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7 whe TD : . v Ta, Again the bary low him, but he drawa & ¥' him not. ste Gia i ae . "18, Jewish feast day came; Jerusalem Was file Jows * and proselytes from every part of Palestine and John stood fn‘) the temple court and said: ~~. pahed fA EMA 19. “Prepare. O Israel, prepare to meet your King.”* “*— 20. So, you have lived in sin; the poor cry ia your streets, ° SS ee no sign » devils can and you regard them not. , REP dct a te Fae Dld nog 21. Your neighbors, who are they? You have defrauded 2 “the Pharoah T;- ne friends and foes alike. wet poe sat : - 9.: “My wo .*? the proof of 22. You worship Allah with voice and lip; your hearts are ‘Qriace 10, And then the tempte sald,, far away, and set on gold. 23. Your priesta have bound upon the people burdens far Jem and from the temple pinnaci ¢ great to bear; they live in ease upon the hard earned Wages . the people will believe you are the o. the poor. - von 11, This you can surely do; ~ Your lawyers, doctom, scribes, are useless cumberers Hie angels charge concerning ¥< of. ground; they are but tumors on the body of the state. they uphold leat you shall fall?™-t"* 25. They toil not, neither do they spin, yet they consume the 12. And Jesus said, “£ will not tempt profita of your marts of trade. Allah.” . La Ara hahe d ea os 26, ‘Your rulers are adulterers, extortioners and thieves, re- 18. And then the tempter sald, “Loo garding not the rights of man. behold its honors and ita famels Be 21. And robbers ply their calling in the sacred hills, the wealth. ote holy temple you have sold to thieves, their dens are in the sa- ya. “Tf you will rive your life | cre vlaces set apart for prayer. . 15. But Jesus said, “Away fro 28. Hear! Hear! You people of Jerusalem! Reform: turn My heart is fixed. I spurn this car from your evil ways or Allah will turn from you, and heathen vition and its pride.” Jape from afar will come, and what is left of all your honor and your 16. For forty days did Jesw w fame will pass in one short hour. His higher self prevailed. He then was ia 29. Prepare, Jerusalem, prepare to meet your King. had found Him and they ministered to Him or 30. He said no more: he left the court and no one saw him 17. Then Jesus left the wilderness, and it the % Ko. of Holy Hreath, he came into the camps of Ic 41. The priesta, the doctors and the ecribes were all in race TMS They sought for Jobn, intent to do him harm. They found him CHAPTER XVI. not. Pilete’s Fined Effort to Release ere ands in Feig lanocence-— vere CHAPTER XV. Fee Execution—-The Seldiers Drive Him to Ks Devi-« Ministry of Jesus—Jesus Goes to the Wilderness for Self. 1. A superstitious people are the Jews Thee) 1 aination, Where He Remains Forty Days. Is Subjected that they have borrowed from the Idol worshippett to Three Temptations—-He Overcomes. Returns jands, that at the end of every year. eee to the Camps of John and Begins Teaching 2 They may heap all thelr ana apem the hege, 1. The harbinger bad paved the way; the Logos had been man set apart to bear their sins owt introduced to men as love made manifest, and he must now be- $. The man Lecomes a ape goat for the gin his divine mintstry. they pellesed that nee they drive bi A 2. And Heacgt forth |pto the wilderness to be alone with | nto foreixn lands they are rete Altab, that He mig nto iis inner heart, and note ie 4 So every sores before ta ae met strength and worthiness tom ould make ot a aer thelr sian awagce s. And with Himself He talked; He sald, “My lower self ain woul mer ord risosers tn baad, whe nad been Wa . the Jewish be SLrOng ; by maay ties Lam bound down to carnal life. who Bea lenders ef a vile, seditioys 4. “Have I the strength to overcome and give my fea - thefts and murders and raping. and art. bh a ho at nek a aT SS) eee a ott . ’