The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1896-03-26

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IhrMugh n supernatural lens, or
: what i#hight call a prophescope,dy
Jacob soolfs down through the corri-t
doris Ola the centuries until he sees
Christ q e center of Unpopular attrae-
tion and the greatest being ia all the
world, 4 Is everywhere acknowledged
It was n alwaysso. The world tried
hard to Rat Him down and 10 put Film
bacut In 4he year 1900, while eScayat-
ing for antiquities So miles northeast
OF Rome!f copper plate tablet was
found conn Naming the death warrant Of
the Lord lsus Christ, reading in this
y wise
In the Rear IL Of the empire of Tt
berius G@s Er and on the 25th of March,
!, Pontius ilate, governor of the Prae-
tore, condo an Jesus of Nazareth to die
between tuWi thieves, Quintius Corne-
Illus to leadA Him forth to the place of
execution.
Tho DEATH warrant was signed by
several namk First, by Daniel, rabbi
Pharisee; sed ndly, by johannes, rab-
bi; thirdly, q ! Raphael; fourthly,. by
Capet, Q priyiE e citizen. The capital
punishment III S executed according TO
\ law The mime of the thief crucified
on the right. and side of Jesus was
Dismas. Tho name of the thief
crucified on Athe left-hand side
OF Christ as Gestus Pom
4 thus PLATE, de ,ribing the tragedy,
says the whole \ orld lighted candles
from noon untl night. Thirty-five
years of maltrea ment They ascribe
his birth TO bastaA dy and hiE death IT,
" excruciation. A Y all of the }citvr l<lIt
about those timN and recently ex-
posed by arch@old lists. shows o carl
cature of Jesus GU is,, evidencing the
contempt in which He was held by
mapy in His day-that caricature on
the wall representing a cross and a
donkey nailed to it, and under it the
Inscription: This is the Christ whom
the people worship" But Irejoice 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
Hc had one friend Christ has a thou
sand friends. The scofFers have be-
come the worshipers OF the 90 most
celebrated infidels in Great Britain in
our day 10 have come back to Christ
trying to undo the blatant mischief of
their lives-l6 out of the 20 Every
man who writes letter or signs a
document, willingly or unwilling
ly, honors Jesus Christ. We date
everything as, u. 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, =. C., A: d. do not care
what You call Him-whether Conquer
ev, or King, or Morning Star, or Sun
OF Righteousness, or Balm of Gilead,
or Lebanon Cedar, or Brother, or
Friend, or take the name used In the
verse from which ! take my text, and
call Him Shiloh, which means His Son,
or the I'ransquilator, or the Peacema.
ker, Shiloh. ! only want to tell you
that ''unto Him shall the gathering of
the people be, j l.. u. rs. 81" 14Sr* ,
In the first place, the people arc
gathered around Christ for pardon.
No sensible man or healthfully ambi"
tions man is satisfied with his past
life. fool may think lie is all right.
sensible man knows he is not do
not care who the thoughtful man is,
the review Of his lifetime behavior be-
fore God and man gives 10 him noespe-
cial satisfaction. 'Oh, z he says, there
have been so many things have done
ought not to have done, there have
been so many things have said 1
ought never to have said, there have
been so many things have written !
ought never to have written, there have
been SO many things have thought !
ought never TO have thought, must
somehow get things readjusted, must
somehow have the past reconstructed;
there are days and months and years
which cry out against me ia horrible
vociferation." Ahl nav brother, Christ
adjusts the past by obliterating IT, He
does not erase the record OF our misdo-
ing with dash Of ink from registers
pen, but lifting his right hand, crush
ed, red at the palm, He puts ~
against His bleeding brow. and then
against His pierced side, and with the
crimson sccumulatiCn of all those
wounds He rubs out the accusa-
tory chapter He blots out opr I'M
EQUITIES. oh! never be anxious about
the future; better be anxious about the
q past put it not at the end of my SER
mon; put it at the FROM Mercy and
pardon through Shiloh, the sin-pardon-
ing Christ Unto Him shall the gath
eripg of the people be. "oh" says
sone man, ~ have for 40 years been as
tad as could be, and is there any
mercy for me?" Mercy for you. "Ohl''
says some one here, ~ had grand
ancestry. the hottest Of fathers