Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-06-04
THE ASSASSINATION.
DR., TALNAGgs DISCOURSE YESTERDAY
MORNING.
. e-.nb;c ssruou on the Death Of ths Savior-ihs
Brooklyn Divine SriDe tho AWml
SCENE Before His Cod
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speei1l 4legram to the Register.
Brooklyn, June 3-The congregation
at the Tabernacle sang this morning:
.Pd sing the precious blood He sPhL
Mylansom from the dreadiul guiN-
This is Sscramental Day, and a large
number OF persons Joined the church
making the commitment membership
four thousand one hundred and ninety
four. But this is only part of the great
attendance that Sunday mornings and
evenings overflow the immense audience
room. The Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage,
DID. took for his text the passage:
whosoevsr doth not bear his cross, and
come after Me, cannot be My disciple"
Luke, ch. IA, v. 81. He preached the
following sermon:
THE CROSS WAS A GIBBET
on which criminals were put to death. 1t
was some times made in the shape of the
letter T, sometimes in the shape of the let
ter X, sometimes in the shape Of the letter
Ia simple upright; sometimes two cross
pieces against the perpendicular bar, 30
that upon the lower cross piece the erlm-
iual partially sat. But whatever the style
of cross, it was always disgraceful and al.
ways agonizing.
| When Darius conquered Babylon, he
put two hundred captives to death on the
cross. When Alexander conquered 1 yre,
he put two thousand captives to death on
the cross. So it was Just an ordinary mode
of punishment. But in all the forest OF
crosses on the hills and in the valleys Of
the earth, there is one cross that attracts
more attention 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 to the
scene. they witnessed crucifixions every
few weeks, so that j see o reckless man
walking about the hill and kicking care
lessly aside a skull, and wondering who
the william was that had 80 fiat and mis-
shapen head; and here is another skull,
and there ON the hillside ia another skull.
Indeed the Bible says it was "a place OF
! shulls." But about the victim on one OF
these crosses all ages are crying: who Is
He? was He man? was He God? was
He man ard God?"
Through the darkness of that gloomy
day, I come close up enough to the cross
to see who il is. 1t is Jesus. How did
he come there? Had He come up on the
ton of the hill to look off upon the beautl'
ful landscape, or upon brilliant sqnsetl
No. He came there i'll aud exhausted.
PEOPLE SOMETIMES WONDER
why Christ expired go quickly on the
! cross, in six or seven hours, while OtheI
, victims have been on the cross for forty
eight hours before lie was extinct. will
, tell 'you the reason. He was exhausted
q when He came there. He had been
! scourged. We are Mortified at the cruel
, ties OF the whipping post, but those cruel
3 ties we're mercy as compared with the
D scourging of Jesus Christ.
! l saw at Antwerp picture made by Ru
bens-Rubens' picture OF shs scourging o.
q Jesus Christ. 1t was the most overmsster
, ing picture ever looked at, or ever expect
to see. As the long g-froCked official opened
q the door that hid the picture, there He
, wss-Christ with back bent and barred.
4 The fiagellator stood with the upper teeth
clenched over the lower lip, as though tt
q give violence to the blows. There were
o the swollen shoulders Of Christ. There
. we're the black aud blue ridges, denied
: even the relief of bleeding. There was the
flesh adhering to the whips as they
were lifted. There were the marks
where the knots in the whips gouged ou'
the flesh. There stood the prosecutor, witt
, his foot on the calf Of the leg Of thu
Saviour, balancing himself. o. che furi
!. ous and hellish look on that face, grin
: ming vengeance against the Son OF God
= The picture seized me, it overwhelmed
me; it seemed as if it would kill me. d.
not think could have looked at it tiv'
minutes aud have lived.
But that, my friends, was before Chris
= had started for Calvary. That was onl!
! the whipping.
: ARE You READY
: for your journey to the Gross?
. The carpenters have split the timbe
G into two pieces. They are heavy and the,
are long pieces, for one of them must b
4 fastened deep down in the earth lest th
= struggling of the victim upset the structure
They put this timber upon the shoulder
/ Christ very gradually, first, to see whethe
= He can stand it, and after they fiud he ca
- stand it, they put the whole weigh
|, upon Him. Forward now to Calvary
- The hooting and the yelling mo
y " follow on. Under the weight of the cros'
II Christ being weary and sick, He stumble
and falls, aud they jerk at His robe indil
- nant that He should have stumbled an
50 fallen, and then cry: ''Get up, get up
r Christ, putting one hand on the groun
:, and the other hand on the cross, rise
~ lookiug into the face Of Mary, His mothe
~ ~ for sympathy but they tell her to stan
=, - back, it is no place for a woman-"Stan
20 20 back and stop this crying"
nj Christ moves on with His burden upC
a, His shoulders, and there is a hoy TIL
passes along with Him, boy holding
ie mallet and q few nails. wonder VIII
in they are for. Christ moves on until Il
of burden Is so great He stageers and fsl
fat into the dust and faints dead ava
and ruffisn puts his foot on Him ar
shakes Him as he would dead dog, whi
another ruffiu looks down at Him wonde
90 ing whether He has tainted away,
whether He is only pretending to fai
away, and with ieer and contempt inde
- crisble says: Tainted, have youH fain
"A ed get up, get on"
eu Now they have arrived atthe foot OF g
ch hill. OF with his clothes. Shall tn
IL. losthsome mob look upon the uurobed boz
sr of Christ? Yes! The commanding office
" say: "Unfasten the girdle, take off Z
le' coat, strip Him" The work is done. b
Dr. bring back the coat, for here are the gar
an blers tossing MP coin on the ground, "a
sr, ing: "Who shall have the cost?' U
he rufisn says: ~ have il, have it; 1t
ut minew He rolls it up and puts 1t und
rs his arm, or he examines IL to see what IA
to ric it is made Of Then they put the Gre
ly upon the ground, and they stretch Chr
80 upon it, and four or five men hold ri
Mt down while they drive the spikes home;
ICE every thump grosn, groan. Ali
he slasi the hour passes on and the time com
70 when they must cruelty Him.
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