The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-06-09


cross, was the key, and the only one.
to unlock that paradise.
Nature, as if become sentient on ac-
count of the incompatible tragedy
now enacting, Grapes herself in a veil
of impenetrable blackness.
In that darkness, the seventh word
from the cross is heard. The Son,
having drunk to its dregs the cup the
Father had given Him now, in the
very hour and article of death, conf
IDENTIFY commends His soul to that
Father.
The Teachers Lantern
Pilates ironical inscription has ii
germ oftruth in it. Jesus is king
His dominion is wider than the most
ambitions Caesar ever dreamed of.
What was taunt to the Jews was
a tribute to Jesus. PLATE would fain
acknowledge Him kingly spirit, of
whom the Jews were not worthy. To
this covered eulogy of the procurator
the dying thief added his Thy king
DOM
The cross is always divisive. 1t
once separated a believer from an I'M
believer. 1t does so yet wherever it
is preached. People range themselves
in two classes. The cross is the di-
visor.
A study of Calvary reveals the i'll
tensive forcefulness of the expression,
Cruelty the Son of God afresh. y
Indifference, unbelief, and apostasy
are doing this daily.
1t is incOnceivable that the spirit
of Jesus, just mingled with common
air, was dissipated and lost, as to its
identity, when he breathed it forth
He commended it as an inconceiva bly,
precious thing to the care of a per
sonal God, the Father of Spirits.
The Lord of life helped the dying
penitent at His side to stand the
shock of dissolution by the assurance
of a perpetuation of conscious life be
yond, and an immediate entrance 10
Paradise.
When Jesus entered Paradise it was
in company with an executed crimi
nal. This trophy of His redeeming
love, this evidence of the power of
His cross, He presented to all the in
telligences of the sky.
1t is a common error that the man
who was impressed to bear the cross
was Negro. The presence of Jew
from Africa can easily be accounted
or. Ptolm@us Lagi forcibly coloniz
ed Cyrene, Northern Africa, with a
great number of Jews, who built for
themselves synagogue in Jerusalem
to which thew might resort at feast
| times.
The thoughts of Jesus, even in His
mortal agonies, were upon Others, as
his three first words from the cross
indicate, Father, forgive them
and to the penitent thief, This day
and to His mother, Woman, behold
thy Som
Gambling is that one horrid vice
that could intrude upon even the
crucifixion scene. The rattle of the
dice-box was heard at the foot of the
cross. 1t is the dehumanizing vice.
At Monte Carlo, today, the suicides
revolver often rings at the table
Liveried servants throw sheet over
the corpse and carry it out, and the
| game goes on!
Crucitixion was abolished by Con-
stantine, out of sacred regard for the
| cross as the instrument of the SAVIOR
passion. Thus for fifteen centurie.
| the world has been rid of this cruelest
mode of capital punishment. AnG
the spread of the humanizing gospe
has reduced to the minimum the
pains and indginities of those who
must suffer the extreme penalty.
The twenty-second Psalm. written
as Henstenberg affirms, in the greatest
heat of David's conflict with Saul, is
also strikingly minute in it's portray.
al Of the last agony of Jesus. The
agonized cry, the derision, the pierced
hands and feet, the parting of the
garments, and many other circum.
stances, are here. They are directly
quoted. or at least alluded to, in the
New Testament. The psalm evident
" has broader application than to
the mere historic event of David IS
being surrounded by the soldiers OF
Samuel at Maon. 1t is most Messianic
of all Messianic psalms.
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