The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-07-20
DAILY CROSS BEARING.
Subject of Sunday Sermon by Rev.
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j. B. Boen.
Rev. J. B. Boen, at the Christian
church, Sunday morning, spoke on
the subject of Daily Cross Bearing"
He said in part:
l have never visited a country or
people who believed in a Christ,
without seeing many crosses. Some
were very small, worn on a finger
ring, or chain around the neck, on
the back of bible or seen on the
Rome, the largest building in all the ,
world, is but a great cross of granite !
and marble.
Then what meaneth this cross? !,
| What's it used for and why? Early |
| in the second century the christians |
used it to sign their names, and all
| along down the ages it has been used
| by certain people for this purpose.
People today who can not sign their
own name to an instrument or con-
| tract are required to make their
has written the name to be signed
to the instrument, the persons who
can not sign their own name are re-
| quired to make their cross just over
and between the given and sir name.
| Constantine, in 312 advancing
against Maxentius, reported that he
saw in the heavens great shining
cross with these words "In hoe signo
vinces." After this victory he adopt
ed the cross as his standard. 1t was
HIS mother, Helena, who claimed
she found the crosses of Jesus and
the robbers who were crucified to-
gether.
What does it mean to take up
your cross? We can learn lesson
here from nature. The dewdrop
which sparkles on summer morn
ing exhales its whole being while re-
freshing the leaf on which it hangs.
The rose, unfolding in queenly SPLEEN
dor breathes in floral articulation
"all for you" The apple, golden and
red, glowing amid a sylvan paradise
whispers in the language of Jesus "a
good tree bringeth forth good fruit"
All nature is daily taking up the
cross. The christian sluggard finds it
a hard task. The cross is easily car
ried, but oh, how hard to pull it
along behind you. Taking up the
cross is not taking yourself out of
the world. That is the very opposite
from what Jesus means There is a
sect in the world who absent them
selves from all society and wear
coarse clothes and live on rough
food, thinking this the way to take
up the cross. Some parents after
themselves in doors, live secluded
from the world and if possible from
the family is bearing the cross Nc,
that is selfishness. That is not bear
ing the cross. Bearing the cross is
not affecting the body. Keep your
bodies as pure and as perfect as pos
sible. The cross of Jesus is easy when
borne daily. When borne, mind you
You must bear it. Sunday morning
after having given six days of "a
hours each to labor, pleasure and
of a cross for you to get out of bed
in time to attend Sunday school and
morning service. If you thing this
and act it out, you will find when it
is too late that your life was life
of selfishness. There was nothing
in it only for you and yours Where
are some of your children, you par
ents who are now listening to me?
During Sunday school there were
counted $50 pupils and teachers in
this school. Where are the children
at this hour; one hour later? Some
Of them are knocking tin cans in
the back alleys with those who care
nothing for Sunday school nor for
the welfare Of your children. Keep
your children at church with you.
The devil never Matched a bigger lie
than they will get tired and won't
want to come next Sunday. How
many days do they go to public
school and how many hours per day?
Which is the most important their
education or their spiritual welfare?
Find out what your duty is and do it.
Some of you are carrying the cross of
gold instead the cross of Christ on
cross is anything it is all! Won't you
bear your cross daily; not just few