Subject Ijesson.—-God is great in Sinai. Thfr thunders precede Him, the lightenings attend Him, the earth trembles, the mountains fall in frag ments. But there LESSON is a greater God ILLUSTRATION .than this. On Cal- W. H. Pike. vary, nailed to a c r o s s , wounded, thirsting, dying, He cries, “Father for give them, they know not what they do.” Great is the religion of power, but greater the religion of love. Great is the religion of implacable justice, but greater is the religion of pardoning mercy.—Senor Castelar. Solter says, “They that can take the cross cheerfully on their own backs shall find it just such a burden as wings to a bird or sails to a ship.” Bible Illustration.—In Numbers 21: 6-9, the people murmured and God sent fiery serpents among them. The people confessed they had sinned and asked Moses to pray for them. Moses did pray and God said, “Lift up a brass serpent upon a pole. Every one that looks upon it shall find mercy and heal ing.” We are a sadly bitten race by sin. In our perishing condition we cry out to God and He says “Behold the Lamb of Go'd which taketh away the sin of the world.” Life Out of Death.—We do not sail to glory in the salt sea of our own tears, but in the red sea of a Redeem er’s blood. “The Cross of Christ is the key of Paradise.” We owe the life of our souls to the death of our Saviour. It was His going into the furnace that keeps us from the flames. Man lives by death; his natural life is preserved by the death of animal and vegetable life. Man’s spiritual life is preserved by the death of the Redeemer. Prof. Henry Drummond tells of a young woman in one of our hospitals who lay ill. She had previously led a very wicked life. She grew worse and her friends were sent for. It appeared that,
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