BEARING THE SINS OF OTHERS.
SPEAKING of the darkness at the crucifixion of Jesus, and the cry wrung from His heart, Alexander Maclaren truly says (Sunday School Times): "For three long hours Jesus hung dying in the dark, and the darkness that wrapped the land was less dense than that which enshrouded His spirit. No eye saw what passed there in that obscurity; but one cry pierced the gloom, 'My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?' the only evidence that we have of the horror of great darkness thru which He struggled then. That is a cry the full meaning of which we can never reach, but which is utterly unintelligible, unless it was wrung from Him by the crushing weight with which the sin of the whole world pressed on Him. The darkness at once symbolized and hid from human eyes the atoning agonies of the great sacrifice. The voice that came from its midst at once rent and interpreted the darkness."