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spake greater and more secret things than in His own person, is literally true. Christ did speak greater, because full and complete things, through His own person. To take the position that that alone is to be received as the Gospel which we find fully and finally stated by Christ Himself (and this seems to bé thè platform of the modern rejection of a large part of what the Church has always received as the Gospel) is to ignore the plan of the teaching of Christ and to deny the gift of the Holy Spirit. b. Christ not silent as to the Cross. But Christ is not so silent about His death as is commonly alleged. The first fact that strikes one in going through the Four Gospels is the amount of space devoted to the account of Christ’s death. One-third of Matthew, two-fifths of Mark, one-fourth of Luke and One-half of John are given up to the recital of the events of the last week of our .Lord’s 'life, Of the twenty-one chapters of John nine are devoted to the events of the last twenty-four hours of the life of Christ. Here is a biographical curiosity which has no parallel in literature and history. In no biography ever written does the man’s death 1 take thé place that thé death of Christ takes in the Four Gospels. Among the events of the life of Christ, His death assumes à lonely significance. Only Matthew and Luke tell of thé* birth 1 Of Christ; only two Gospels give US thè Ser mon dn the Mount; from the Gospel of John there are omitted Such* gréât events as the Temptation, the Trans figuration, the institution of the Lord’s Supper, and the Ascension into heaven. But all Four Gospels relate with fullness of detail the betrayal, agony, arrest, trial and death of Christ.' In Sir John Bowring’s great hymn on the Cross we sing of it as “ Towering o’er the wrecks of time.” It does tower, o’er the wrecks of time, hut only because it towérs over all otlier fads’ related in the Gospels. The Central Theme If the writers of thè Gospels gave such prominence to the death of Christ, it must have been because of what Jesus Himself said about His death and His constant attitude towards the Cross. We find that the Cross was present with Him from the Very beginning. At the first Passover He said, “ Destroy this temple and in throe days I will build it again,” meaning the temple of His own body. To wonder ing Nicodemus He said, “ As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up.” To His disciples, disputing about their rank, He said, “ The Son of man .came not to be ministered unto( but to minister and to give His life a ransom for many.” : In the beautiful allegory of the Good Shepherd He says that He is the. Good Shepherd who lays down His life for the sheep. When on the Mount of Transfiguration He met the two great repre sentatives of the old dispensation, Moses and Elijah, the theme which He discussed with them was His atonement, “ His decease which He should accomplish at Jerusalem.” In addition to such references as these, we are told that Jesus took the disciples apart and told them plainly about His approaching betrayal and death and resurrection, and then added, “ Let these sayings sink into your hearts.” These sayings about His death did sink into their hearts, and that is the reason why the death of Christ takes the place it does in the Gospels. Nor can we forget the important instruction which Jesus gave His disciples during the forty days between His death and His ascension. From the brief records we have of that instruction the one theme about which Jesus dis coursed was His death and the meaning of it, how Christ ought to have suffered these things and tb have entered
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