Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1888-06-10
THE ASSASSINATION.
SAcRAMENTAl DAY SERVICES IN
THE BROOKLYN TABERNACLE.

scription of the scourginG aud Cruci-
nxion Of Our saviour-The Terrible
Crown Of Thorns.
BROOKLYN, June 3.-The congregation
at the Tabernacle sang this morning:
I'd sing the precious blood he split,
Ny ransom from the dreadful guilt
This IS Sacramento day, and large
number of persons joined the church,
making the communicant membership
4,l94. But this is only part Of the great
attendance that Sunday mornings and
evenings overflow the immense audience
room. The Rev. T. De Witt Talmage,
D. D.. took for his text the passage;
s'Whosoever doth not bear his cross, and
come after me, cannot he my disciple. !"
Luke xiv, 81. He preached the fol-
lowing sermon:
The cross was gibbet on which Grim.
inals were put to death. II was some
times made in the shape Of the letter I,
sometimes in the shape Of the letter y,
sometimes in the shape of tile letter Ia
simple upright; sometimes two cross
pieces against the perpendicular bar, 50
that upon the lower cross piece the Grim
inal partially sat. But whatever the
style of the cross, it was always disgrace
full and always agonizing.
When Darius conquered Babylon he
put 200 caplives To- death on the cross.
When Alexander conquered Tyre he put
1000 capiiyes to death on the cross. So
il was Just an ordinary mode Of punish.
ment. But IN all the forest Of crosses on
the hills and in the valleys Of the earth
there is one cross that attracts more at
tention than any other. 1t is not higher
than the others: it is not made out Of
different wood; there is nothing peculiar
in the notch at which the two pieces are
Joined; and. as 10 the scene, they wit.
messed crucifxions every few weeks, so
that | see a reckless man walking about
the hill and kicking carelessly aside a
skull, and wondering who the villain was
that had so fiat and misshapen head;
and here is another skull, and there on
the hillside is another skull. Indeed, the
Bible SAYS il was "a place of skulls" !"
But about the victim on one Of these
crosses all ages are crying: ''Who is hei
! Was he mani Was he God: Was he
man and G0d'
Through the darkness Of that gloomy
day, | come close up enough TO that
cross to see what it is. 1t is Jesus. How
did he come there! Had he come up OF
the top OF the hill 10 look off upon tn,
| l.aaufif,,I Iunlcrapa nv ,tpnr a Irilliap
sunset? No. He came there i'll and eX
hausted. People sometimes wonder WHY
Christ expired so quickly on the cross, il
six or seven hours, while other victim:
have been on the cross for forty-eigh'
hours before life was extinct ] will tel
you the reason. Hewas exhausted when
he came there. He had been scourged.
We are Mortified at the cruelties Of the
whipping post, but those cruelties were
mercyas compared with the scourging Of
Jesus Christ.
saw at Antwerp picture made by
Rubcns-Rubcns' picture of the scorSg,
ing Of Jesus Christ. 1t was the mosr
overnasterinC picture l ever looked al
or ever expect 10 re. AS the long
frocked official opened the door that hid
the picture, there he was-Christ with
back hent and barred. The tlGgellator
stood with the upper teeth clinched over
the lower lip, as though TO give violence
TO the blows. There We're the swollen
shoulders Of Christ. There were the
black and blue ridges, denied even the
relief Of bleeding. There was the flesl
adhering to The whips as they were lifted
There were the marks where the knot.
in the whips gouged out the flesh. There
stood the prosecutor with his foot or
the calf Of the leg of the Saviour, bal
ancing himself. o! the furious and
helish look on those faces, grinning ven
geance against the Son Of God. Ths
picture seized met overwhelmed me
il seemed as if it would kill me. / dC
not think could have looked at it five
minutes and have lived.
Put that, my friends. was befor,
Christ had started for Calvary. Tha
was only tie whipping. Are you ready
for your journey 10 the crossl
The carpenters have split the timber
into two pieces. They are heavy anC
they are long pieces, for one Of then
must be fastened deep down in the eartl
2 lost the struggling of the victim upse
the structure. They put this timbe
upon the shoulder of Christ very gradu
ally: first, to see whether he can stand il
and after they find he can stand il, the,
put the whole weight upon him. Forwar,
now. to Calvary. The hooting and III
vclliug mob follow on. Under the weigh
of the cross, Christ being weary and sick
hc snmllcs and falls, and they Jerk a
Ma robe indignant that he should hay
stumbled and fallen, and they cry; "Ge
up. get up" Christ, putting one han
on the ground and the other on the eros,
rises looking into the face Of Mary, hi
mother, for sympathy, but they tell he
20 stand hack, 1t is no plack for n woma
-"Stand back and stop this crying"
Christ moves on with his burden upo
his shoulders. and there is boy ths
passes along with him, a boy holding
: mallet ard few nails. wonder wha
they are f1r. Christ moves on until a,
burden is so great he staggers and cal
fiat into the dust aud faints dead away
and ru0lan puts his foot on him an
shakes him ~ he would dead dog, Will
another miilan looks down AZ him wor
dering whether he has tainted away, G
whether I've IA only pretending to fair
away, and with jecr and contempt ind,
scrilallr SAYS; "FRiutcd. have YOU
> faintel eE mp, get onl'
Now they have arrived at the foot {
tho hin on with his clothes. Sim