The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1896-02-29

CXCaVatinG for antiquities nlt!-ulFC'
miles northeast Of Rome, a copper
plate tablet was found containing the
dcath-warrant of the Lord Jesus Christ,
ro3aing N this wise:
In The year Il of The empire of Ii
bcrius Caesar,and on tho 25th Of March,
|, Pontius Plate. governor Of the Prac-
tore, condemn Jesus Of Nazareth to die
between two thieves, Quintius Corne-
Illus to lead him forth to the place Of
execution"
The death-warrant was signed by
several names. First. by Daniel, rabbi
PhariSee; secondly. by Johannes, rabbi;
thirdly, by Raphael; fourthly, by Capet,
a private citizen. This capital punish
ment was executed according to law.
The name of the thief cruCifed on the
right-hand side of Christ was Dsmas;
the name of the thief crucifed on the
left hand side of Christ was Gestus.
Pontlus PLATE describing the tragedy
says the whole world lighted candles
from noon until night. Thirty-three
years or maltreatment. They ascribe
his birth to bastardy and his death to
oXcruciation. A wall of the city, built
about those times and recently eX-
posed by archaeologists, shows a carl
c2ture Of Jesus Christ, evidencing the
contempt in which he was held by
many in his day-that caricature on the
wall representing cross and a DON
KEY nailed to it, and under It the in
scription: This is the Christ whom
the people worship" But rejoice that
that day is gone by. Our Christ is COM
ing out from under the worlds abuse.
The most popular name on earth today
IS the name Of Christ. Where he had
one friend Christ has thousand
friends. The scoffers have become wor-
shippers. OF the twenty most celebrated
intidels in Great Britain in our day,
sixteen have come back to Christ. try
Ing to undo the blatant mischief of their
llves-siXteen out of the twenty. Every
man who writes letter or signs a doc
ument, Willingly or unwittingly, hon
ors Jesus Christ We date everything
as B. c., or A. D.-B. c., before Christ:
A. D., Ammo Domini, in the year of our
Lord. All the ages of history on the
pivot of the upright beam of the Cross
Of the Son of God, y. c., A. D. do not
care what you call him whether Con-
Queror, or King, or Morning Star, or
Sun of Righteousness, or Balm of Gill
cad, or Lebanon Cedar, or Brother. or
Friend, or take the name used in the
verse from which I take my text. and
call him Shiloh, which means his Son.
or the Tranquilator, or the Peacemaker
Shiloh. l only want to tell you that
unto him shall the gathering of the
people be"
In the first place, the people are gath
ering around Christ for pardon. No
sensible man or BEAUTIFULLY ambitious
man is satisfied with his past lift. A
fool may think he is all right. A sens
ible man knows he is not. do not
care who the thoughtful man is. the
review of his lifetime behavior before
God and man gives to him no especial
satisfaction. oh" he saws. "there
have been so many things l have done
ought not to have done, there have
been so many things have said I ought
never to have said, there have been 60
many things l have written I ought
never to have written, there have been
50 many things l have thought ought
never to have thought, must somehow
get things readjusted I must somehow
have the past reconstructed; there are
days and months and years which crv
out against me in horrible vocifera-
ton" All, my brother Christ adjusts
the past by celebrating it. He does
not erase the record of our misdoinp
with a dash Of ink from a registers
pen, but lifting his right hand. crushed.
red at the palm, he puts it against his
bleeding brow, and then against his
pierced side, and with the crimson ac-
emulation Of all those wounds he rubs
out the accusatory chapter. He blots
out our iniquities. Oh! never be anx-
ious about the future; better be anxious
about the past. put it not at the end
of my sermon; l put it at the front:
Mercy and pardon through Shiloh, the
sin-pardoning Christ. Unto him shall
the gathering of the people be-" OH,
says some man, Il have for forty years
been as bad as l could be. and is there
any mercy for me-" Mercy for you.
OH says some one here, II have
grand ancestry, the hottest of fathers
and the tenderest of mothers. and for
my perfidy there is no excuse. Do YOU
think there is any mercy for me?"
Mercy for you. But" says another
man, Il fear I have committed what
they call the objectionable sin, and the
Bible says If a man commit that sin
ne is neither to be forgiven in this
world nor the world to come. Do YOU
think there is any mercy for me?"
The fact that you have any solicitude
about the matter at all proves positively
that you have not committed the ur-
pardonable sin. Mercy for YOU. oh,