Word: crucifixion
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...restrict, yes, and even make criminals of labor representatives . . . are not the sound and logical answer. . . . The silencing of leaders of a just cause does not destroy that just cause. . . . Some 1,900 years ago, the leader of the greatest cause this world has ever known was crucified. That crucifixion stands today as the symbol and inspiration of that cause...
According to Hebrews 13:12, Jesus was crucified "without the gate." This agrees with Hebrew custom, which forbade a crucifixion or burial within a city wall. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre stands on a hill traditionally identified as Calvary (where the Bible says that Jesus was crucified, was buried, and rose on the third...
...church lies well inside the present wall of Jerusalem. But this does not bother the traditionalists, who attribute this wall to the Roman Emperor Hadrian, who ruled from 117 to 138 A.D. The wall enclosing the city at the time of the crucifixion, they say, was built by King Herod, and left Calvary outside...
What an ideal time to get across the message of the Crucifixion to young, impressionable men who, on Easter Sunday morning, would leave our ship on such a dangerous mission! That was an Easter parade I shall never forget, and ex-Chaplain Clark will forever be my hero of the Battle of Okinawa. Perhaps the combat photographers would prefer men kneeling at confession, but men in need of spiritual and physical help will always prefer a John Ruskin Clark...
Audiences who have heard Miss Anderson sing Crucifixion have sometimes been too awed to applaud. They have sensed that they are participants in an act of creation-the moment at which religion informs art, and makes it greater than itself...