transgressions and bruised for our iniquities, and that with His stripes we are healed.
Let us diligently follow the example of His patience in all the trials and afflictions of life, and specially in those which may be brought upon us by religion. When He was reviled, He reviled not again ; when He suffered. He threatened not, but committed Himself to Him that judgeth righteously. Let us arm ourselves with the same mind. Let us consider Him who endured such contradiction of sinners without a murmur, and strive to glorify Him by suffering well, no less than by doing well.
The second portrait in the picture before us, is thai of the unhelieviiig Jews who favored our ILord^s death.
We see them for three or four long hours obstinately rejecting Pilate's offer to release our Lord, — fiercely de- manding His crucifixion, savagely claiming His con- demnation to death as a right, — persistently refusing to acknowledge Him as their King, — declaring that they had no King but Caesar, — and finally accumulating on their own heads the greater part of the guilt of His mur- der. Yet these were the children of Israel and the seed of Abraham, to whom pertained the promises and the Mosaic ceremonial, the temple sacrifices and the temple priesthood. These were men who professed to look for a Proi:)het like unto Moses, and a son of David who was to set up a kingdom as Messiah. Never, surely, was there such an exhibition of the depth of human wicked- ness since the day when Adam fell.
Let us mark with fear and trembling the enormous danger of long-continued rejection of light and knowl- edge. There is such a thing as judicial blindness ; and it is the last and sorest judgment which God can send upon men. He who, like Pharaoji and Ahab, is often re-