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Books of the Bible
I p k in Gen sis, and said,
•'t there be light,'' and d:u ness fled.
.:xodua, '\t hi3 command,
I J3r I tied f~om Egypt's land.
b•tr laws, and what their tribes befell,
I •vtttcus and Numbers tell.
•O·J 'l l10l7 wilr again we s e
ontaincd in Deuteronomy.
'l i11•n i !low Joshua, .Tudgcs, Ruth,
TwQ books of Samuel from his youth,
n 1 t-¥0 of Kings, the record pl::U11
(>f m~ny good and e>il reign.
'> b·)Oks of Chronide3 tell o'er
l':n t monarch 's hi •or:· heard before­h
•ir nobl d edd of n.lor done,
b.cir !uJ.ny battl~s fough and 'won.
ni1tM; wor·ls OUr he:lrtS inspir
~ '•om }<~zra and from • -chemiah,
An.t Klth r shows the w:~ys of God,
W!u!n Jo r ceiv0d the chastening rod.
Tho l'3alms lift up tho soul with praise,
And Proverbs t :t~h in homely pltr:t:Je,
l ;,.d\'St stes n xt comes on,
J ud then the ong of Solomon.
I":J.i.dt now, with ~ision clear,
I:el•nfd'! promised "'avior ncar,
W"ti:o} .J remi h li.f:.s on high.
' r h~!l. I 's race, his humble cr:v:
!< LJ.:nentations p:1ints hi.; grict •
Tl:at Zion weeps ni>r iiuJs relief.
F!ze · iel, D:~.niel, ea h rePorol
Ta • -;vondrous dcalin~'l of the Lord.
llo'l •a, Joel, Amos, too,
And Obadiah, prophct3 true,
0 'cr I.:~racl 's faithless nation ycarn,
Aud warn from evil to return.
Turn .Jonah, Micah, ~altum show
GoJ '• t nder lovo anJ threatened woe.
Habakkuk prays in words sublime,
'l'hat nng through !l.ll succeeding time.
N •xt ':"phamnh, Haggai,
'l'lu:u Zechariah, M l:lchi,
Anu we h!l.V' passe.} in close review
l'r(Jm • ncient Jcriptt:rt! to the new.
An•l T•v7f :1. Savior's birth behold,
In l'.f ltth·~W '3 gosprl sweetly to rd.
M Lr!.:, Luke, ann John his works di~close,
Il:., .111ffcring , dc:~.th, and how he rose.
I11 _\ct.> the Holy Ghost deseenJd,
And f!hrist hid kingdom wide extend-'o
I i:.Jmans, lo! the Apostle Paul
CornmNtda the gift of God to all.
Corwthian3 and G:J.latians show
'i'l•e ::;-r3.N' tilat every soul may know.
l<!pllct~talll! an·l Phihppi:lDS t<'ll
The - 'al hi:~ lifo por~r· ;;ed so we 11.
( •>lol!::;i:lns, Thessalvni:m" speak
•f il·lPIJ nd comfvrt to the weak.
1 • Timothy, r:lUl 's ch:trge we find;
In Titus, fri ndship arm and kind
l'hi.icmo,;. sho how Jove constrain ,
Whd' Hebrews all th types explains.
Witb. J mea and ro••r, John and Jude,
'An l cvebtion we conclude
1'h hooks th'\t in God's Word di>ine
LttHl dt .. ua of cutlle,s glory shine.
-Fannie J. Crosby.
To sec Jesus clearly with the eye of f:Uth is
to see the deep opening a way from Egypt to
freedom's shore; is to sec the water gush full
and sparkling from the desert roek; is to sec
the serpent gleaming on its pole over a dying
camp; is to sec the life-boat coming when our
bark i~ thumping on the bank, or ground on
ro ks by foaming breakers; it is to cc a pardon
when the noo is round our neck, and our feet
i on the drop. No sight in the wide world
like Jesus Christ, with forgiveness on his lips,
and a crown in his blessed hand! This is worth
laboring for; praying for; living for: suffering
fo r ; dying for. - Dr. Guthrie..
The Cross of Christ
BY JOliN . BW:~·;xy
C1LL~tcreJ arounJ the cross are the m t po­tent
and sublime fact in the great sehcme of
man's redemption. The cross of 'hri.st stands
in the center of all that pertain to man's
present and future happiness. Though an in­strumep.
t of death, it bas been the means of life
to the world. Though an instr ument of the
most exquisite t orture, it has become the gate­way
to joys unspeakable and full of glory.
'rbough the most ignominious form of plmish­ment,
and usually employed to execute only the
lowest of criminals and the meanest among
slave , yet it has become the mcilium through
which greater luster has been added to the ef­fulgent
glory of the Son of God, and through it
a crown of glory is waiting for cvc<'Y on of
his faithful followers.
'l'hough it was a cause of l'cproach to the
family as well as to the indiviJual who u!Tv"d
death upon it, yet it has been sanctified as a
means to elevate us to a lofty plane in the
holi'st calling and to the highest honor pos-ible
for man to attain. It is ~ublime because
it is the center, the goal, the Yery core o all
faith, all divine law, all prophecy and revealed
truth. It has directly and indirectly colored
the expression of all divinely inspired writ ·rs,
poets, and prophets.
'l'he cross of Christ point backward for forty
centuries, casting its shadow over every otTer­ing,
and sacrifice made for sin, and illumir at-
, ing the dark sayings of the ancient seers of
Jehovah. Every groan uttered by dying beasts
slain I.Jcfore patriarchal and Jewish altars was
but a faint echo of that cry of supr~mc aJony
on Calvary that found its true expression in
the worJs, "My God! my God! why hast thou
fonmkcn me1" and "It is finished.'' It points
forward more than nineteen eenturic. as the
center of attraction for every sin-burd ned
oul, the hope of the lost, and the key to all the
my tery of divine godliness and truth. round
it shines all the brightness of our 1 eavcnly
Father "s matchless kindne..<;S, mercy, pity, and
love. Through it we are r t: eoncilcd to God.
It is at once the emblem of death and liic of
alienation and reconciliation, of fooli hncss and
wisdom, of shame and glory. ._ tanding as th
central figure in all the dcalin<T of God with
inful man, it i- to the Bible tud nt, the eck­ID.
g sinner, and the humble saint, the mo t at­trac
tive object in connection with salvation, ex·
cept the person of Christ him elf.
T!te Cross as an Instrument of Death
In the deep and iJUinite wisdom of the coun­sels
of Deity it seemcJ good that the o..: on of
God should die on a cro . 'rh· form of death
was extremely painful and disgraceful, and, as
previously stated, imposed on none but those
who were considered the lowc~t among the peo­ple.
··laves were sometimes thu. punished.
Among the Jews the most ignominious form of
punishment was hanging on a tr c; '·for he
that is hanged is accursed of GoJ " (Dcut. 21 :
~0). The J ·ws themselves, it seems, did not
employ the eross as a means of ptmishmcnt;
n when they desired the d ath of J e 1s. they
dcmandeJ that he be exccntcJ in this mo t
shameful manner. Being nailed to a eros. cor­rc;;
ponded to hanging on a tree ; hence th fore
of Paul's phraseology when "-Ti ing to the
Galatians: '·Christ hath redcemcJ us from the
curse of the law, being made a curse for us :
for it i written, Cursed is every one that h, ng­eth
on a tree., (GaL 3: 131 .
Jesus carried all the curse of sin. the curse of
the law against in, the guilt of the mo. t de­grading
forms of ·in, anJ the ins of the whole
world, and bore them in his own bruised and
bcera,eJ body, nuw weakened with fas ting and
anguish. on the cro. s. After a period of untold
agony in Gethsemanc. he w ~ arre ted. lm riecl
through a mock trial. pa eJ from Pilate to
Herod, mocked and spit upon, and again turned
over to Pilate who ordered l1im to be crucified.
Let UB now follow him to Calvary. A was
cu::;tomary in the t reatment of prisoner con­demned
to be crucified. he wa ordered to