Show I The Book By Dj Bruce Barton MARY RY STA STANDS DS Doubtless the family had to practice practice practice tice self-denial self in ord order T that Jesus might have time for study Doubtless Doubtless Doubt Douht less hi his hig mother Mary wa wall often disturbed by hy His tits dreamy absorption apparent lack Jack of or in interest interest in- in in- in interest In Ideas Ills terest in what they should eat what tIlE thep l should drink and wherewithal 1 v. v m ho KO hn clothed though h after arter they s mou J J Josephs Joseph's death lIe He took up the burden burden burden bur bur- den of or family support and carried 11 tL until the younger were old enough to stand alone It was not merely as lS the carpenters that the lithe carpenter carpente son but a as I He lie was known I Thero were times when she alma was troubled about times when sly wondered whether He lie could be quite ri right hl in Ills His mind times like Jlko I that awful da day of or Ills visit to Nazareth Nazareth Na Na- Na-I Na zareth when her spirit must hava hav I been rent asunder by 1 ot of the e forces which were arrayed against of ot tragic premonition Him and a what these would finally finall accomplish against lu hir r beloved Son Yet troubled ed and even she did not surrender Of hose those who stood firm firmat at the end a large proportion were women and she leads lends them all Hanging there in agony upon tho the cross l II gave His us last thought to her future safety and comfort Now there stood by the cross cross' a of Jesus his mother W hen JI J sus US therefore saw his mother and anel the pl standing by whom he loed he hc saith unto his mother lOther Woman behold thy son Then saith he to the disciple Behold thy mother And from that hour that disciple John took her liner unto his liis own home We Ve are not given the record of or her later years but they must have been beautiful in faith and self self- sacrifice for the devotion of ot those members g of the curly arly e church grew gre constantly more ten tender er and their revel ence mon mOll exalted Only a beautiful spirit could have inspired such adoration She is nobler beyond be be- b beyond yond jond comparison than any of or theother the other r women of the Bible and the tho women on the whole stand higher in the splendor of the faith than the men Not one unworthy woman woman woman wo wo- man appears in the tragedy of the th I crucifixion Not she Ehe with traitorous kiss her stung Not she denied Him thin with unholy unholy unholy un un- holy tongue She he when apostles shrank danger bravo Last 1 at the cross crass and earliest at the time grave |