The Whole World’s Gethsemane
The International Sunday School Lesson fort March 11th is
"JESUS IN GETHSEMANE”—Luke 22.
---By WILLIAM T. ELLIS-———
Into tha Ufa of event individual,
however shallow or mature, cornea an
experience which we call "Gethsem
anei” Ella Wheeler Wilcox beauti
fully gatherede this thought into a
poem:
"In golden youth, when seems the
earth
▲ summer land for singing mirth;
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When souls are clad and heart! are
light.
And not a Shadow lurks In sight.
We do not know it, but there lies
Somewhere, veiled under waning skies,
A garden all must some time see—
Somewhere lies our Gethsemans.
“With Joyous steps we go our ways.
Love lends a halo to our days, v /
Light sorrows sail like clouds afar;
We laugh, and say how strongs we,
are.
We hurry on, and hurrying, go
Close to the' borderland of woe.
That waits for you and waits for me-1—
Forever waits Gethsemane.
"Down shadowy lanes, across strange
streams,
j Bridged over by opr broken dreams,
Behind the misty Caps of years,
Close to the great salt fount of tears,
1 The garden lies; strive .as you may.
You can not miss it in your way.
All paths that have been, or shall ba.
i Pass somewhere through Gethsemane.
| "All those who jpurney, soon or late
Must-pass within that garden’s gate, ■
Must kneel alone in darkness there,
And battle with some fierce despair.
God pity those who can not say,
‘Not mine, but Thine,’ who only pray,
-‘Let this cup pass,’ and cannot see
i The purpose of Gethsnmane.’’
| The Old Garden Itself
I Perhaps a word- about, the actual
spot where, the agony' of Jesus tran
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old—is in the care of the Franciscan
monks. There can be no doubt that if
if is not, the actual scene of the su
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preme Tragedy, It Is within a tew
yards of It. . The-spot Is one of the
most affecting upon earth, and the rev
erent traveler goes* again and again
Into that peaceful, tenderly kept gar
den, to let the dust of the world bo
swept from his spirit by the breezes
of memory which blow through the j
old olive trees. .»
. Gray, as If they had won through '
pain to peace, gnarled and twisted as
If through suffering to Strength, stand
these old olive trees which 'have wit
nessed so much of history. Beneath
these ancient trees the Cowers bloom
In the garden, ,ln sweet, symbolism of
the beauty and Joy that have sprung
up In human life under the shadow of
the suffering, sympathetic Saviour.
The old monk who lovingly tends
the garden—how trivial the differences
between churches seem . when one
comes to Gethsemane!—-v^lth whom I
had congenial conversation, though
each of us could speak but little *pf
the other’s language, gave bits of the
tree from broken limbs, and these ,1
have had made into crosses for friends.
Often memory goes back to that beau
ful Garden, of Renunciation land of
Communion. To visit It is to know a
chastening, sanctifying, uplifting expe
rience.
Under the Treec of Olivet
All fine spirits love the out-of-doors.
In hours of stress and crisis they In
stinctively turn to the woods and the
fields of the open skies. A true nature
lover was Jesus; and he was accustom
ed to resort to these gray groves of
olive trees on the west slope of Olivet,
for prayer and meditation and com
munion with ithe "Father. Even Judas
knew this Spot to be one of his
haunts.
So, in his great hour, Jesus took His
three closest friends and wended his
way down to the sheep-gate at the
northeastern corner of the city, even
as the traveler may do today; and
crossed the brook Kedron at about
the spot where the lepers sat for years;
and penetrated into the seclusion of
the grove, off from the main high
way.
LeaVing behind even His closest
friends, the Master went into the re
cesses of the woods alone. There Is
no room for a companion in the ulti
mate experiences of life. One by one
we face the great varieties. Even our
dearest must stay without the gate of
Gethsemane when we are summoned
to enter. There, alone, beneath the
trees, Jesus underwent the real crisis
of His passion.
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Most of us distrust the blatant per
son’s loud word of self-confidence and
assurance of power. When Jesus in
timated that His disciples would fail
Him that night, I eter impetuously
protested that he would stand fast,
though all men fell away. The very
boastfulness of the utterance pre
pares us for the subsequent events.
The trouble with Peter was that he
was too self-reliant; too sure of Peter,
and not dependent enough on God.. No
Christian may count on himself to
keep faithful; but only on God to keep
faith with him.
The words of constancy were
scarcely. cold on the lips of. the three
most loyal disciples before they were
overcome with sleep. They could not
watch while Jesus prayed. Their love
was not masterful enough to drive
sleep from their eyes, in even their
Leader’s darkest hour. Gethsemane
will not have delivered, its full mes
sage to us, unless it humbles our spir
itual pride.
The Song of the Sweat
Two dramatic extremes are in this
story. It begins with a song, “When
they had sung a hymn they went out
into the Mount of Olives.''. Gan we
Conceive of it? Jesus leaving His last
meal on the old terms with His dis
ciples; bearing in His heart the heavy
consciousness that one of His com
rades was even at that moment on an
errand of treason; knowing • that He
was going forth to. agony beyond
words; to de'sertion-by His*dearest; to
betrayal and denial and to death itself
_with a song on His lips! Mark this,
all ye shallow optimists; here is the
world’s highest mountain peak of cour
age, the singing Saviour on the way
to the Gethsemane and Calvary.
The other extreme of the story is
the sweat of blood, a physical phe
nomenon not unknown to tnedical sci
ence, but marking the very Ultimate
of human intensity of suffering. The
blood from the punctures of the thorn
crown, and from the spear thrusts of
Calvary, were not so significant as this
crimson which the agony of soul
forced from the pores of the Saviour’s
face. We must look • upon this to,
know what salvation costs. ' '
Why the Agony T
What was "the cup” that Jesus
prayed might pass from him? Was it
the arrest, the shame, the buffeting?,
the crucifixion? So we commonly say;
but others have pointed out that this
could hardly be the case, since it was
for this very purpose that Jesus had
come into the world; to miss this
would be to fail In His mission. Surely,
our Lord was not such a onesgs would
purchase immunity from pain at the
cost of honor and duty.
Was it not'rather,- as has often been
suggested, that the agony of Jesus was
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caused by the fear that He might not
physically be able for H.ll task, and
that He might die before His work
wob done? The human frame had al
most reached its limit. Nothing would
please the adversary better than the
untimely death of Jesus. There,seems
a reasonableness in this Idea’, that the
agony was from fear that Christ might
not physically ba able to fulfill His
mission.
What Hakes Cethsemane?
That point is oply Incidental. _ The
great reality Is that Jesus suffered
as-never man suffered, but In the end
triumphantly declared, "Thy will be
done.” Whatever the cause of the
wrenchings of the soul of the Re
deemer, ,they eventuated in a complete
and utter submissionj to the Father's
will. That is what makes a Geth
semarie. A soul struggle which seeks
first of all docility to God and peace
with His purposes, is the only experi
ence that Is worthy of this great
name. Any /nisfortune, however bit
ter, is not a Gethsemape unless it has
this spiritual purpose and result.
The Garden. of Gethsemane is the
garden of renunciation of self and. of
content with G«d. The finest of all
poems touching this experience of
Christ is that one born of Sidney La
nier’s dark hour, when he knew him
self doomed by disease, with his life’s
dreams unfulfilled: '
"Into the woods my Master went,
Clean forspent, forspent.
Into the woods ’nty Master came, s.
Forspent with love and shame.
But the olives they were not blind to
Him, * ■ . . '
The little gray leaves were klnjl to
Him; , --
The thorn-tree had a mind to Him
When Into the woods He came, ,
Out of'the woods my Master went,
i.nd He was well content;
lut of the woods my Master came,
lontent With death and shame.
Vhen Death and Shame would woo
hen Deaip ■-— -
■on^underShe trees the/ drew Hint
Was*on a tree they slew Him—last
rhen out of the woods He oame.~'
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