The Grenada sentinel., 1904-01-30
VOL. XLVIII.
AUDITORS REMOVED TO
TEARS.
Or. s. A. Steel Tells With Remark.
able Affect Story Of The Cru
ciixion.

A congregation sat spellbound al
the Cabanne Southern Methodist
church yesterday morning. Although
the preacher, DR.. S. A. Steel, OF Miss
issippi, spoke for almost an hour, his
hearers were rapt completely in the
story which he told. When he fin.
ished men and women were weeping
in every pew. The tragedy, the path
Us, of Calvary had been presented al
most as the immortal 'blind preach
er" told it when he melted the hearts
Of the countrymen who heard him.
The Way of the Cross''-the simple
story, just as the Scriptures tell it,,
OF Christ's journey to Calvary, his
fainting beneath the cross, his silence
under insult, his words Of comfort to
his mother, his agony, his triumph
ant promise to the thief, This day
thou shalt be with me in Paradise,
and the final cry from the cross, 1T
IS finished, " while earth was clothed
in the blackness OF night and the veil
OF the temple was rent from top to
bottom these dramatic pictures one
after another passed before the men,
tai vision of those in the pews, till
they shuddered and wept at the rev.
elation.
The procession resumes its march,
said he, after picturing the painful
scenes OF the Savior fainting beneath
the cross, ION to the place where
Jesus was to die. You see them as
they station the guards about the
spot. The crowd is pushed back with
ropes. The crosses are placed on the
ground and the three figures stretched
on them. Then a group of women
approach the centurions, as ii to ask
d favor, and it being granted, they
advance to the prisoners. They are
bearing oil mingled with myrth, to
stupefy the terrible suffering which
must come when the figures, having
been nailed to the cross, are lifted up
and a terrible jar occurs when the
crosses are dropped into the openings
were associations OF benevolent wOm-
en- who made it their business to visit
places where men were to be cruciticd.
They administered this deadening
drug in nmercy.
JESUS REFUSED THE DRUG.
''They offered it to the man ON the
hrst@cross and he took it, we may sup
pose. aud escaped the awful agony.
But when they offered it to Jesus, He
tasted it, but the instant he saw it
was he refused it. That refusal meant
that Jesus would face the most
terrible suffering that could be inf1ict-
ed with his mind clear; that he would
face the acutest agony that God call
ed him 10 endure, in uninterrupted
communion with God. He wanted
an unclGuded view OF his Fathers
face at that time. The strength that
comes into the human soul through
) ugh uninterrupted communion with
God brings a greater cordial to the
heart than any artificial relief that
can be impaired by any drux.''
Then the scene was pictured when
Christ was stripped OF his garments
and the seamless garment, (which
perhaps had been presented to him by
some wealthy FRIEND" became the OBJ
iect of the soldiers cupidity. fright
there under the cross, where Jesus is
dying, they are casting lots for his
garments. There, where they can
almost hear the drip, drip on his
blood on the rocks below, they are
kxambling for his raiment.' The ef-
feet of this picture on the congrega-
tion was tremendous. 1t seemed
that those there had never heard the
STORY before. With heaving bosoms
and burning eyes they listened.
GAMBLING DESTROYS MORALS.
"There is no habit that SO complete
lv destroys the moral nerve of the
soul as gambling. The effect of gam
bling is almost as certain to come
from playing games of chance for am
asement as through playing tor mon
ey. A most appalling revelation of
the depravity of man was recently
shown in Chicago when a great num-
her of people applalded the demands
that the theaters should be opened
Immediately, whether they are safe or
not. aud Kissed the declaration that
El.o,, could not IN. Onenef} nnfil IT. vvaS