The cross and passion : Good Friday addresses . , blood-stainedcross were indeed plain in our sight, andwe look into his face. The blessed Saviour, who as on this daydid endure the trial and the mocking, theshame and the smiting; who was betrayed 7 ITnttobuctor^ Hbbress and forsaken, who was scourged andcrowned with thorns, who hung upon thebitter cross, — may he help us and blessus, as we watch with him this hour. Darkness was over all the earth; dark-ness is in our hearts, the darkness of un-belief, of indifference, of worldliness, ofsin, — may he, the Light, enlighten us. His hands and feet
The cross and passion : Good Friday addresses . , blood-stainedcross were indeed plain in our sight, andwe look into his face. The blessed Saviour, who as on this daydid endure the trial and the mocking, theshame and the smiting; who was betrayed 7 ITnttobuctor^ Hbbress and forsaken, who was scourged andcrowned with thorns, who hung upon thebitter cross, — may he help us and blessus, as we watch with him this hour. Darkness was over all the earth; dark-ness is in our hearts, the darkness of un-belief, of indifference, of worldliness, ofsin, — may he, the Light, enlighten us. His hands and feet were sore and bleed-ing, pierced with nails,—may we this hourconsecrate our hands to minister unto him,and our feet to walk in the straight wayof his commandments. Let us kneel, and each in the silencethink of that scene until it is plain andreal. Let us join the little company ofloving and faithful disciples who from afarbehold it. Let us look into the face ofJesus, and make our hearts ready to hearwhat he shall speak. 8 Zbc first Morb. I. UR Lord had had no foodand no sleep. At midnight \the crowd had seized him,and since then there hadbeen no rest for him inbody or mind. He was walking in the wayof sorrows. He had been given up into the hands ofhis enemies by one of his own friends, Iwho had betrayed him with a kiss. An-other follower and friend, a confidentialfriend, whom he had brought nearer tohim than most of the others, and who hadbeen more outspoken and earnest thanany of them in his professions of loyalty,and had declared that though all shouldforsake him, yet would he never forsakehim, he would die first, he said,—thisfriend had protested, even with cursingand swearing, that he had never so muchas seen him before. And Jesus had heardthe hard words of denial. All had turnedagainst him. The wealth, the dignity,the power, the learning, even the reli- II Zhc Cross anb passion gion of his day had joined in the the common people, the working folk,for w
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