They Saw The False Friend, Judas, Betray Him
With A Kiss.
(Alas!
Poor Judas! He loved Jesus, in a way, like the
rest did. It was only his fear of poverty that made him betray his
Master. He was so poor - he wanted the money so badly! We cry out
in horror against Judas. Let us pray rather that we are never
tempted to do a shameful action for a few pieces of silver. The
fear of poverty ever did, and ever will, make scamps of men. We
would like to be faithful, and noble, and just, only really times
are so bad that we cannot afford it! As Becky Sharp says, it is so
easy to be good and noble on five thousand a year, so very hard to
be it on the mere five. If Judas had only been a well-to-do man, he
might have been Saint Judas this day, instead of cursed Judas. He
was not bad. He had only one failing - the failing that makes the
difference between a saint and a villain, all the world over - he was
a coward; he was afraid of being poor.)
"They saw him, pale and silent, dragged now before the priests of
his own countrymen, and now before the Roman Governor, while the
voice of the people - the people who had cried 'Hosanna' to him -
shouted 'Crucify him! crucify him!' They saw him bleeding from the
crown of thorns. They saw him, still followed by the barking mob,
sink beneath the burden of his cross.
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