oncerning man the
sufferer spoke what "they" did unto Him; but He also addresses God
"THOU hast brought me into the dust of death."

And thus He suffered and died for us. Our sins were laid upon Him
and He bore them in His own body on the tree. At what an infinite
cost we have been redeemed! What a price has been paid! The Father
did not spare His only begotten Son, but delivered Him up for us
all. The Son of God, was made sin for us, smitten, stricken and
forsaken of God.

Jehovah bade His sword awake--
O Christ, it woke 'gainst thee!
Thy blood the flaming blade must slake;
Thy heart its sheath must be--
All for my sake, my peace to make;
Now sleeps that sword for me.

The Holy God did hide His face--
O Christ, 'twas hid from thee!
Dumb darkness wrapt thy soul a space--
The darkness due to me.
But now that face of radiant grace
Shines forth in light on me.

Wonderful Love! But how unable we are to realize adequately these
blessed facts! How little after all we think of these marvellous
things and how weak is our devotion to that blessed, loving Lord,
who loved us thus!

And what do we behold about us? An ever increasing darkness; a
turning away from the blessed Gospel of the Son of God as it centers
in the Cross; a greater rejection and neglection of the great
salvation which God has so graciously provided in the great
sacrifice. It is fearful to see the enemies of the cross increasing
and rushing on to their coming doom. What is to be our attitude? It
is for us to glory more and more in the cross of Christ. We must
exalt and magnify the Person and Work of our blessed Lord as never
before. The more He is rejected by the world, His blessed work on
the cross disowned in such latter day delusions as the new theology,
Christian Science and the numerous other systems, the more we must
give Him the pre-eminence.

But it means also for us if we are faithful to Him the fellowship of
His sufferings. God has called us into the fellowship of His Son
Jesus Christ our Lord. This includes the fellowship of His
sufferings. Never, of course, suffering from God as He did. But as
He is rejected and despised so are we called to share His rejection
and take upon us His reproach. He suffered without the gate and the
Word exhorts us "Let us go forth therefore unto Him without the
camp, bearing His reproach." In these last days we must like Moses
"esteem the reproach of Chri