Show THIS and THAT contributed tragedy surely to all the world s history and annals of crime the crucifixion of jesus Is the most tragic and diabolical and men and devils perpetrated and carried it to its finish it was and Is specifically humanity s crime was it because jesus was the product of god and the human race that god has mercifully and graciously accepted his death as an offering for the very men that nailed him to the tree you have killed the prince of life whom god raised up to be a prince and a saviour Is the divine verdict resting upon every one of us and woe to the man that rejects that divine attitude respecting it if a man thinks there Is nothing to his life for which he should repent let him think of this for without such confession and repentance men will go to the final judgment chargeable with his death repent ye there forel doubts but a man doubts his part to and his individual responsibility for a crime committed two thousand years ago he can thus reason and doubt of course but doubts never have had the power to nullity A man Is never adjudged innocent of a crime laid at his door because he says he Is and the calendar happens not to fix the time limit for the divine adjudication of crime death has not obliterated jesus and his death does not veto his continuation to human experience through countless generations if it did we would not be thinking and writing about him and you can no more rid yourself of him than can we the jews are still working out the sentence and paying the penalty of wrongs of which the master warned them anyhow a man would save his mind many embarrassing quests about future judgments and penalties it we strove earnestly to avoid the wrong and as persistently tried to follow to the right road difficulty john Bun pilgrim halted at the hill difficulty upon investigating the way around the hill he found it safer to climb then too the byways were brought with danger and the path before him led straight up over the hill the hill was high and rocky and hard to climb at times he almost lost his footing but as he climbed ie became less weary the hill less difficult and when he finally reached the top he found himself wonderfully refreshed and strengthened that hill 1 always has had a wonderfully quality but say you make folks believe that any fool will tell you that he knows that it Is much easier to go down than it is to go up and some of them indeed very many of them go down from choice the easy way tips if there Is any place to lodge it here Is a truism that we might all tuck away under our hats god almighty does not go about taking vengeance upon sinners by killing them if he did many of us would never have grown up paul did not die a natural death but that was not his fault and not god s will paul carried a sound mind and a clean body to the going george washington we ought not to look back unless it Is to derive useful lessons from past errors and for the purpose of profiting from dear bought experiences abraham lincoln let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it woodrow wilson scholarship has usually been more fruitful when associated with religion and scholarship has never so far as I 1 can been associated with any religion except the religion of jesus christ |