Words to the Cross

"And vhen the centurian, who stood facing h

breathed his last,

LIFES FOR A LOOK

IN THE DREADFUL DRAMA OF THE

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MANY DIFFERENT TYPES OF PEOPLE.

WERE + = BROKE) iN

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AMT
Fs Sire

SHOUTING GAPING CROWD THAT
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AND SCRIBES THT HL

ee

ee

LIKED SOMETHING EXCITING

WAS ONE THAT SOUNDED A DI? FERENT

al
a

ON CALVEXY TH'RE WAS A

E HAD DONE AND

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WORKER WILD THRONG WAS IMPRESSED

We DO NOT KNOW HIS BU

WM Wik,

-

] THE HISTORY

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THAN AY OTHE MAl

BECAUSE HE COMMANDED ONE

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AT THS DEATH OF THEIR LORD.
3) RELIGION WITHOUT A CROS
HIM,

AND DRAMATIC.

ENT UR TAN
BARS OPENK OPIN

IF THOSE HOUS

HUID RED MB! : HIS DUTIES

- No. h
» Saw that he thus
as a son of God.8"

he said, ‘truly this mn Mark 15:39

CROSS THERE WERE MANY FACES AND VOICES DEPICTING

Se

THERE WERE THE WEEPING WDMEN WHOSE HEARTS AND SPIRITS

WE HAVE DISQUSSED: THE

PS

THERE WERE THE PRIESTS
—_—_—

S: HE CANNOT SAVE HIMSELF." | THERE

fu SAVED OTHERS

OF HIM AND THE BOLDIERS WHO ALWAYS

BITTSR JEERS OF THOSE WHO SPOKE TO THE CROSS THERE

NOTE EB CROW THAT HAD GATHERED

favs

E ALTOCETHER. IN TH

» A MAN WHO DMMORTALIZED

HIMSELF BY PERCELVING WHAT

LONG WITH THE THIEF, HE ALONE IN THE
a

—

WITH THS TRUE NATURS OF JHIS MAN THEY HAD BXSCUrAD.
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ED BY THE POWER OF TH# EVENT.

A

T WHOEVER HE vas COULO
ON CALVARY

BRE SIMILAR TO THOSE

AND STAYS wW

OF A CAPTAIN IN OUR AN

20

WE CAN ASQUME THAT IT WAS HIS ASSIGNMENT TD EXECUTE THIS

PARTICULAR CRUCIFIXION AND THAT HE AND HIS MEN HAD B&EN GBUARUING JESUS FROM THE
—

——

TIME OF WIS ARREST AND TRIAL.

———oe

DREADFUL DEATING ©

—_ $<

HE WOULD HAVE SSEN HIs SOLOTERS GIVE J SUS THE CROWN

TO SATIRIZE HIS ROYALTY. HE WOULD HAVE WITNESSED THE
T ONPILATES ORDE(S. H WOULD) HAVE BEEN IN CHARGE OF THE

THAT ACCOMPANIED J2SUS AS HE CARRIED HIS CROSS ALONG THE RAD

; WOULD HAVE SEY HIM FALL UNDER [fHW WEIGHT AND NOT COMPLALN:
a

HE WOULD HAVE SSN THE FORTITUDE WITH WHICH HIS PRISONER CONTROLLED THE NATURAL

TERROR IN THE FACE OF SO HOR

_—

MOCKERY, AND Soom, 1 INFLINCHINGLY

TS a

RIBLE A DEATH: HE SAW HOW THIS MAN UNDER THE VILEST

WALKED ONWARD.

AS A SOLDIER HE WAS OFIEN BROUGHT INTO CONTACT WITH

CRUCL FIXION WAS A LONG A@NY, ANQ Mi WSiE A LONG TIME

——

DAYS. CRUCIFIXION WAS NOT A VERY COMPLICATED MATT.

—-

GROSSBEAM AND TO THE UPRIGHT BEAM AND ve oe ig ” su

paves OL EK

ROLICAL REFINEMENT OF PAIN. THERE THES VIC TIM ney ROCKS,

UNTILL THS DISLOCATIONS OF TH SHOULDERS PLUS UNBEBARASLE

T OOMALNED TO GIVE TH RELEASES OF DEATH.

SS

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STRUGGLING WITH THS SOLJIZAS WHO

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SOMETHING PSCULIAK THIS TIME.

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Ty DMMTMNTAN WA Never
Ti i CE LUILIL AIS LAW ASV

THE ONE

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. KNEES BEFORE HIM

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SEM! ANYONE BEAR WITH SUCH MAJES

TURLAN'S MEN HAD

me

a’

NAILED JESUS TO THE CROSS,

TCHED HIM DIE.

KING IN AGONY LIKE MADNESS: HE HAD

TX)
Lid

THE MIJDLE CRO

HERCY,

FIGHTING TO ESCAPE,

4 tis AO

Him, BUT T
S HAD DONE NONE OF THESE:

'Y THE RIDI CULS AND

PAIN OF THE CROSS.

HE MADE NO NOISS, NO SCREAMS OF AGON]
— 2

PETITIONS OF MERCY.
eS
BROKEN BY THE SOSBING OF PING

7"
&

THLS WAS ONE WHO FORGAVE THOSE THA
HS HAD SPOKEN, AND WHAT WORDS THEY HAD B

CEINTURI AN. AS HE] TEN ED,
JESUS HAD BEEN MISTAKEN. AND THH)

iD TO GRO

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“InP T 1oOnc ry
C LR bb URVOO ole

STHO!

OF

NOT CQMING TO
HE HAD SO ING TO DO AND AUC!
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THERE WAS NO RESISTANCE, NO

ie ee We

ENVELOPE HIM—BUT AS IF HE WERE GOING OUT

STRUGGLI

atl y BAGH ONG nat

He MUST HAVE WONDERED IF BY J

T

fT ISSUED FROM HIS LIPS, NO

—-ONLY A GREAT SILUICH,

Qryy TH wTa
wii o TOMES

——

IS DEATH.

PISACED THE H“ART OF THE

NY CHANCE THE ENEMIES OF

IKAR THE MAN ON THE

IT WAS AS IF DEATH WES

O MEET DEATH: AS IF

THIS MAN WAS NOT

DYING AS OTHER MEN HAD

he

miriy
holy

AND AT THE VERY S500!

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ROREIYR LNTO THY HANDS I COMMIT MY SPIRI al THLS RO

WITNESSED ALL THAT 3 ) HAPPEMED—THAT
HIS MAN WAS A SON OF GODIN"
THIS WAS A TREMENDOUS THING FOR HIM TO SAY. DISCLPLI]
NOT LIKELY TO BE HEARD PUBLICALLY SAYING THAT A PRISON oy
—_—_— aay.
BY NO LESS A PEiSON TH PIA Ts was("a SO! OF GOD."; THE

CRITICIZE AN ACT OF f

e103 LY THIS WAS A SON OF GOD" HE BLURTZI
HE WAS A MAN THAT HAD FOUND LIPS FOR A LOOK. THE CH
REALIZED THE F SIGNIFICANCE OF WHAT JESUS WAS DOING Aj
———
BUT WE DO KNOW THAT THE CEYTURIAN, WHEN HE LOOKED UPON J
—_—
LOVE WAS EVERYTHING, ON WHO SEEMED TO THDNK THAT ALL THI

) OF HIS DEATH HE SPOKE OUT

_—

UG

IN A LOUD CLEAR VOLCE-#"FAHTER,

3H, HONSST SOLDIG HAD

—

T JESUS HAD DLSD IN QUCH A WAY, Hi SAlD,/ TRULY,

HED ROMAN CENTURIANS WiLRE

{|CAPTAIN DOES NOT USUALLY
—_—_—

tT L}

YULD NOT K aeP

HLAN

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TURIAN QOULD NOT HAVE
| HE DIED ON THE CRO3S.

R3U S SAW ONE FOR WHOM

{TARED IN THE WORLD

iT I

Wi 0 DO GOD'S WILL: AND WHO SURRENDERS) HIMSELF COMPLET
—_
TO CARRY OUT THAT WILL. IP WAS THIS THAT MADE HIM CRY of
UTHUL es rHIS AS A 700i"
AT LEAST AS HE SURVSYHD THE CHRIST ON HES CROSS, HE
a

THAT T JESUS DID NOT BELONG WITH THE ORDEMENE CLIMATE

OF OPINION, BUT i

JT WO. SHIPP. FULLY

AS DEEPLY IMPRESSED AND SHVSED

{AD A

Hef
MYSTERY AND SPLENDOR IN HIS CHARACTER THAT AWED aE «ks ON TO MAKE THIS

.

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1,

5.

ASTONISHING AVOWAL. THE CENTURION MIGHT POSSISLY HAVE Rig

DETAIL ASSIGNED HIM: BUT THROUGH IT HE HAD OBTAINED A COM

DEN TED THE BNPLEASANT

-LETELY NEW VISION OF

LIFE'S MEANING. THE CROSS AND THE CHRIST IT, HAD REVEALED TO
SS
LOVE, THE GLORY OF SACRIFICE, AlD THE DIGNITY OF VICARIOUB SUE

HIM THE HEROISH OF

FoR NG.

[HICH

SVEN

FROM THE LIPS OF A

oo o
pad fi

HOUGHTF

BRAVE ROMAN CENTURION, WORDS OF ADMIRATION A WOR SHT PRU Tu
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OF THE CROSS HAD OPENED THIS MAN'S EYES.
ENAMORED, SELF RIGHTHSOUS. WITH PEOPLE AND THEIR PROBLEMS
“FO HAVE USED THE METMOD OF LOVE. CONSE UMN TLY WE FIND 4]
LOVING AND AP RECIA TING HIM AS A MAN,{ PERM APS M TTHEW'S |

ONE WHO HAD CAL | HIM IN LOVE. WE SES ZACHAHOUS, Sue
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rHS EXPSRIENCK AT THE FOOT

HUNG, THE GUIDE OF ALL

N THE CA

HE APPEARS ALWAYS

bd

M SSEKING OUT MATTHEW,

ENCE UF SUCH

IRST EXP) SRL
&

HACKET AND FOLLOW NG THE

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HAD SHUT

TONI SIMENT AND GEN

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COMPLETELY SEFORS CHRI
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nm omery

AS HE DID NOT, THAT
—_—_—_—_—_—_—_—_—_——

PLAS JESUS, BUT THE LO
—=

UNMOVED WHEN

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HE IS

SEAT AND DIST OF
pennies

ST WHO LOVED HER AS A DAUGHTER OF

if LOVE

MITT
~ TRUCK

THE ARENA OF

6.

TOUCHED HIS HARD

Tm.

SIDE OF JESUS CAI EVEN

i Lal

LEN, INST, TAN 4

|

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MELTING INTO AS*
—_—_—_

IFE. WE SEE A HARD

MTEL
LOVE, BREAKING DOWN
) .

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ONC WOATWARY
URIONSTRITED ON VALVART AAS
ce,

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Mill Al

OUR GOD POINTED STRAT

THIS EARTH: AND WENT

THE CROSS. ONE CANNOT
pees
IN ORDER TO DEMO?

: UNMOVED WHEN HE KNOWS THAT THES

WER TO WIN

mm

THAT GOD WOULD

ACE ANY

(iS CRUCIFIXION WITHOUT BEI

Wir F

U Ss

WITH THE REALIZATION THAT GOD A

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pT ONLY THE LOVE OF THE

ONE CANNOT STAND

LEIGHTY ( TO TH

CAl ree) ; DOWN

RIING LENGT!

ae

hay

bc

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CREATOR ENDURED DEATH I TSELF

Ly MOVED E

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A NEWSPAPER EDITOR

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Patlil

SAYING TO HI

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A DIFFERENCE IT WOULDM

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LOVE BECOME THE GUIDE

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LOV i US| "WE COULD LET

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WELL KNOWN MMH CLINICAL PSYCHIATRIST DR. KARL MSNIINGER ONCE SALI "DIE WE MUST,

ULTIMATE. Y, BUT IN THE MEANTIME WE CAN LIVE--IF WE LOVE."
’

THE CENTURION WAS STRUCK BY THS over JESUS AS HE DIED. WE KNOW THAT LOVE,

We HAVE SESN IT IN OUR LIVES AND IN OUR W Hula » WS CAL LOOK AT TaHE 2,000 YRS. OF

CHRISTIAN TSSTIMONY TO ITS PRESENCE. AND YET FOR MOST OM US, WE FIND IT DIFFICULT

bake

TO EMPLOY IT OURSELVES. EVERYRODY SAGREES THAT THERE ANE] FEW PROBLEMS THAT COULD

———

NOT BE PENETRATED AND SOLVED BY LOVE, HOWEVER, IT IS A PRESCRIPTION OFTEN GIVEN,

pop a ee | ad ry
DIT RR a *
ie! i SS" Jiie

SECOND WAS HIS PELISF THAT TH! THING THAT MATTERED MUST WAS GOD'S WILL, AND HIS

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COULD HAVE TOLD HIM HOW THIS @PIRIT OF DETSRMINATION, THLG STEADFASTNESS OF PURPOSE

——————

EVEN IN THIS CRISIS BECAUSE SUCH HAD BERN HIS WAY OF LIFY. FROM THE VIRY BaGINNING

—_——s

AS HE MEDITATE) ALONE IN THE DESERT ABOUT HIS TASK HE HA] RESISTED EVIRY THMPTAT ION
—————— —— amelie

8.

TO SSEK HES OWN GLORY: AND HAD CONSTANTLY DETIRMINED TO Pt
Be ee —_—_

HIS LIFE,

WHEN HE TAUGHT HIS DISCIPLES HOW TO PRAY, JESUS SAID 1

PETITIONS IN EVERY PRAYER SHOULD BE THAN "GOD'S WILL BE. Di
et —

IN HIS OWN SHRT LIFE TIME EVERY MINUTE OF EVERY HOUR

HIS DAYS WERE SO FULL OF ACTIVITY THAT IT MAKES US TIR#D |
—_—_—_— ——,

NEED WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT AND NEEDED TO BE ATTENDED TO
a

/

IAS UP ON HIS FEET SAYING "LET US GO AT ONCK, ‘ HE SPENT i

EAGERLY SEXX TO MIST THE CLAMOROUS NEEDS PRESEYTED TO HU 4
——————

JP IN HIS OW! STATSEME|IN MY FoOD IS T DO THE WILL OF HIM

ACCOMPLISH HIS WORK )

! TIMMS IT IS DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND THaT GOO HAS A)
QUR LIVES. IT IS HARD TO SkE HOW A HOU EW1LES, STEELWORKE
———=_ a ——

GOULD PERFORM THE WLL OF GOD, SVEN IF HE DOES HAVE ONE F

ns

IT GOD'S WILL FIRST IN

PHAT ONE OF THE CENTRAL
——.

GAME TO HIM FELT THAT HIS OW

wi (SEI J Wi | LINGLY AND

HIS ONLY DESIRE IS SUMMED
————_——

WHO SEN? ME, AND TO

WILL, A PURPOSE FOR

——_— Ls,

DR US.} IF YOU HAVE THOUGH
—,

9.

Ti WESTION THAT I

T BT Riry tT ft
INLY NOT ALO

oa ELLN IGHT UN] oh VERSAL.

THL * WU sre 4, 7) RTA iy 4 2
a
SVERYONE CA “R OR A MISSLONRY, OR KVEN A SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER,
WILL FOR LIV > 1) BO IT.
TH r AED J Ji P iV 10 oie A Hi A ae v1 ris WW is LL Hh 3 FILL! i) Wi TH
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ae

BIT AS Mi F } THE MISSI THs STRGL WOR! A HUTS INTO PRACTICH THE
MINISTi&R. E CAN DO GW'S Wi W PUTTING TO USE WIAT WH BELISVE/WHAT THE CHAIST HAS
i —-

THE CE TURIO! WALL THE THENGS [§ WATCHED THE|CRIST DIZ. LOVE, TwsT,

™W eee
DEVOTION FL..SHED BY HIS , ) IN THEM HE SAW REAL LIVE. IN A MOMMIT OF R.VERATION
— -cumenmaes etarwan val ecw op Goma’ = ee
1D EXOT ns ap) d UT"SURS HIS WAS THE SU YG ye 6 2 fet

fi H COMMUNI WIL SICELSSRATED TWICE, ON MAUNDY

THURS }AT E ck SUNRISE, AND IN T ICES YOUJWILL HER THS SACKED WORDS,
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a

"THES IS MY SY WHT dk some’. OXKXYNKEK THOS 1S NY BLOOO wien Ss bv
FOR MANY." IN THESE MOST OXTANT SSRVICES List US ACI & THINK SSSTOUSLY ABOUT

IR LOVE=-aND Wy IN ALL HUMILITY Ty
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