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-Rom. XIII, 14% The return of Lent should be to the Church what the return of Spring is to nature the Season of renewal and rebirth. We unite with those who pray that the Lenten Season of, 1925 may be the springtime of souls.
The subject indicated for the first Sunday in Lent, namely spiritual renewal and rebirth, appears remote from the subject which custom enjoins. The Churches commemorate the fasting and temptation of Our Lord in the wilderness and invite us to make them the subject of our meditation
and discourse...
"Forty days and forty nights He was tempted in the wild Forty days and forty nights ́.. Tempted and yet undefiled." We must confess that such an experience of fast, conflict and triumph has no parallel in our but religious history. We can view it as something unique, unique as our Lord Himself, and give it a place among the mysteries of the Christian tradition and faith Wa may be tempted even to dismiss from our minds Lenten subjects as being without meaning for our spiritual life. -
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The three Gospels and the Fourth record the baptism of Our Lord by John Jesus bad left Nazareth and sought the herald-preacher... ** St. Mark tells us. “He was baptised by John in the Jordan. St. Matthew that the Baptist protested" but that Jesus insisted, and the 4th Gospel that John did Aot yet know Him but know Him after His baptism.
John the Baptist had announced the coming of One should baptise in the Holy Spirit as he baptised with water
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We pause to relate the voice from heaven heard at Jordon to the voice within which Jesus as a child at Nazareth recognised when He became conscious of God as, "My Father." That early re- cognition of Father" was con- firmed by the attesting voice,
My Son, dearly loved.”
The Baptist had announced the coming of a mightier than He and the Coming of the Kingdom of God. The Child Jesus had early learnt. His vocation His duty was to be His Father's business. Was that duty related to the Kingdom of God?
After His Baptism Jesus was found in the solitude of the wilderness, d
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The writers of the Gospels were wiser and more patient. Three of them record the Temptation of our Lord in the wilderness but not as
The Gospels describe Him as an impenetrable mystery They being led there by the Spirit; briefly and graphically describe it where. He remains fasting forty as an incident in the life of Jesus, days and forty, nights and is preserved we must believe not for tempted by the Devil. subsequent mystification but for in- From the conflict Jesus emerges struction. However unshared may victorious returns to Galilee and be- have been that wilderness gins His Mission, proclaiming the experience, which the Evangelists Gospel and announcing the advent relate, it was part of the spiritual of the Kingdom of God. history of Jesus, and as such can- not be neglected by those who seek in Him the way, the Truth and the Life.
De Vaca, admiring his courage above all else, cannot kill him. He spares his life and makes possible the culmination of a happy romance.
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Malabar Hill, the residential European high
attached to the Durbar of the Maharajah of Indore and brought a case .1919 against certain people in the employ of the Maharajah on the plea that her daughter had been kidnapped.
The case failed as she was unable to prove that the girl was under sixteen:
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understand that the Devil's way of winning the world for God and righteousness was not the Father's!
Later, the mother filled another complaint alleging that her way. Jesus knew that the way of conquest was through obedience quarter for to the will of God and not by officials and wealthy Indian mer- daughter was being taken to submission to the spirit of the chants, was the scene of a mur- England against. her will. world: Thou shall worship the der which is the talk of all India. police questioned the girl, who At sunset, while the hill, as is stated that she was going with Lord Thy God and Him only shalt
usual on fine evenings, was crowd- the Maharani of Indore of her. "thou serve."
Jesus passed through the ordeal, cd with Bombay citizens, Abdul own free will, and did not wish victor in the conflict, crossed the Kadir Baula, one of the richest to return to her mother. threshold and from the wilderness Mahommedan merchants and a We may not be able to pene- returned to the Galilee to pro member of the Bombay Corpora trate the mystery of Our Lord's claim "The Kingdom of God is tion, was shot dead as he was temptation but the Gospels help now close at band, believe the motoring home to dinner. With him in the car were an Indian good news." us towards some understanding
We look across the centuries, Christian companion, The older expositors treated the of the mind of Jesus at the time. desert fast and conflict as an isolat His thoughts were full of God, and what has happened since Our Matthews, and a Mahommedan ed episode. Modern scholars whom in Nazareth He knew as "My Lord's Lenten fast and tempta- woman.
The assailants, all apparently tion The God and Father of prefer to interpret itas symbolic of Father"; and whose Voice He Our Lord Jesus Christ" has been Mahommedans, were in another a confict which continued through beard at baptism-"My Son manifested. Jesus has revealed car, the driver of which deliber-
dearly loved." His thoughts were
the ministry of our Lord and ended with the triumph of the Cross. St. Mark writes, He was there in the wilderness fony days tempted by Satan." St. Luke adds that the "Devil, having fully tried every kind of temptation on Him left Him for a time. The author of Hebrews saya: He was in all points tempt ed as we are yet without sin, The Synoptist Gospels place the ordeal in the solitude of the desert, where it may be more readily understood by us as it was by the Evangelists.
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Mr. Mathews, who, was also in Baula's car, was shot in the arm, which has been amputated.
The man captured by Lieutenant Father's business and of the not. We pray, en His Son taught KNIVES AND REVOLVERS.
When both the care stopped the Sesright, who is in custody, is not Kingdom" announced by the Our Father Thy Kingdom
Come." Baptist. He stands upon the
attackers jumped out brandisha resident of Bombay, and had. threshold-of His life's mis- "The Kingdom of God" ising revolvers and knives. One 2.000 rupees in new notes in his ion, the inauguration of that established among men. The role of the men, springing into possession. new divine order. The wilderness of the Divine Father extende. Baula's car, shot him dead, while The case is expected to have conflict may be understood as the We realize that life is a spiritual the merchant's chauffeur was ordeal through which He passed vocation, and that we live most struck on the head." The attack. before crossing the threshold. : ..
fully in fulfilling the will of God
Malabar Hill, the scene of the We may profitably consider the and serving Him within. His was then directed to the woman,
and the men apparently attempt attack made upon the party of ́ ́ ordeal "in the sequence of events Kingdom.
led to disfigure her with knived. Bombay citizens is the most where it is placed in the Gospels There comes a time when we
Four British officers-Lieut beautiful residential quarter of and find in that sequence a key to stand on the threshold of that Col, Vickery, Royal Artillery: Bombay, The chronology of the Gospels the mystery.
Kingdom. We become aware Lieut. M. Stephen, Royal Artil- Far from the native bazaar · offers many difficulties but there "If Thou art the Son of God" that we are the children of Godlery Lieut. F. E. G. Batley, 7th quarter this district has hitherto difficulties about the insinuated the tempter, of that The revelation of our Sonship Gurkhas; and Lieut. Searight, been immune from any such sequence of events in which the relationship Jesus was supremely comes to us as a wondrous surprise
-who were violent act us is described by the Temptation of Our Lord falls. The conscious. "As a child. He knew "God, My Father!" We are led Royal Engineers order, we feel, is of the greatest God as His Father, and at His by the spirit of God" into this going to their club, at once rushed cables. Government House itself occupies the extreme point of the importance. We may miss the baptism God recognised Him as glorious knowledge. But before, to the rescue...
One of them, Lieut. Searight, head land north of Bombay upon meaning and find only mystery if His Son. "If thou art the Son of we cross the threshold we face the we neglect that order.
"If you are a leapt into the car and closed with which the palatial bungalows of We shall God," act divinely, turn" stone to ordeal of testing. not understand the wider signific-bread" and satisfy Thy hunger. "I Son of God?...,How may we the assailant who was furiously Malabar Hill are laid out.
From the hill one may refresh ance of our Lord's conflict, if we thou art the Son of God," who has find confirmation of our heritage? attacking the woman with a knife. view it as an unrelated episode in come to proclaim and inaugurate We may ask overwhelming proofs, The attackers; then opened fire oneself in the cooler airs after the experience of a divinely unique the Kingdom of God, make public divine interposition, to accredit at the officer and hit him three aunset; while away to the south Personality.
proof of thy Sonship, get Thee our Sonship. The proving may times. He was also stabbed in lie the twinkling lights of the Readers of the Gospels will from the solitudes of the desert to come at a time when some direct many places.
city, grouped in a dimming curve recall the sequence. The baptism the crowded City." Cast Thyself action on the part of our Heavenly In spite of his wounds, the round the waterfront of Back of Jesus, the fasting and tempta from the heights of the Temple Father would solve all questions of officer did not let his man go until Bay..
THE PATHAN PARADOX. tion in the wilderness, and the and let expectant worshippers our relationship. We may not be so he fell unconscious.
At the same time the other cutiance upon His ministry and know that Thou art the Son of God. crude as to expect to be given
Every now and then the missions...
Thy Father's special care will miraculous powers; that belongs officers were attempting to come Pathan problem confronts the St. Mark opens his. Gospel with accredit Thee His Son!
to an earlier stage of religious to close quarters with the remain- administrators of Bombay. Tra- an account of the appearance in the
Jesus gave proof of His Sonship belief. The wilderness experience ing assailants, who, however, all desert of John the Baptist. He is by resisting the voice of the of our Lord may help us. The escaped except the man described in the language of the Tempter. He exhibited the true true test of Sonship will be found whorn Lieut. Searight had closed prophet Isaiah as the Lord's spirit of Sonship which consists is not in proving God but in our This man is now under arrest. "Messenger," who prepares in the absolute dependence... upon a sbsolute dependence upoo and Lieut. Searight's gallant con- wilderness a road for the Lord. Father's eare and provision in all trust in His Fatherly love and care, duet is highly praised here. For The herald's message was a call time of need. He exhibited, that There comes in car experience a tunately, his condition is not Yet his adventurous longing to to repentance, and his mission true filial spirit in His resistance to time when we envisage life as a serious, but the woman's life is make money draws him irresisti- Was to announce the coming putting to test of self-sought peril spiritual vocation. We are near endangered. Her face also is bly to the towns. In Bombay of a mightier one, who would that Fatherly care. Absolute imst to the Kingdom, on the threshold. terribly disfigured there are some thousands of these baptise in the Holy Spirit, as he accredits Sonship not the miraculous But, we too, see the kingdoms of The outrage has aroused the gigantic hillmen fair-skinned, had baptised with water.
interposition of the Divine Father. the world and their splendour deepest consternation in Bombay. moustached, and distinguished by St. Matthew further describes the "If Thou be the Son of God Those kingdoms are very real to It is realised that it is no ordinary their baggy trousers Baptist as the herald-preacher of come down from the Cross" cried us. Their offers of place, power, crime with robbery as a motive. Householders in Bombay gen- the Coming Kingdom of God--and the mocking crowds on Golgotha prosperity and pleasure, stírect us. His message" Repent for the Truly this man was the Son of The spirit of the World is potent The "Times of India" describes erally employ a Pathan as a chow- Kingdom of Heaven is now close God, exclaimed the Roman and persuasive. What is to be the crime as the most ghastly and kidar or night watchman. at Hand
Officer who saw Him die on the our attitude to the claims? sinister in memory, and indicates sort of freemasonry among the The cry of the Baptist roused the Cross The centurion was wisers it to be submission or oppost that someone having a powerful Pathans makes it an understood people and from Frusalem and than the maddened multiinde,tion 2 We may think of compro- motive, possibly revenge, la thing among them that they will Judea, multitudes sought baptism If Thy Father's business is the mise, and divided loyalties but we obvionaly at the back of it not burgle dwellings where one of of him, "
| Kingdom; if Thy Vocation is to know that we cannot serve God The paper calls for the strictest their community fe employed. The later Gospels of St. Matthew establish it in the earth; and the world; follow, a spiritual inquiry by the police and also, and St. Luke begin with the Birth the Tempter's voice breaks invocation and live a worldly life, if necessary, intervention by the Stories of Jesus and His home at upon the silence of Our Lord's We must choose between the Government of India to take the Nazareth Thirty years of silence meditation and prayer From the tyranny of the world-spirit, or the strongest measures for the are broken by an incident recorded heights the Adversary, shows to leading of the spirit of God. punishment of those responsible, Pathan immigrants by the police by St. Luke Jesus had been Jesus all the kingdoms of the The wilderness conflict was a however highly placed authorities seem to have little missed by His parents and found world and their splendour Offers Jonely struggle but Our Lord An Exchange message from effect in curbing their dangerous In the Temple A boy of twelvekemton Hip If He will but do Tought the battle for us; it was our Bombay associated the out activities.
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