This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ... The Funeral Of Jesus TWO spectacles are common to every class, and have affected the mind in every age. The one is the public celebration of joy--a wedding; the other of sorrow --a funeral; both are the witness of love. At their approach they arrest instant attention, and cast their spell on the most callous ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ... The Funeral Of Jesus TWO spectacles are common to every class, and have affected the mind in every age. The one is the public celebration of joy--a wedding; the other of sorrow --a funeral; both are the witness of love. At their approach they arrest instant attention, and cast their spell on the most callous people. Pure hearts wish happiness to the bride in her whiteness, whether she be princess or peasant; kindly hearts pray God's consolations for the mourners in their black, whether it be Darby following Joan to her rest, or young children weeping for their lost mother. He is altogether heartless who is not gladdened or solemnised by these mysteries of human life, brought before one as in a sacrament. They represent the poles of feeling, yet they are not equal in power, for the sacrament of lamentation has an altogether peculiar majesty. Should the two processions meet at the gate of the churchyard, whither we all come in our chief moments, it is the children of joy who yield to the children of sorrow. Before the signs of loss and woe gladness bows her head and departs; the poorest funeral is invested with the awful and omnipotent authority of death. Among all the funerals ever seen on the earth surely the most pathetic was that of Jesus. His very body, tortured and pierced, belonged not to His mother and His friends, but to His enemies, and He had not, what the humblest Galilean would have, a place of burial. Having bought the souls of men from the power of the enemy with His own precious blood, His earthly Body had to be redeemed, as we guess, with silver and gold, from a Roman magistrate; and having opened the Kingdom of Heaven to all believers with His pierced hand, a rich man had to afford Him the hospitality of a tomb. What a sad irony...
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