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When Christ first entered Jerusalem the multitude sang His praise and received Him as the Son of God. Gradually the storm of accusation caused by the Pharisees, rose against Him, and the people drew back. A few days later they hated Him and cried to the governor for His crucifixion. We despise the fickleness of the miserable rabble, and yet cannot help but feel that we ourselves posses some of its weakness. We cannot be strong in our faith unless we ask ourselves what we really think of Christ, and hold a steadfast faith in His love and forgiveness without...
Professor F. G. Peabody gave an interesting talk before the Christian Association last evening on recent discoveries made at Jerusalem by which the probable locality of the site of the Crucifixion has been ascertained. The old traditions about this site were that it was discovered by the mother of the Emperor Constantine. who learned through a vision. Excavations were made, the story tells, and three crosses were round. The cross of Christ was pointed out by a sick woman, who was healed by touching it. The site as thus determined was within the second wall of the city, that which...
...narrow; he knew God, he knew more of human nature than any one of us, his knowledge of ethics was greater than that of any man before him and he knew more of the life eternal, and all this from his study of Christ. From the crucifixion he learned the great truths of self-denial and self renunciation...
...Perhaps, however, you will say that the question is not settled in this way. Your judgment is the result of the many little judgments that you have previously made. The boy who yielded to the influence of evil companions, disobeying the promptings of conscience, took the road to the crucifixion of Christ...
...possible for us to accept this call. Two roads are open to us; the one leads to a shaming and crucifixion of Christ, and to the casting out of our lives all purity, truth and nobility. The other to a life of peaceful happiness with Jesus Christ...