The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-01

open-hearted mannerism would have
won the heart and the love of every
reporter in Jerusalem if they had
been there.
And a reading of the New Tesla
ment makes it mighty clear to the
ordinary mind that Jesus at the time
of His crucifixion was mighty popu-
lar with the masses. The common
people heard Him gladly Only lit
tie while before His crucifixion Jeru-
salem turned out en- masse to hear
Him and they gave him a popular
reception.
Christ RaiIroaded
To His Death.
And the only way that that miser-
able little clique of Jerusalem politi-
clans and high priests could escape
! the wrath of the masses was to rail
| road Jesus Christ through under cover
! of darkness-that's the way They
knew that the proposition to cruelty
/ Jesus would never have stood the ref
erendum test on Gods earth. They
know that Jesus would have beaten
them to FRAGILE if they had ever put
the thing to a vote.
| Just imagine what hard time those
high priests would have had If there
had been syndicate of newspapers
that played upon the front page a
three-column display head line about
/ the ViIliany, of that little crowd of re-
! ligious bgots and crooked politicians
who were intent on numbering Jesus
Christ, who stood for the common
people as no man in history had stood
or no man in history ever will stand.
/ So old Plate called for basin of
water. He walked out before the
crowd and washed his hands nd
said: Il wash my hands of His blood.
/ find no fault in Him"
If he had washed his old black
heart at the same time, he would
have been a clean man.
There has come from us across the
seas book bearing the strange title,
Letters From He'll, the introduc.
ton to which was written by George
Mcdonald. And in that book PLATE
is represented in the lost world bend
ing over a stream of water. q think
/ the author must have got his wires
/ crossed a stream of water in hell
! would have been the limit so far as
| my ideas goes. That is just like the
| average fool novel writer anyway
And PLATE is represented bending
over, dipping his hands in the water
and some one touches him on tbs
!, shoulder and says:
Blood of Christ
On His Hands.
Twill they never be clean?" AnG
I Jesus could make them, and with q
shrek of agony that rang through
a hA will
they never be clean! MOI
Poor PLATE! The blood of Jesus
has been on you for nineteen hundred
years in hell. 1t will be on yol
through an unending eternity Yol
, had your chance that day in front o.
that gang in Jerusalem and you were
willing to let them nail Him on the
cross rather than stand by the side
of Jesus Christ and His truth.
, What shall | do with Jesus, which
: is called Christi"
; He didn't have the courage of hi
/ convictions. He was convinced tina
Jesus was right. Oh, if plate hal
barred his back and said: This maj
| is on the level; you can take me ant
| hair of His head" he would hav
| TAKEN MS SIdHu III I0c SdT1G COlnPdU.
with Joseph of Armathea and othe
famous men. We would have bee
| glad to have named our children afte
him, while tonight we speak his nam
with ignoniny and repulsion. He hal
his chance. He was mserab
white livered coward.
II Now, when old PLATE heard tina
Herod was in town he was glad t
get rid of Jesus, so he showed Hin
over to Herod. Herod thought tina
Jesus was a sort of sleight-of-han
/ performer, legerdemain, ehautauqu
entertainer and had bunch of hig
rollers, and he asked. Jesus to com
up and perform a few miracles jus
to entertain the crowd.
Jesus answered the old fox never
word and they scourged Him and sen
! Him back to old PLATE. Herod ha