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Atonement: Judge Pays A Prisoner's Fine
Mr. Frank Weaver, at one of the tent meetings, told the following
story: Two men, who had been friends and companions in their youth,
met in the police court, the one on the magistrate's bench, the other
in the prisoner's dock. The case was tried, and the prisoner was found
guilty. Would the judge, in consideration of their friendship years
before, forbear to pass judgment? No, he must fulfill his duty;
justice must be done; the law of the land obeyed.
He gave out the sentence--fourteen days hard labor, or a fine of 10
pounds. The condemned man had nothing with which to pay, so the prison
cell was before him. But as soon as he had pronounced the sentence,
the judge rose from the bench, threw aside his magistrate's robes,
and, stepping down to the dock, stood beside the prisoner, paid his
fine for him, and then said: "Now John, you are coming home with me to
supper."
It is just so with the sinner. God cannot overlook sin. Justice
must be done, and sentence pronounced, but Christ Himself pays the
debt, and the sinner is free. --H. F. Sayles
