The Cross and the Crown

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The following illustration is by Phillips Brooks:
“In all of Christ’s associations the same inevitable mingling of the sad and glad appears. There was a little family at Bethany in which He often made His home, and the last time He left the hospitable door He carried out with him two memories—the memory of how the eyes of Mary had looked up into His face, eager with the desire to understand all His sacred truth, and the memory of how the same eyes had streamed with tears beside her brother’s tomb. The same voices of the populace at Jerusalem which cried, ‘Hosanna!’ cried, ‘Crucify him!’ before the week was done.

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