[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"reading-0318":3},"MARCH 18\r\nHe answered nothing (Mark 15.3).\r\nThere is no spectacle in all the Bible so sublime as the silent\r\nSavior answering not a word to the men who were maligning Him, and whom He could have laid prostrate at His feet by one look of Divine\r\npower, or one word of fiery rebuke. But He let them say and do\r\ntheir worst and He stood in THE POWER OF STILLNESS-God's holy silent Lamb.\r\nThere is a stillness that lets God work for us, and holds our peace; the stillness that ceases from its contriving and its\r\nselfvindication, and its expedients of wisdom and forethought and lets God provide and answer the cruel blow, in His own unfailing,  faithful love.\r\nHow often we lose God's interposition by taking up our own  cause and striking for our defense. God give to us this silent power, this conquered spirit! And after the heat and strife of\r\nearth are over, men will remember us as we remember the morning  dew, the gentle fight and sunshine, the evening breeze, the Lamb of\r\nCalvary, and the gentle, holy heavenly Dove. A. B. Simpson.\r\nThe daywhen Jesus stood alone And felt the hearts of men like stone,\r\nAnd knew He came but to atone- That day \"He held His peace.\"\r\nThey witnessed falsely to His word, They bound Him with a cruel cord,\r\nAnd mockingly proclaimed Him Lord; \"But Jesus held His peace.\"\r\nThey spat upon Him in the face,\r\nThey dragged Him on from place to place, They heaped upon Him all disgrace;\r\n\"But Jesus held His peace.\"\r\nMy friend, have you forfar much less,\r\nWith rage, which you called righteousness, Resented slights with great distress?\r\nYour Saviour \"held His peace.\" --L. S. P.\r\nI remember once hearing Bishop Whipple, of Minnesota, so well known as \"The Apostle of the Indians,\" utter these beautiful words: \"For\r\nthirty years I have tried to see the face of Christ in those with whom I differed.\" When this spirit actuates us we shall be\r\npreserved at once from a narrow bigotry and an easy-going\r\ntolerance, from passionate vindictiveness and everything that would mar or injure our testimony for Him who came not to destroy men's   fives, but to save them. --W. H. Griffith Thomas.",1783499792050]