Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1904-06-16
THE SUPREME TRAGEDY

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The insured writer's annroach the
rultniuatil,p event ia Tho jifo az Ios,s
with q resolve ana :, doliracv and AT
the same time win a yranhie noyver
which are not common in literature
They had IN. ,,re.tnet story in the
world to toll. and - dlrfic,It story: 70
tell n h.fitfinplv was fbnil task How
well lhev s1,ccesdad NAV hes, he seer
Inv rnntrastin~ moi si,,nla diynjtiad
nud poVerrul nar,,tiv, WIN tho man
no, In Witch Iatar u,,itn,e b,vo AZ
tnmuted to nor.rav 40 ea,,e a,on,e
These few paees in the sacred volume
arc athrnb win move, and yividnnss
Narl,,s version ,yhich is dos; cnated f.,
study in the sunday schools of the
world. is "a marvel of compactness. 1t
comprises in it's eighteen verses only
3i4 words. Yet in this limited space
less h Il correspondent to Il country
newspaper requires To tell of sornc
tfifling neishborhood social event
seventeen distinct Incidents or stages
In this greatest tragedy of tho world
are set forth.
AT THE CROSSROADS OF HIS
TORY
mo ruo 49, -. . -
eva srna+ ~ u',iNioi' 10 - ,;
,,in. 'r1Js,' va ','"y po"MH ~ ~
grim word. .Golentha. the. place OF n
skull" No other spot in the universe
10 c,,assrond 80 tm'S VIII Az
nat .,,a, b.I haa, ina,,a n,a &c.
snot ana hn,r. Iii ~ au"" a,,,1 ~
tnn,S a. nn,, in,,n"a. o 20
it. There WAS set up n cross; then the
badge of deepest shame: now the SYM
boil of human hone and divine love. Is
it any wonder that every year thou
saiias or pilgrims cross iand n Wa
YER 10 araW hlsh un'o this scene OF me
o,N'''' iuiiah ,,"seuN winch mas
.hs''sed Tue Wofios ~caienuars', over
.n,oWn or al,ereu an on us social IN.
sti.u.lo'ls' anu put mo 'he heart Oh
~ Ia'e ne" ana Il ne"
passion:
OPeN-EYED COURAGE.
"They offered him wine. mingled with
myrrh. but he received il not" George
Eliot said that 1.-THE highest calling and
election is to do without opium and
live through all our pain with con-
scious. clear-cyed courage" 1t was
the kindly custom of some tender
hearted Jerusalem women to prepare
drugged wine for the criminals con-
dernned to death by c%rucifxion. that
the agonies of their fate might be eased
by Inconsistencies. Jesus would have
none of 1t. He would meet his end
ciear-eyed n conscious. sensitive to
every tnrop or heated blood, TO every
thrill OF the outraged nerves, to every
strain or inc tortured muscles. to ey-
has naid rnwa'ence 10 me
sublimest exnnnln Of COURAGE 1esms
shrank from nothing. he so,,rht M &c.
cape: he eased no blow. the Gun Of
suffering that was appointed to him
hi drank to the dregs.
THE GAMBLING ExEcurloNERS.
win !. sh,,,Idor NO $500 ~ -
lo,s indifferenca to Int scan ,ne o"ar
which millions have Went of the SOL
diers who actuaIlv aid the deed Tho
horrible details Of tha act of c~,,cievinn
upon which the mind cannot dwell ara
passed over in silence nv the narr,tnr
our own KNOWLEDGE of human nat,lre
and our ~acinati must SUNNY ne
with the i%ndignities which the tender
Christ suffered at the hands of those
rough DICTIONARIES, with whom the cru
cifxion of the condemned was merely
a part of the days work. The one
point that interested them in this cru
cifixion was thai the outlaws gar
ments were to fall to them as their
portion of the booty. %Insensible to the
sisniiicalnce ol tne 9 before
tWhna,' NV. e.vn uhe sun tsiIeu ms race
ny sat :. ene ioo. i .ne Ioush cross
WI ~ i :. ~ ealelessly erected
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