Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-11-10

lion lands upon the sands. At first
the flaming torches blind his eyes and
compel him to blink. Then he looks
around upon the 100000 human eyes
watching him. Then the starving brute
suddenly sees the trembling Christians
in the center of the arena. He sQuats
His claws begin to work convulsively.
He crawls nearer and nearer to his
prey. He makes one leap. There's q
womans scream. Then with savage
ferocity the African monster drags off
the body and begins to MUNICH the
bones.
Again the sport grows tame. The
people are beginning to disperse; the
human torches are going out; darkness
is blotting out everything. With folded
arms l turn to go down the steps, say
ing to myself as L go, us it not awful
that all these Christians should have
been slain for nothing; that all this
blood should have been uselessly split"
But as soliloquized thus young girl
touches my arm. 1 turn and look at
her. She has sweet face. She says,
"You do not know me? mo" I an
swer; II have never seen you before"
"Well," she says, 81 know you. l saw
you when you read my epitaph this
morning in the catacombs. My father
and mother were eaten in this massa-
ere, but they are not dead. Come, let
me show you something. The Coli
scum at this time is deserted" But as
the young girl speaks suddenly
strange light appears. The walls of
the Coliseum begin to enlarge. They
grow so high that they lift themselves
that they are larger than two hemi-
spheres. Then this huge Coliseum be-
gins to fill up. Angels and archangels
and all the redeemed of heaven fill the
galleries. Men and women of all ma
tionalities-white and black and yell
low and brown-crowd into the seats
which fill the arena. The Eskimos Of
the arctic are there; the black men Of
the tropics are there; all peoples are
there. Then a musical leader takes his
place in the center of the arena and
lifts his baton. Suddenly all these
voices swell into one great chorus as
they sing:
Must Jesus bear the cross alone
And all the world go free?
No; there's cross for every one,
And there's a cross for me.
While that great multitude is sing
| ing I turn to my companion and say,
"Who are these and whence came
they? These" she answers, "are the
% 80,
are the members of the living human
race which are bending the knee to the
name of Jesus Christ. That chorus is
the echo of Paurs valedictory in the
| dungeon. This scene was depicted in
the superscription which was written
| over the cross and which, in the Latin
language, told the Jews that Jesus was
to be the temporal as we'll as the spir-
itual king" Oh, my brother and sis
ter, as Christ is some day to rule per-
sonally over the two hemispheres, shall
not you and l, by consecrated lives, try
to hasten this glorious millennial day?
| Shall not our voices be lifted in praise
so that they shall some day find their
full diapason in the song Of Moses and
the Lamb?
| The Message of the Cross.
But the Hebrew superscription ought
to be the most important to us all. II
ought to be the most important be-
cause the Hebrew language has always
been the symbol of Gods protecting
We're Gods favored people. So, when
we read the superscription Of the cross
in the Hebrew tongue, God seems tC
say 10 US as individuals, Il have sent
my only begotten Son into the world
that by his blood you may be pardoned
of your sins and become part of my
new kingdom" We might believe that
Christ is the Son of God. We might
even believe that some day he shall
rule from sea to sea, but that belief
viii not make him our individual King
and Saviour unless we can read our
atonement in his death and his resur
rectiOn, which was by symbol writer
In the Hebrew inscription nailed upor
the top of the cross. Can you not an6
Will you not, by the Hebrew message
believe and accept the statement tha
Jesus Christ died to save you as indi
viduals? He died to save you, oh, man
oh, woman, just as though you were
the only sinner in all the universe.
By the Hebrew superscription nailed
to the cross l proclaim a universal par
don and salvation for all sinners. Jesu.
Christ once said, GAS Moses lifted VI
the serpent in the wilderness even 81
must the Son of Man be lifted up" 81
today lift high the Hebrew superscrip
ton of the cross / cry out in the words
of Revelation. 1.-THE Spirit and the Bride
say come, and let him that heareth sa!
come, and let him that is athirst come
and whatsoever will let him come ant
take of the water of life freely" Sin
ner, today, through the atonement a.
proclaimed in the Hebrew superscrip
ton, will you come and worship thu
Christ of the intellect, the Christ O
coming universal domain, and also tn