Everyman’s Hut

Camp News, Volume 3, Issue 151, 4 December 1942, Page 4

Everyman’s Hut

THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER. “Then one of the' twelve called Judas Iscariot, went into the chief priests, and said unto them, what .will ye . give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.” Matt. 26, v. 14, 15. “Thirty pieces of silver,” for the Lord of Life they gave, . “Thirty pieces of silver” it was only the price of a slave. But that was the priestly value of the Holy One of God, And''they weighed it out in the temple— The price of His precious blood. ' “Thirty pieces of silver,” laid in the traitor’s hand, “Thirty pieces of silver” and the help of an armed band Like a lamb led ’to the slaughter they did bring the- Son of God, At midnight from the garden where His sweat had been like blood. “Thirty pieces of silver”— in the traitor’s brain,— “Thirty pieces of silver,” Oh! it is hellish gain. “I have sinned ’ and betrayed the guiltless!” He did cry with fevered breath, And he flung them down in the -temple And rushed to a madman’s death.

It may. not be for money, and it may not be for gold, But still by tens, of thousands is this precious Saviour sold. Sold.in the marts of science, Sold in the seat of . power, Sold for a godless friendship. And sold in pleasure’s bower; Sold where the awful bargain None but God’s eye can see. Then ponder well the question Shall He be sold by thee? . • Sold! O God, what a moment Stifled is conscience voice, While the recording angel Proclaims the awful choice. Sold! but the price of the Saviour To a living coal shall turn, With the pangs of remorse for ever, Deep in the soul to burn.

When his greed for - money drove Judas to sell his Master, did he realise that he was condemning Him.to death Surely not, — but having taken that step he was:powerless to prevent the consequences of his action. Everyman’s Thought for the Week: “The error of - a moment may become the sorrow of a whole life.”