"They crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and
put Him to an open shame."
AND behold, within the centremost court of
Heaven, all music had ceased, and the multi-
tudes waited with bowed heads, under a silence
deep with agony, for this was the hour when
the prayers of men ascended to the Throne,
and none dared to lift his eyes to the face of
the Christ God, seated at the right hand of the
Majesty of Glory.
But the Child, with eyes aflame with purest
Love, passed through the throng, and none heard
the sound of his naked feet, nor felt the touch of
his soft raiment as he went.
And the Child kneeled before the Christ God
and gazed up into His face.
And suddenly a great passion of adoring sym-
pathy broke forth upon the Child, for he saw that
the scars upon the forehead of the Christ God
burned with agony, and that the wounds upon