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9 m THE (PULPIT, AN ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY THE REV. EARL E. CLEELAND. k Subject: Christ in Gethscmanc. . Brooklyn, N. Y.?Sunday morning, in the Classon Avenue Presbyterian Church, the assistant pastor, .ev. . .'Earl E. Cleeland, preached on. % "Christ in Gethsemane." Among * -other things he said: The text to which I ask your attention is found in the twenty-sixth chapter of Matthew, at the thirty; ninth verse: "My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass away from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as Thou wilt," which are the words, , :as Matthew has recorded them, of the thrice repeated prayer of our .Lord In the place called uetnsemane. ;You recall the account of the Last Supper of the Lord with His disciples, and the dark rcene in Gethseniane which immediately followed. Telling the disciples to "sit ye here ? while I go yonder and praj%" Jesus "took with him Peter and the two Sons of Zebeaee" (James and John), * "and began to be sorrowful and sore troubled. Then saith He unto tuem, 4My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even iHinto death; abide ye here and watch with Me.' And He went forward a little and fell on His face and prayed, saying: 'My Father, if it be possible let this cup pass away from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as T hou wilt.' " The gospel according to Luke goes on to tell us that then "there appeared unto Him an angel from heaven, strengthening Him, and ibeing in an agony He prayed more earnestly, and His sweat became as it were great drops of blood falling down upon the ground." I choose this text to-day as the .result of a conversation some ten days ago, with one of the members of this church, and at the outset I want >to acknowledge my indebtedness to .. him for the suggestion of this ser mon. i .Many passages, in Scripture, are | variously interpreted and differently r1 understood by Christian people, and ? students of the Bible especially, and J* often one wr'T find that the great commentators themselves are almost ^diametrically opposed to each other ,'Il. the interpretations which they !make. I find that our text to-day is one of those disputed passages. SevemjpT the authorities' which*! - hate consulted In the study .of iZti.6 prayer of Cfc rist Gethsemane took the ;view that Jesus feared,-and recoiled at the thought of - His approaching ^.death oifc the cross* and:thas prayed ' .to God, bis Father, trying, if it iwere possible, to bend His will, and jhare ihe %nd accompllfehed bV some other way than- the crdss. ' Only t>ne 1 commentator, as I. recall . now, took Sithe vieaf that .our Lord's agonized "wiprayef was' Instigated by the overthought that fte'^Pearejf ? **neath The strain of mental suffering < !He -was- undergoing, before He ; reached the cross, and thuy He ' ,! prayed that this cup pass away from ' TTM0AT"' r- IT?, * ^he jnajority of Christian people, i I believe, and -a-s I find; more of the4 coimienjfrators do, attribute Chrilt's V [suffering in Gethsemane" to the weakIness of His fle?h, . or... humanity, to iface the death that was before Him, and thav Internrpt our text in this 5SO'* " r r ;" I am inclined, however, to cast my lot with the minority, and interpret [.Christ's prayer as a plea to God for strength, that His life would not be .crushed cut underneath His terrible 4 *agony before the time ^ appointed ^ .through all the ages of prophecy before Him?that of .His atonement on the cress for the sins of men. And inx treating this passage let it be understood that anything I may say " has doubtless been said hundreds of r times before.. I only wish to try to show, from Scripture, my position, and therefore make no claims. I see no necessity of exercising our imaginations in endeavoring to show mysterious causes for our Lord's state of mind in this prayer, when the reason for His agitation is plainly given in the Scriptural account itself. But now about this prayer of our Lord in the garden of Gethsemane. It seems incredible almost to think that Christian people will attribute less courage to the Son of God than they have seen in hundreds of examples of fearlessness through all the i . centuries past. Thins of the. thousands of people who have unflinchingly faced death and died ?>martyr's death with scarcely a quiver. And * it would be almost irreverent in us at such a time as this to think of the numerous cases of criminals who walk with unfaltering steps to the ; electric chair or asdend the gallows with all appearance of calmness. Some commentators, as has already been said, interpret this prayer '-.as a revolting or halting of Christ -at the thought of the approaching -crucifixion, and the horrors which preceded it, and attendant to it; the ' betrayal of Judas;' Jeter's denial, and ithe desertion of His disciples and all 'JEis followers; the humiliating trial, ''and insults of the rabble, and the . lingering death on the cross. That Jfegffae because. :o.t: the- horrors of .all <pthese things that Christ, here meant ,|ta ask God if there wrs riot some * i other way of atoning for the sins of jr men, and that Christ only yielded'"to Ithefcross to fulfill His Fathers will. These who advocate this view would thus make it out that our Lord , forgot for the moment, by reason o'f His suffering, the prophecies, and. _ the S plan of God in His redemption of I the world, throughout the history of ' Israel; or if Christ did not forget j* that He tried to bend His Father's will to an atonement by some otner s way, and that Christ finally? after * three unsuccessful attempts to bend ? God's will, yielded to the cross. > Why Christian people try to explain away this" prayer in any such \ ' a,weak way is. difficult to understand. '"What doe% Christianity want ,with a * weak Christ who feared a martyr's dfeath?" Ohr Lord was "a man of sor' rows and acquainted with grief," and had- been for three years preparing for the cross, and had on several occasions before this told His disciples of the manner gf His death, and they could not understand at the time. To my mind, this prayer of Jesus * . / shows, on the contrary, the "bravery of our Lord, and does not -show any weakness. I am inclined to think that Christ had no thought of the cross during the time in which He made this prayer, save in His remote consciousness; >but He was, just at that moment, fearful that His mortal body would succumb to the terrible strain He was- passing through, during this awful hour in Gethsemane. He felt that Lis life would be crushed out by this terrible agony, before He reached the cross, for does not one of the accounts tell us Christ's own words, "My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death," and another that, "being in agony, He prayed more earnestly; and His sweat became as it were great drops of blood falling down upon the ground." And God heard and answered His prayer by' sending an angel from heaven, strengthening Him. Jesus was not. here, seeking to bend His Father's will, but asking God for strength to reach the cross, and God sent an angel in answer to I that prayer. This is the scriptural I account of why our Lord was ;n agon This cup, which Christ was drinking to the dregs, was the cup of God's wrath upon the sins,of men. Christ was drinking the bitterness of the cup in our stead. His bloody sweat was a sprinkling, an anticipated atonement, upon the very ground which had been "cursed" because of man's sin. No imagination can feel, no words can describe the agony that Christ had to bear in Gethsemane. So why need we search our imaginations and try to manufacture mysterious explanations why Christ made this prayer when the answer, and reason for the prayer, is given in the very account itself, in the necessity of the angel's appearance? When Jesus said, "not My will, but Thine, be done,'" He resigned Hxmself to God's will. If He sLould die of agony, it was God's will, but V.e prayed that this cup should pass from 1 ;m. But His atoning death was not to be there in Gethsemane, in the night, but He was to be lifted upon the cross of Calory in order that all men would be drawn unto Him. *' : . " > "^e know that Christ's was a sensitive natture but this is not- saying that He was not brave. And there is no reason to believe that He, in anti - - < TT._ !J . J J Cipanon 01 ms ueaiii. wuuiu jriciu to the thought any more than an ordinary mah. f So, therefore, because lie suffered "even unto death.^ as He did. in the? Qarden of Gethafemane,'is in ii^jelf a$ "argument thafcHe was' bearing more''than-thfe-anticipation. , ? So, therefore* let us not confohtfd Christ's suffering in Gethsemane to 3 lack of fortitude or bravery, ?ur Lord was no stoic. He here felt fhat His physical, body.-was gifWg Vay upder an agony whiclr no language can describe. t # Throughout' the whole Old Testament period^God.- under the rLevii|cal code o? laws,, educ&tpd His ehdsen people to the fact, thai without the sheading- of- blood -there-Bras-?o, remission of sins. All these forms of sacrificial atonement M 'tftfe' sins of"Israel w^re typical of Christ, the Lambi'of God. And.cap it...he soiftposed forone moment that -our -Ltmudid hot fully realize this in tyejkhfMBnane'? -'And-thrAtiglk>ut--tfce whole New Testament gospel, it is' plafWy stated , iL.i everywnere tuauuui ycatr imuueu the blood ol the cross. vSurely then that great Paschal Lamb of Gcd that was to take away the sins of the world did not hesitate nor falter at the approoach of the atonement by the shedding of Kis blood upon toe cross. It was for the jcy that -as set before Him that He endured the cross and despised shame, and He won thereby His seat at the right hand of the throne of God. The staggering of Christ's physical body underneath ' this tremendous burden ?ust not be mistaken.for a faltering of kis will. The Bible. This Book unfolds Jehovah's mind. This Voice salutes in accents kind. This Fountain has its source on high. This Friend will all you need supply. This Mine affords us boundless wealth. This Good Physician gives us health. This Sun renews and warms the soul. This Sword both wounds and makes us whole. This Letter shows our sins forgiven. This Guide conducts us safe to' heaven. This Charter has been sealed with blood; This Volume is the Word of God. God's Best. It is impossible to rush into God's presence, catch up anything we fancy, and run off with it. . To attempt, this will end in mere delusion and disappointment. Nature will not unveil her rarest beauty to t'ae chance tour - ?^ - -i ISC. flCllires^ wuicu iue icsuu yjt. j a life work do not disclose their secret leveliness to the saunterer down a gallery, No character can be read at a giaaee. And God's best cannot be ours apart from patient waiting in His holy presence* yriies,tfeeRev. F. B. Meyer. The superficial may-be put off with a parable^a. pretty story, but it is not given to'such to kffow the mysteries of the Kingdom' of Heaven -Ram's Horn. ; & / Work on Your Knees. A clergyman, walking on the public highway, observed a poor man breaking stcnes, , and kneeling (the while so that he might be able tcvdo it more effectually. Passing him ?nd saluting him, he remarked: "Ah, John, I wish I could b?eak the stony hearts of my hearers'." as easily as you "are breaking those stones." "Perhaps, master," he said, "you do not work on y5ur *knees." Prayer brings down the power that can break the. flintiest heart.?Chris* tian Commonwealth. .* >? * *-- " * ~ "*A \ J :' " _ 'V Revealed by Love Alone. . Intellect may give keenness of discernment. Love alone gives largeness to the nature, some share in the comprehensiveness of God. ? John Hamilton Thorn. ? 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