NO. 3 IN THE SHRIES = WORDS TO THE CROSS
THE SOLULERS ALSO MOCKED HIM, COMING UP AND OFFERING

HIM VINHGAR, AND SAYING,

WIF YOU ARE THE KING OF THE JEWS, SAVE YOURSELF." LYKS 23:36-37.

WILLIAM SHAKSSPZARY ONCE SAID fsx THS WORLD'S A aT AND ALL THE MEN AND WOMEN |
BUT THERE IS A DLFFERSNCE DETWEEN THE WORD DRAMA ANDJDRAMATIC., DRM IS A
THE SENSATIONAIJ THE SPECTACULAR. WS LIVE IN A TIME THAT FHRIVES ON THE DRAMATIC, WE
gin LS
ARE CONDITLONEY BY WIDE SCREENED MOVIES Jeijgeam@teEes AND DRAMATIC HSADLINUS./ THE MARK
OF A GOOD MOTION AND EXTRAS @§B EMPLOY IN

ey SSS

OF LIFEJGLITTERING MOVIE STARS APPEAR AT ALL MAJOR CONVENTIONS

——,

PARK A SCORE BOARD THAT LIGHTS UP AND FIRE WORKS DISPLAY

CHRISTIANITY TOO HAS BECOME A VICTIM OF THIS SURGE. MANY
————-

PREY TO THE TEMPTATI TO MAKE THEIR FAITH MORE ATTRACTLV:

_—_—_—

ELABORATE SANCTUARIES, PROVACATIVE LIGHTING, PSYCHOLOGI CAI
anes —

[RICKS

WELL MEANING PERSONS HAVE FALLEN

BY MAKING L? PAs DRAMATIC.

ALL APPEAR HERE AND

Ze

IF ONE OF CHICAGO'S LEAULNG MINISTERS WERE TO ANNOUNCI

—

OW THAT THE WORLD
dese Seabees

ULD PR EA \CH 5S St. NOL NG Jis ; HLS

rr
“a

—

rn
a

7 ANNOUNCE ru TH 7 nr

petal)

ULD PREACH ON THE
pr ieee ashaaaon

gi SAME’

Di Lf

IN OUR SPECTACULAR*MDDED E iVERYTHING IS GEARED TO
—_

a Le Ly

SALVATION. so IT

If IT IS NOT DRAMATIC IT WILL NOT SELL.
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TO JUDGE EVERYTHING BY OUR FEELINGS THAN

RATHIER

Whe

i PRESENT, JIT WOULD O

BY OUR MIND

THAT NEXT SUNDAY H

WAS TOPSY TURVEY, HLS CHURCH

if Pa) FECT WwW ULD HA ROLY

THE GALLERY, INCLUDING
—_—;,

BECOMES pranaric f WE TEND

THUS wk WANT

5 AND WILLS.

a

TO BE DRAMATIC SO THAT PEEL GOOD RA THE

es

OUR RELIGION

SEE SOMETHING THAT IS STARTLING RATHER THAN SOMETHING THAT
ee
LAST SUNDAY DISCUSSED THE FIRST OF THE WORDS TO THs

BUT NO SACRIFICE. ON WHONESDAY EVE

ee

q

ae
la
Pe

came

THAN BE GOOD,/SO THAT WE CAN

—,

AND DEEP.

THINKING WAS PROMPTED BY
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SE —

THINKING. TODAY I WANT TO TURN TO THE SOLUL ES LOI iS WHO WERE THERE ON CLAVARY, WHOSE DUTY

te ® CAR JUT THE ROMAN OLDENS OF EXECUTION. if SOLP1snS, IN WHAT THEY SAID AND
—

DID REPRESENT THOSE OF US, WHO WANT OLR RELIGION TO BE DRAMATIC.

— —_-_ —

THE PRESSICE OF SOLJIURS AT THE CROSS IS EVIDENCE OF ROME'S IRON RULE IN THEIR
ees.
PROVINCES. THEY WER’ TO SEE THAT NO SXTRSME UNAUTHORIZED) BRUTALITY WAS INFLICT@, AND
—
ALSO TO MAKE S NO_ONE ATTEMPTED TO RESCUE THE VICTIMS. §O0METIMES MEN ENR WERE TAA BR)

—

36
20WN BY A GROUP OF DARING FRIENDS AND REVIVED FROM THEIR wo)
——_— ———

WERE NOT JEWS OR CITLZENS OF CONQUERED ISRAEL: THEY WERE J

——<$<<<

THE LOUD*SCREAMING EAGLE OF ROME. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT WAS

———

¥

/
AND WAS CARRIED OUT BY A DETAIL OF THE GOVENER'S SPECIAL GU

a

WHEN THEY HAD FINISHED THEIR MORBID TASK THEY SAT DOW AND

ans peereriirhirtte
BUT INSTEAD OF BEING IMPRESSED BY THE DIVINE LOVE THAT
EEE a

SOLDIERS WERE WHOLLY UNCONCERNED AS THEY WATCHED JESUS DIE

——y

AT JESUS THEY REFERRED TO HDM MAOCKINGLY AS THE KING OF THI
: ne ————

Ail, GODS

——.

(ERE NATIONAL GODS. ROME HAD HER GODS, BABYLON Hi
——__

5
ER.

SLANS HAD GODS OF THEIR OWN TOO: AND THE IMP

*. THAN THE GOD OF ISRAEL wWHd

—

SEEMS) POORER OR WEAK

HID BUS HUMILIATION.

BUT THERE IS SOMETHING STILL MORE SIGNIFICANT IN THEIR

TLONALISTS, LOVERS OF THE SPECTACULAR WHO EXPECTED RELIGION
a

AS THE UNLOOSENING OF FETTERS AND OF TURNING A CROSS INT

+ oo
aie

A

sa

GOD COULD JUSTIFY HIM:

ey]

LF ONLY BY DOING A STUNT, BY BEING D

ny

OF JESUS CHRIST AS HOLLYWOOD MIGHT PORTRAY IT.
; 7

THAT IS WiY

TO OOME DOWN FROM THS CROSS. HEY WANTED AN INCIDENT THAT
BR THAN THAT WHICH WOULD MAKE THHM

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DER/AS THEY SAW nf RATHE

b JWS.

UNDS. THESE SOLDIERS

HE PROUD LEGIONNARRES OF

Hi PREROGATIVE OF THE ROMANS,
—ey

ao. fem TLS US THAT

KEPT WATCH OVER HIM,

SUSFERED THERE BEFORE THEM, THE
SITTING THERE LOOKING
THEY THOUGHT THAT

) GODS, THE MEDES AND THE
—

THAT OF ALL THE NATIONAL
— —e

Lio

COULD NOT SAVE HIMSELF FROM

MOCKING; THESE MEN WERE SENSA*
T) BE DRAMATIC, fis DRAMATIC
THRONE. : IN THEIR #YES A

PAMATIC: THEY WANTED A LIFE

THEY MOCKINGLY ASKED JESUS

JOULD MAK THEM SAY AH IN
SS

SAY "I BELIEVE," WHEN
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he

THEIR MINDS, UNDER THE GRACE OF GOD, KN&wW IT.

AND DRAMATIC. IN EFFECT THEY WERE SAYING/"IF YOU ARE THULY

—_——

DO SOMETHING DRAMATIC LIKE COMING DOWN FROM THAT CROSS.
a .

JUST THAT THEY Wik SO BORED THAT THEY SAT DOWN AND GAMBLED
te rs

——

GARMENTS.

re

BUT FOR THEM IT WAS NOT DRAMATIC ENOUGH, AS WE PICTUI® THI

OUR SUFFERING LORD, UNDAUNTED BY THE EVENT THAT WAS. OCCURIN

aé

Al q

eee

BELNG BI) ACTED

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RELIGION TO BE COLOSSAL

THE CHIAST PROVE 1T-

) WHEN JESUS DID NOT DO

TO SEE WHO WOULD GET HIS.

b GROUP OF MMI, MOCKING

——

OURSELVES TO SE& IF Wi TOO HAVE NOT BEQOME HARDENED TO | AS WE SEARCH FOR THE
_— ——

_O

DRAMATIC.

TO BEGIN WITH THESE PEOPLE EXPECTED RELIGION TO BE DEA

DRA MATIC. [:

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UNSEYSATIONAL, AS UNDRAMATIC AS GOD,
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JAH CIBARLY P
—_——

IN WAYS THAT ARE COMMON PLACE. A HIGHLY R

—$_.

ARMY CALLED NAMAAN CAME TO ELIJAH TO BE CiRED OF THE LEPRO

—— =— _

\PECTH? AND IMPOR

HATIC AND CONSEQUENTLY TH EY

Dl’ CWT HOW GOD WORKS

PANT COMPANJER OF THE SYRIAN

BY HE HAD CONTRACTED. BRING

A COMMANDER HE WAS A DRAMATIC MAN:

WANTED A DRAMATIC CURE.
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Lah
He WAS DISGUSTED AT SUCH A SIMPLE COMMON SUGGESTION AND IG:
—_—_—_—_— —— —_

HM ANT a1) A SET

oDNSA rr L

HIM AND ALL THE ONLOOK R

HAD NOTHING TO

AND SATHED AND WAS CURED.

a ——

ory ND

LESS HE FO

HE ALTH i.

AT ANOTHER POINT IN

Ce

MATIC WAY. Xs .

—

ELI JAH

HIS QUSED

———

REACHED THE MOI

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IT7 HACUTNe WenNe pont
WILD THRASHINGS WERE PERI HAP

NOTHING OF IT. | THE RALW

mw Des
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THE SPECTACULAR, DRAMAT
—_—_—_—_—

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CT O°G)D THAT

ELI JaH'S

WAS TOLD THAT

| JEZEBYL SO HE WENT INTO HIDING IN A CAVE IN

ITH OF THE CAVE A

SUBSIDED 0!

'S POWER,

i

DE THs GLORY

RTH QUAK 2
SS

C: AND SENSATIONAL WERE GONE

De
HE HAD WHAT COULD BE CAL

) THAT WHEN ELIJAB/ TOLD HIM MERI

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COULD BE S=EN AND

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SOME OF HI SERVANTS APPEALED 17

ry ST ON
Tint. Wie
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AMATIC A PROCEDURE, HOW
ee

HS LIFE WAS IN DANGER AT

—__———_____

MOUNT

—

WILD TROPICAL STORM

OCC UR ID

THE VOICE OF GOD TELLING HIM S@METHING:

e_—_—_——

Y TO TURN InN

TO A VISCIQUS

LED A DRAMATIC DISEASE AND HE

X TO GO WASH IN THE JORDAN

RED THY PROPHETS ADVICE.

——

LT AND THAT WOULD IMPRESS

) HIM REMINIING HIM THAT HE

SO NAMAAN WENT TO THE JORDAN

UNSENSATIONAL BUT NEV ER THE*

Yr OF GOD'S QiIeT AND UNURA*

oe eee

THE HANDS OF KING AHABAND

HOREE. JUST AS THS PROPHET

AND HE THOUGHT THAT THE STORM’S .
PUT HE COULD MAKE

™

WAKE, SURELY THIS

Cc

i THE SKY WAS LI

—

AND THE

ee —

THE CONV ULSIONS

—-

STL LLED,

THEN IN

THOUGHT, BUT WHEN THE STORM

HAD TURNED TO CALM AND ALL
—

Tif UNOBTRUSIVE, STILL

All iM] HOT IN

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PiUNDER AND M LT.
OR AGAIN WE SEE A GEYTLE YOUNG WOMENKN CKING ON AN : NN DOOR IN RETHLEHEM AND BEING
—— — ———
TOLD TiZRE WAS NO ROOM: SO SHE ENTERS BA STABLE AND THERE HiR CHILD IS BORW. T WAS
ee
REALLY GOD'S ENTRANCE INTO TH WORLD AND IT WAS MADE WITH SUCH SIMPLICITY./ "HOW
ee ee

SILENTLY, How SILWNTLY, THE WONDROUS GIFT IS GIVEN" / HOW UNDRAMATIC GoD CAN BEt

eS os ee 3 ‘ 3
A IAD oO TEP AT HIS TABLE COUNTING HIS M NY AND A PASSER BY FROM

GALILEE CALS TO HIM "FOLLOW ME" IT was UNDREMATIC, BUT MA (TH Sa, THRIUGH THIS CALL,
a 7

BECAME AN APOSTLE. / NO HSADLINGS, TO STORMY CONV SION, NOTHING DRAM. JUST A COM -R*
momen fewasctreee dl seeaispeeny —_

SO FREQSITLY WS MISS THES CHRIST, /JUST LIKE THE ROMAN SOLDIERS./ BECAUSE WE EXP SOT
-. -~
LIGLON TO BE DRAMATIC... SA TON IS NOT SENSATIONAL, FAITH 1 OT ALL EMOTION. WE
/ = oe ——
CAN SIT IN THE SHADOW OF THE CROSS, AS DID THE SOLDIERS, ANH STILL MISS ITS MEANING.

— a —— _——_____.

TilS BELNG TRUS, IT FOLLOWS THAT UNLIKE THE SOLOE ik, WE OUGHT TO LOOK FOR GOD IN THE
——_— —— le
_—

COMMON PLACE AND THE UNDRAMATIC. THIS IS A DIBFICULT LESSON FOR US TO LEARN, THAT GOD
_—

| :
|

Hi GENSHAL, EV RYDAY INFLUBICES THAT ARE AROUND US/ IN THE PZOPLE WITH WHOM WE
~_——___

HK
ea)
Hi
J

| THE STILL SiALL VOICE THAT IS AUDIBLE ONLY TO US, JIN DAILY SXPERIENCES.

—_—_—_—_—— eas

:

ONE OF THE GREAT FACTS UT JESUS WAS THAT HE HAD TH
‘eens

THE COMMON PLACE AND/ SINCE THBI MEN HAVE HAD THELR EYES. OP!

————— _ ——

FROM FOR I!

—_—_—_

AND ANOTHER TIME HE PAUSED IN THE HAT OF THE DAY

airy
VOR

O}

ad

GIFTS A C

D HE

TANCE IN A

HE STOOD BY THE THEIPLE TREASURY WHILE PFRSONS FROM ALL

OMENTED ON

ee

7 OF
Ain 1

———___

——__,

‘ LONG HIDDEN

——.

4US STOPPED TO BBSERVE

iN WHO WAS A SOCIAL OUTCAST:

pe

UPON SUME WILD LILIgs,

AN ELDERLY WIDOW AND HER SMALL OF

WALKS OF LIFE GAVS THEIR

FSRING, THESE WAE UN DRAMATIC,
; a,

VERYDAY AFFAIRS AND YET IN THEM JESUS CHRIST WAS ABLE TO PDINT OUT TO HIS FOLLOWERS
BEP AND BEAUTIFUL MEANIN [20 ONESS AND VALUE THAT BEFORE HADN'T SEEMED TO BE THERE,
—_— eee! —
SOMET ME, IF YOU HAVE} DONE SO, YOU OUGHT TO MAKE|THIS EXPERIMENT. SIP IN
—_—$——
A GHURCH AND SIT THERE FOR AHALF AN HOUR OR SO, AND MAKE YOURSELF THINK ABOUr NOTHING
— es ii ere

BUT THE CROSS.

WITHOUT A

SERMON, OR HYMNS, OR ORGAN OR RIT

eae

—$—_

ABOUT CALVARY'S CROSS./ I ASSUE YOU, YOU WILL EMERGE FROM JHIS EXPERI ICE WITH RENEAED FAITH
_- ee

IN GOD'S PRESENCE.
__

GOO WALKS INID OUR SOULS

FROM THE BLUE, BUT IN THE

_—_—

_

Ii

TRUE RELIGION IS NOT DRAM:

Wi RSALLZE THAT GOD MAY BE FOUND IN THE COMMOPLACE,

——— ee,

TH SLLENT STEPS: NOT IN A CAMQCLASMIC, DRAMATIC BOLT

QUIET WHEN OUR MIND IS CAI
eee

=

”
Nat

eo

iTIC EITHR. ITIS IMPORTANT FOR U

M AND OF

ai TO HIM.

ONLY THEN GAN_

CK, ONLY THEN CAN WE KNOW THAT WH ARE NOT ALONE.

B TO REALIZE THIS BECAUSE

8.
OUR TIME LITERALLY THRIVES ON THE DRAMATIC, A FLAIR FOR THE DRAMATIC CAN BE SEEN IN
ees ee —_— ‘eitas.

OUR DRESS, IN OUR AUTOMOBIL S, OUR HOUSES AS WELL AS OUR ENTERTAINMENT.

leper ee ers

CLERGYMAN WHO VISITED THE UNITED STATES AT THREES OL’ FERMI INTERVALS, AND HE CAME TO

THREE DIFFSRENT CONCLUSIONS AMMUT WHAT CONSTITUTED THE MAJGR PASSION OF AMERICANS.
—— _ ——_

— ———

La |

WEALTH: AND AFTER THE THI) HE WAS SURE TIAT IT WAS SPEED. | IT SEEMS TD ME THAT THIS
i amen —

MAN JUST ASOUT HIT THS NAIL ON THE HEAD: FOR WHETHSR ON LAND OR SSA: IN THE AIR OR

— i

IN SPACE: OR JUST DRIVING TO THS STO Z, THE TOW SRING FACT AMONG US IS ACCELERATION. IN

—_—_—

THE MIDST OF TIS KIND OF SITUATION, IT TAKES FINE CHARACTER TO REMMMEE THAT TUE REA

MEANING IN LIFE COMES FROM THE QIZT SMALL THINGS,

——_

eee

THEIR OBITS. THE PSALMIST REALLZED TiS WHEN HE noel "THERE IS NO SPESOH NOR ARE

THERE WORDS: THEIL VOICE IS NOT HSARD"/AS THENSWEEP THROUGH] THEIR APPOINTED PATHS.

—_

——" ay

BLOSSOMS INTO BEAUTY AND THERE IS NO CLAP OF THUNDER) NOTHING DRAMATIC. EVERY SORNING

AS OUR EARTH TUHNS EVER SO QUDsTLY, ON ITS AXIS, 4 ARE EXPOSED TO AN UNIMAGINEARLE SOURCE

——_—
Se

NGRGY—-THE B IS NOPHING UT THE RISING OF THE SUN.

AM2ICAN PHILOSPHER ONCE SAID, FTRU § WELIGION IS WHAT YoU

—o,

t VALID IT DOES POINT TO
<
THE IMPO TANCE OF LOOKING FOR MOANING

' aah
pea ms DAS Lo)
————

DO wi

IN THE UNDRAMA

‘
fe

——_

AND SENSATIONALISM, WE SIMPLY HAVE M

aL, IMPGRTANT SIGNIFICANCE
THAT CAI

GIRL MURDERS Hi FATHIR, MOTHER AND Tw
BROTH’: S AND EXPLALNS HER ACTIONS AS AN ATT@PT TO DO SOMET

TING EXCITING. YOUNG PEOPLE
WRECK THEIR SCHOOLS AND SPEED IN AUTOMOAL
Veo

shed

ILSS, YUNG AND OLD] ALEKE DESCRATE
——
SYNAGOGUSS 3S AND ADORN WALLS WITH SWASTIKA'S,/OUR PRIMARY DRIVE SEEMS TO EE TO DO SE-~
THING EXICITING, TO G&T A THRILL/FOR KICKS.
—_—————————

L TRUST THAT WS DO NOT G@ TO THESE EXTREMES BUT IN A SHALL WAY EACH ONE

is OF US
SHARES IN THIS
eerie

ea THE SPLDISR'S REQUEST THAT
———
LELIGION BE DRAMATIC.

THS SOCINTY OF FRIENDS OR_QUA wae THEY ARE BETTE

TER KBOWN ARE A CONSTANT IZ MINUER
TO US OF THE TSUS NATUE OF GOO. THE CRIX

THEIR FAITH I$ IN AN INNER FLAHE AND POWER
WHICH COMSS NOT TH

JAP
———,

TIC AND THE SPECTACULAR, BUT THRO UGI THE QUIET WHEN THE

——

LO,

SPECTCULAR_AND THE BIGNESS OF LIFE REMRE AND THE "STILL

MALL VOICE OF CALM" SPEAKS

)

7

THROUGHOUT HIS MINISTRY JESUS FOUND STRENGTH AND POW

IN THE STILLNESS OF GETHSEMENE HE FOUND THE DETERMINATION
———————

AGONY anol DIS
=

T US NOT SHUT GOD OUT OF OUR LIVES BY BEING DDMUNE
~— itaiesniil
AS WE DRAW _CLOS"R TO EASTER LET US TRY ANNEW TO HEAR GOD I THE UNDRAMATIC/ Lz
— —_ rr +

2 IN

PERILOUS OF RESTFUL QUIET.
———
CARRY OUT HIS MISSION,

YO Tht STILL SMALL VOICE,

t-US

FAIL TO SES ITS SIGNIFICANCE.