Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-06-08
r 8 Ancient Mode Of Capital Punish
mant--The Snaps and Con-
struction OF the Cross.
7, was az Ordinary Msds OF Punish
usnt IN OldeB Timer, bat Always
DIsgrReefai and AgoniziEg,
,he sunersnEs Endured by Christ to Saw
the World, and Those He ASKS
Us to Enaure.
"THE ASSASSINATION"

morning;
nd sing The precious blood He split,
NvIansom from the dreadful guilt"
This lo sacrameutsl Gay, and & large
,uU5er Of persons Joined the church,
making the commitment mem oeTsbip
u94. Bot this is only part OF the greEi
.tendsuce that Sunday mornings and
eyepiugs overt Nv the immense audience
room. The R.v. T. Dewitt Ta!msge, D
\ took for his tex The passage: "Who-
.oeyer doth not pear his cross and coma
,lter Me, cannot be Ny disciple. Luke,
NV: y. He then preached the following
sermon:
The CROSS was a gibbet on which crImi.
mails were put to deatn II Was some
times C1sde ID the shape Of the letter r,
sometimes in the shape 6? the letter
sometimes in the shape CT the letter Is
smpla uprigh; sometimes two cross
pieces sgalnst The perpendicular bar, So
ih,. upon the lower cross piece the Grim
Ip.l partially sat. Bug whatever the style
Of gAs cross, 1t wss always disgrsCeiu!
ard always sgonizlng.
When Darius. conquered Babylon, he
M. two hundred esplves to death OF the
GLOSS When Alexander conquered Tyre
he nut two Thousand csptives 10 death on
,Se GLOSS. So it was Just an ordinary
mode Of punishment. Bat in all the for
est OF crosses on the hills and in the val
leYs Of the earth, there is one cross that
,,trscts more attention than any other
Hsnot higher tnsn the others, it is not
msde out Of different wood, there
isDothiDg peculiar 10 tho notch at Which
the Two pieces are liaed, and Sc to the
cene, they Witnessed cTucifiXions every
few weeks, so that see reckless man
walking about the bill and kicking care
lessly aside skull, and wondering WHO
lie william was that had
so PLAT AND MIssHAPRN
ahead; sDd here Is SnOthyr skull, and
here on the hiIlsi ie is another skull. H.
deed, the Bible says il was as place Of
skulls" But about the victim on one of
these crosses ali sges are crying: "Who
lsht. Was He NAV? was He GodT was
Heamsn and G1o2
Through the darkness Of that gloomy
tsy, come close up enough TO the cross
to see who it is. It is Jesus. How cid
be come :nere? Had He come up on the
w u VIZ ulA4 " ASOA III dJOG VIZ hS81T
it'll landscape, or upon brilliant sun
seti NJ He came there i'll and exiaus:-
Cd, People sometimes wonder Why
Christ CJpired 80 quickly On the cross, in
EZ or seven hours, while other Vicnms
1ve been on the cross f)r forty-eighi
hours before life was extinct. will tel
you the reason. He was exhausted when
Be came there. He had been gcourged.
We are horrifipd 81 the cruelties OF the
whipping post, but those cruelties were
mercy ss compared with the ecourging CT
lesi Christ.
saw at Antwerp 6 picture made By
Rl0ens-Ruben's picture Of the scourg-
ing Of Jesns Carist. II WAS the most over
mastering picture ever locked at, or
EVER expect to see. As the iong-frocaed
official opened the door thsr hid the pic
ture, there He Was-Christ With bsck
bent Srd barred. TIE isgellstor stood
with the upper teeth clenched over the
lover LIP, as though TO give violence to
lee blows. There were the swollen
.1Oulders Of Christ, There were the
black sud blue ridges, denied even The re
LIEF OF bleeding. There YVES the nesa
idlering TO the whips as they
we're lifted. There were the marks
where the knots in the whips gouged out
sse flesh. There stood the prosecutor,
With his foot on the calf OF the leg Of the
Savior, bslsrcing himself. o. the fur
!oIs and hellish look on those faces,
ginning vengeance sg,iDst the Son OF
God. The picture seized me, il over
Elelmed NE; it seemed as II 1t would
Kill ne. do not think | could have
lotked st 1t five MINUTES and have lived.
Bl: that, my friends, WAS before Christ
osd started for Calvary. That wSs OILY
he whipping. are you ready for your
Journey 20 TIE cross?
The carpenters have split the timber
INTO tWo pieces. They are heavy aud
Aeysre long pieces, for one of them
must De fastened deep down in the earth
lest
THE STRUGGLING OF THE VICTIM
upset the structure. They put this tim
oe! upoa the shoulder Of Christ very
ssdusllY, FIRST, 20 see whether he cSE
sand II, and after they find He can stand
y, they put the whole weight upon Him
soLSArd now, TO Calvary. The hootiDg
ana the yelling mob follow on. Under
ne weight OF the cross, Christ being
weary ard sick, He stunbles and falls,
snd they Jerk 81 His robe indignant thst
ne should have STUN lied and fallen, snd
Ney cry: "Get up, get upw Christ,
sultlrs one hand on the ground and the
glsf hand on the cross. rises, locking
mo the face OF Mary, His mother, for
sympathy; but they tell her to stand back,
rs no place for woman-"Stand back
@a stop this crying"
p christ moves on with His burden upon
MS shoulders, and there is q boy this:
sEses slong with Him, boy boldiDg 9
aAlet and few psils. l wonder what
y are for. Christ moves on until the
ssufoen is so great He staggers snd falls
nst inio the dust aud faints desd away,
.eo ruffsn puts his foot on Him aDd
slsses him az he would g dead deg,
~ .1ie s5othar ratisn looGs down st
nm wondering whether He has tainted
.nhg, or whether He is only pretending
isint away and With jaer and contempt
,,u9escribsble says: "F.inted, have you?
A,H!ed! get rp, get on"
Now, they have arrived ct the foot of
s Se NIL. on with his clothes. Shall
'ssI iostbsome mob lock upon the IN
,.oed BODY Of Christ? Yes. The COM
%%sloing officers say: "Unfssten the Cir |
~ ~, nAe on the cost, strip Him" The
WI, notk Is done. But bring pacK the coat,
VI aefe are the gamblers tossing up coin
W. me ground, sayIng: "Who shall have
TIe cost?" One ruffi.n says: or have II,
1--we lit is minein he rolls 1t up
40 puts IL under hia arm or he examines