Show M OSS I 1 N HISTORY proof that it was mystic emblem long before the time of christianity N the latin vulgate the prophet IN ezekiel says in chapter 84 94 6 that those whom the lord wished to save from the sword he caused the man with the inkhorn to mark on the forehead with the sign thau which Is ia the name of the hebrew letter of the shape of a cross in the english version this to la thus translated the reading being and the lord said unto him go through the midst of the city through the midst of jerusalem and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and cry for all the tiona that be done dome in the midst thereof prescott cott teus tells us that the Span spaniard lard found the cross an object of worship iu in many of the native dative temples of mexico dodor doctor arinton in his myths declares that the indiana regarded the sign of the cross as a mystic emblem evon even before they ever heard beard of christianity ti the hammer of the god thor was of the chape of a cross a fact of which longfellow appears to have been ig 19 borant for at the feast of king olaf he has haa represented the two signs as aa made in opposition to each other the her baring gould has said hel he found no difficulty in believing that the sign of the cross was wag an important emblem in nearly all primeval religions cicero inveighed Inveigh ed often and fiercely against the use of the cross as an instrument tru ment of torture and death lie ile ga crow cross on hill in palestine lne argued that it was shameful to the romans to use a method so utterly barbarous lind had his bis advice been taken what would now hold the place of the cross as the emblem of the christian religion |