The Gavelyte, March 1908

.. ,... d I -······---- ·----------------- :di people honored and worshipped Him as He made His Triumphal Entry in– to the festiiely decorated city. Then He was betrayed, seized, despised, hissed, reviled, tortured, and at last cruelly and most ignominiously sub– jected to the agonies of the Cross. Soon death drew the darkest curtain that this world has ever known. Oh! what a shameful defeat for a man who claimed to be the "Son of God!" But we ask, ,Was that all? Was that faith and trust of those lowly fishermen of Galilee in vain? Was that light which had scarcely started on its glorious and joyful mission to be extinguished fore\·er? Was thi::; world to fall back again into the meshes of unenlightened civilzation, and to remain there in hopele~s despair and impenetrable gloom? \Vas Heav~ en's princely Son to fail in God's mighty plan for the complete salvation of, the earth? No! No! He thrust back the stone from the sepulchre, tri– umphed over the grave, brought victory out of defeat, maintained his prin– ciples of l11ve for humanity and stands to-day, King of the civilized nation-R of this world. Yes, in the onward march of humanity to higher ic:tandards of enlight– enment and knowledge, thousands of noble men have suffered and died that piinciples of truth might li\'e. Has the inspiration of their heroic live-s amounted to nothing? Was the death of Telemachus defeat or proph·ecy? Does 8cotland to-day worship Edward the Conqueror, or Wallace the de– feated? Whose name is whispered in the most sac·red moments of life, Pi– late's or Christ'~? And as the obscuring shades of centuries withdraw, whose are the lives that strong men love to remember, that sculptors and artists wish to portray on stone and canvas? They are the characters who have stood for principles of rig-ht. Only Truth i:5 eternal. Lives, !_inked lio it, can n~ver die. In the SP.rvice of Principle, of Truth, rests the ACHrnV– MP.~ r Oi<' ULTI.v[ATfi~ sncCR3~.