HE WAS WOUNDED FOR OUR TRANSGRESSIONS.

Hoa Maori, Issue 21, 1 July 1891, Page 7

HE WAS WOUNDED FOR OUR TRANSGRESSIONS.

(to thb children.)

<§2A?i FRIEND of mine had two sons. The eldest boy was always offending, and the father used" felt it; is dufcy to P unis h him. This father ever k oa, k this son who was getting into trouble am . 7 day, one day he had been doing something *ss and the father said you must go to your room a " d prepare for a caning. And to the astonishment ot the father when he went upstairs he found the younger boy instead of the eldest was stripped and he said to him, What makes you have your jacket off? He said, Christ has been beat forme, and I will be beat for my brother; Christ was beaten with many stripes for us. The father thought to himself, I will try and see whether it is genuine, so he said to me, I took my stick and gave him one stroke across the shoulders, and I never had such a stroke myself in my life. Not a muscle upon his back moved and I could hear him say as I struck him, Christ was wounded for my transgressions and bruised for my iniquities, and the chastisement of my peace was laid upon Him and through His stripes I am healed, and he said to his brother don’t weep, you are always being punished, I will be punished for you to night; don’t weep. The father said, I broke the stick, and put my arm round the little boy, and the eldest boy came and took the little boy round his neck and there was a weal over his shoulder; and the father added, my eldest boy never offended me after that and it was through the younger brother suffering for him that he became an obedient child. Christ hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust. It was His love to you caused Him to bear what was due to you for your sins,—listen now to what He tells us in His own Romans 5,8, 9. • “ But God commendeth His love toward us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.” “Much more then, being now justified by His blood we shall be saved from wrath through Him.” Believe in Him. and yours is everlasting life, see too what he says in the 4th John. 23, 24. “ But the hour cometh and now is when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for the Father seeketb such to worship Him. God is a Spirit and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.” May I ask dear reader are you in the position of a true worshipper. If not oh see to it for God’s time is to day. Now is the accepted time. Tomorrow may be too late. A.E.C.

warawara koki he rongoa moku name te ki ona tuakana kanaka e tangi kite patu ia ki a koe i nga wa katoa, mona he patu ahua tenei po mou. Kanaka etangina ka ki mai te matua ka whate kia a te takau ka homai taua riugariuga irunga. tana tamaiti ka puta hoki te tuakana ka awhi tona teina, ko te korero o te matua e nui te pukupuku ote pokihiwi o tona tamaiti engari korerawatu o te tuakana e main kino imuri, Titiro koe irunga te mamae o te teina ka tino rongo ite tuakana. Ko tain te matenga o te Karaiti mo te kara, te tangata tika mo te tangata | he. no tona aroha kia koe ka waka ia to | hara whakarongo koe ki tona kupu.—ltoma j upoko 5, rarangi 8, 9. Heio e whakakitea i nuitia ana e te Atua tona aroha ki a tatou, in tatou hoki e hara ana, ka mate a te I Karaiti mo tatou. Na tern noa ake he whakaoranga mo tatou e ia i te riri, ia tatou | ka tikanei i ona toto. I Name whakapono koe kiaia na kua riro ; kia a koe to orauga touu tauga—Titiro hok i | touu kupu otira mea ke puta mai te wa a te ! nei ano e karakia ai nga kai karakia pono I kite matua irunga ite wairau ite pono : o 1 rapu ana hoki te matua ki te perahe karakie ki a ia. He wairua te Atua a me karakia | nga kai karakia ki a ia irunga ite wairua a ! te pono —Hoani 4, nga opoko 23, 24 nga i raiangi. 1 Irungs te aroha maka e patai kia koe. | Pehea to tu. E kaha koe kite karakia ki !te Atua irunga te wairua mete pono ? Ki te kore ata titiro koe inaianci tenei ra te I taima ate Atua. Tenei te wa manako--1 hanga mai, tenei te ra o te whakaoranga apopo pea kua kore. A.E.C.