The cross and passion : Good Friday addresses . o this word of victory. It bringstwo messages: a message of warning anda message of consolation. The word warnsus in the midst of our busy lives. Someday there will be an end to all this occu-pation, and it will be finished. What will befinished ? The word comforts us in themidst of the sore trials and sorrows whichbeset us all. Jesus Christ has gone onalong the same road, and tells us where itleads. There is light and joy and infiniteblessing at the end of it. Let not yourheart, he says, be troubled; ye believein God, believe also in me. In my F
The cross and passion : Good Friday addresses . o this word of victory. It bringstwo messages: a message of warning anda message of consolation. The word warnsus in the midst of our busy lives. Someday there will be an end to all this occu-pation, and it will be finished. What will befinished ? The word comforts us in themidst of the sore trials and sorrows whichbeset us all. Jesus Christ has gone onalong the same road, and tells us where itleads. There is light and joy and infiniteblessing at the end of it. Let not yourheart, he says, be troubled; ye believein God, believe also in me. In my Fathershouse are many mansions; if it were notso, I would have told you. I go to preparea place for you. And if I go and preparea place for you, I will come again, and re-ceive you unto myself, that where I am, 67 ^be Cross anb (passion there ye may be also. . Peace I leavewith you, my peace I give unto you; notas the world giveth, give I unto you. Letnot your heart be troubled, neither let itbe afraid. 68 Xtbe Seventh Motb Zhc Seventh Morb. I. T last it is the end,—the endof his pain and of our watch-^ ing. At three oclock, Jesuscried with a loud voice, andspeaking a final word ofpeace and faith, he bowed his head anddied. Before, when he cried aloud, it was inthe moment of his desolation. God seemedto have forsaken him. The sin of the racehad come between his human soul and theface of the Father. But now when he liftshis voice again, the words are words ofconfidence and satisfaction. Again he callsGod, Father. II. When he cried, It is finished, thatwas the end, the end of the supreme sac-rifice. Now he cries again, and it is thebeginning; Jesus passes on out of his lifewhich is like our present life into thatother life which shall sometime be oursalso, but which is hidden from our eyes; 71 XTbe Cross anb passion old things are passed away, behold allthings are become new. The human life of Jesus ends with thegreat name of God. This phrase, Thename of God, means the character
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