The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-03-11

Special TO the COurer-Journal-
Brooklyn, March To-day was
sacramento day in the Brooklyn Tab
ernacle. DIR. Talmage gave The right
hand in fellowship to 134 new mem
bers, making the membership over
300. About thirty persons were
baptized. The opening hymn was:
Ala, and did nv SAVIOR bleed,
And did my Sovereign die
The subject of the sermon was
Tragedy of TRAGEDIES" and the text
Matthew XVII, SO "And si.-
ting down they watched hik. there"
There is nothing said DR.. Taluaoe,
more wild and ungovernabie than d
mob. Some Of the older people in the
audience may remember The excite
ment in New York during the riot
when the people went bowling through
the streets at the time Macready stood
on the stage OF the Astor-place opera
house. Those of you who have read
history may remember the excitement
in Paris during the time OF Louis
XVI, and how the mob rushed up
and down frantIcally.
There is a wild mob going through
the streets OF Jerusalem. As it passes
along it is augmented by the multi
tudes that come out from the lanes
and the alley. TO join the shouts and
the laughter and the lamentations of
the rioters. who become more AMI
more ungovernahe, as they get to-
wards the gates of the city. Fisher
men, vagabonds, rude women, grave
officials, merchant princes, beggars,
miugle in that crowd. They are pass
inc out now through the gates of the
CITY. Thew come TO hill white with
the bleachsd skulls of victims-a hill
that was itself the shape of a skull,
covered with skulls, and called Golgotha
which means the place of a skull.
Three men are to be put to death
twofsr theft one for treason, having
cl aimed to be king Of the Jews. Each
one carries his own cross, but one OF
them is so exhausted from previous
hardships that he faints under the
burden, and they compel Simon OF
Cvre1e, who is supposed 10 be in sym
pathy with the condemned man, To
take hold of one end Of the cross and
help bin carry it. They reach the
hill. The three men are lifted in hor
rid cruci6xion. While the mob are
bowling and mocking and hurting SEQ !
at the chief object of their hate, the
darkness hovers and scowls ami scoops
upon the scene, and the rocks rsud with
terrific clang, and the choking VIM.
and moaning cavern aud dropping sky
and shuddering earthquake declare in
whisper, 10 groan and shrek.
s'THIs Is THE SON OF GOD"
/ propose to speak of the two kinds
of spectators arOuuGthe crOss-anta
gonists and adherents. Among the
antagonists were The Roman soldiers
Now, it is a grand thing 10 serve one,
country. There is not an English
mans heart but thrills at the name
of HaveIock, brave for Christ and
brave for the British Government
When there was a difficult point t,
take the officers would say: Bring
out the saints of old Havelock.
think if Paul had gone into military
service he would have eclipsed the
heroism of the Caesars and the Alex
ander's and the Napolsons of the
world by his bravery aud enthusiasm
There is a time to be at peace, aRC
there is time when Christian ha
to fight. | do not know of grave
or Drawer thing for young man
when it is demanded of him, to turf
his back upon home and quiet anc
luxury, and ia the service of hi
country 90 forth to camp and felc
and carnage and martyrdom. 1t wal
no mean thing to be Roman soldier
it was no idle thing. You know
what revolutions dashed up agains
the walls of that empire. You kno,
to what conquest she devoted herselt
ainging her war eagles against tin
proudest snsigns. Bot the mobiles
army has in it sneaks, and thes
were the men who were detailed iron
that army to attend TO the execution
of Christ. Their dastardly behavie
puts out the CLEAN of their spear
and covers their banners with obloquy
They were towards. They wer
ruffians. They were gamblers. n
noble soldier would treat a fallen 70
as thew treated the captured Christ