Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: footsteps of f nbe ; JESUS CRUCIFIED. f fee §png in tfee being in an agony he prayed more earnestly : and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground." — Luke xxii. 44. How little can we understand of the sufferings of Jesus ! Into the sacred sanctuary of His sorrows who dares to enter ? Our best attemps to come near to Him leave us standing at a distance, gazing upon Him afar off. The sea of His grief was deep, and we behold Him tossed to and fro as by an unseen hand, but we hear very little of the fury of the storm. A shallow, superficial nature heaves and roars beneath the slightest breeze of affliction ; but the holy nature of Jesus, calm and deep at all times, scarcely utters a moan amid the terrors of the most dreadful storm. Very fewand slight are the intimations of His sorrows, who was most emphatically " a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief." From His own lips we can gather but little to guide us over the dark and dreadful sea where for a time He appeared to drift, forsaken, naked, desolate, and alone. The great ocean of His anguish was too deep to utter its voice. Its great waves heave and roll on beneath the eye in awful majesty and silence. Jesus seldpm spoke while all the waves and billows of God's wrath were passing over Him, and of the meaning of the few words which He did utter we can apprehend but little. His grief was too deep for tears, too great for words. " Behold," said one of old, " and see if there be any sorrows like unto my sorrow." No doubt the sorrows of this good man were great; still we could have understood them, and felt for him, for he was a man, like unto ourselves. But Jesus —the holy, the pure, the unselfish Jesus—how can we appreciate His ? And yet it is right that we should strive to apprehend at... --This text refers to the Paperback edition.