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Identifier: ArenaMagazine-Volume40 (find matches)
Title: Arena magazine - Volume 40
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: B.O. Flower (ed.)
Subjects: Progressivism -- United States liberalism reformism social reform Christian Socialism Gay 90s political commentary Benjamin Orange Flower Progressive era social gospel
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e is over.He is thinking of theignorant mob outsideshouting CrucifyHim, yes, Him, theirKing; of the fleeingdisciples who hadbeen so long timewith Him and yethad never knownHim; of Peter whois denying Him asthe cock crows; ofJudas who has be-trayed Him; of Pilatewho in order to re-main the friend of Caesar at last con-demns the Christ. He seems to be speak-ing now to Pilate—Pilate the puppet, whodreams he is the judge—Thou couldsthave no power at all against me, except itwere given thee from above. Ah, thejudgment scene is not here, not now. Afew hours ago, alone in the garden, thereal judgment had been passed. When Herefused to call for the legion of angels todeliver Him, and stretched out His handonly to the one who brought the cup—He Himself gave Pilate the power withwhich to judge Him now. No mantakes my life from Me,—the words comeringing down the centuries and Tintorethas caught their echo—No man takesmy life from Me, but I lay itdown of Myself. I have power to lay v. v
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«* DECADENT MONUMENT OF DOGE BERTUCCIO VALIER AND FAM-ILY, 1708. IN CHURCH OF STS. JOHN AND PAUL. it down and I have power to take itagain. Christ before Pilate! Pilate beforeChrist! Either phrase might serve as thetitle for this picture, and yet neither isentirely adequate, for in the final analy-sis both figures seem to stand so terriblyalone—each weighing not the others, buthis own soul in the balance—type of thatinevitable, inexorable judgment whichevery man must pass on his own life.We cry out to God for mercy, and Hehands us the scales. By the choice wehave made of light or darkness, of ourhighest or our lowest, we pronounce uponourselves that judgment which alone isfinal. Looking back on those days in the seacity, it seems to me that, if only one have Digitized by Google 536 The Devil: A Powerful Drama of Mental Suggestion. the mind to, one may go to church toas good purpose in voluptuous Venice asin Puritan New England: may hear, ifone have ears to hear, a still, small vo

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