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CHRIST IN GETH8EMANE \ By WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN (Bible Text—Luke 22:30-48, 54) One of the most fascinating and impressive pictures of Jesus is Hoff man’s painting, “Christ in Gethsem ane,” to which event in Luke’s ac count of Christ’s life we now come. Kneeling by the side of a stone, the Messiah lifts His heart in prayer to the Father as He draws near to the great sacrifice for which He came and the approach of which He had revealed to His disciples. Next to the scene upon the cross, nothing grips the Christian so strong ly as the agony through which the Saviour passed in the Garden of Gethsemane. We see here more clearly than anywhere else, except in the hour of His crucifixion, the commingling of the human and the divine. His flesh shrinks, as all flesh does, from pain-, and the sense of physical suffering is deepened by the seeming failure of His mission. “He came unto his own and his own received him not.” Even His disciples, who caught occasional glimpses of the glory side of His personality, could hardly com prehend the magnitude of His sal vation, while others to whom He of fered the unspeakable honor of com radeship hissed and ieered. At every moment of His ministry upon earth His words were watched that they might be turned into accu sations against Him; and now He passes through these hours of sorrow on the way to His seat at the right hand of God. As was His custom, He went unto the Mount of Olives and His disciples followed Him. He enjoined them to pray that they enter not into tempta tion, and then He went apart from them and poured forth His heart in petition to God. Here we have the highest testi monial ever given to prayer. The second part of the Trinity—He who was Himself one with God—gave solemn endorsement to communion with the Heavenly Father through prayer. _To His disciples He gave one rea son for prayer, while for another reason He Himself engaged in prayer. "Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me; neverthe less not my will, but thine, be done.” Who, considering the experience of that sorrowful night, will say that there is no need for prayer? If those whom Christ Himself chose—who enjoyed daily compan ionship with Him and were inspired by His presence and His words—if they needed to pray that they enter not into temptation, who of us can be so foolhardy as to think himself fully fortified against the tempter? It is just such over-confidence that invites Satan to try his power on man. When one is in the attitude of prayer he makes his strongest re sistence to the wiles of the evil one. Christ taught His followers to be ware of the beginnings of evil. 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