The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-04-03
STORY OF THE CROSS TOLD TO
CROWDS BELOW YESLER way

clan tuned his instrument. and
through the open doors OF a saloon
came strains OF "on tho shores Of
italy" A cash register iingled.
Near by an electric piano crashed
a d!scord. and more men gathered.
Most OF us men," declared the
clergyman, must bear this cross.
some one way. some another. Just
as He bore Il up tho hill 10 Calvary.
Just as tho sun reflected shining
rays from the cross that radiant
afternoon. so has the light OF God
been reflected down through the
ages.
Symbol Of unseifishnsss
Not long ago stood at the bed
side OF a dying youth. lie told me
he had always thought the cross
myth. conjured up by parents
merely TO brighten children. But
before he died he realized It's mean.
ing and went beyond rejoicing.
The cross is symbol OF His
|, great unselflshncss. The selfish
sins OF men today are the reason
why we sometimes have not enough
to eat and wear. In finding God.
we'll find the greatest happiness
the happiness OF unselflshness. I'm
purity. oppression OF the poor. they
all are due TO the sins OF fellow
men. The cross We bear to you
tells us that God is our own Father
and that He taught unselflshness."
A gray-haired. wrinkled veteran
I joined the throng. The faint OF
booze was on his breath His eyes
were bleary. He touched a strang.
er's shoulder and inquired:
Who Is that man? Who Is he7
I | like to hear him"
! Took Him TO Calvary
! And the minister went on.
| They took Him TO Herod. a nice
king, who lived with his brothers
wife, and Herod had Him scourged.
They spat in His face and crowned
His head with thorns. And when
PLATE told them that he saw no
fault in Him. they cried for Bar.
rabas, most wicked in that country.
released him and took the other
Man 20 Calvary.
They took Him up the hill to
Calvary, and women stood along the
way. holding their babes and weep
ing. They loved Him because He
loved their children, and no man
who loves little children is a wick
ed man.
He told them not TO weep. He
had but to die. He said. while they
must live on after Him"
Police stop to Listen
Police. keeping a traffic way
clear, dotted the throng. They. too
listened and were gentler In hand.
ling the crowd. The clergyman
went on:
They hammered nails through
His poor hands-kind, tender hands
and through His feet--feet tina,
had ever busted themselves run
ming TO minister TO others. But
they couldn't nail the Spirit OF God
fast to the Cross.
His death will be meaningless
10 you and me. unless we get part
OF what they could not cruelty. DO
you men know another friend
who'd die for you? You say your
mother. Yes! Your mother would
But. man, say Jesus Christ has
died for you"
All Join In Prayer
a short prayer followed. Then a
song. and then the recrors lips be
gan:
Our Father, which art in heay.
en-"
And the great throng gathered
there to sec the cross took up the
words. and hatless men forgot the
music and the ribsldry OF that
street.
Few eyes we're dry.
The gray-haired veteran was the
first to speak.
For 20 years" he said, II have
lived below the line, but never In
that time have ! felt the way | feel
now. That man reminds me OF my
father. He was that kind OF man
Why has this minister never come
before?"
Ministers In every other part of
the city held services in their
churches TO commemorate the cruel.
fixion-