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Show r were dashed out, and the matted hair rtuck to the walls and rocks. Luke's mode of death is not known positively,' but tradition says ho wan tlaln for Christ. John, the only apostle who died a natural deaih, was not only exiled, but also cast into a caldron of boiling oil. "James, the Great," was beheaded in Jerusalem. "James, the Less," was hurled from the top of the temple to the ground, and there beaten to death with a club. Stephen was stoned to death. Philip was hanged. St. Bartholomew was flayed alive; that means his skin was peeled off from his quivering flesh while he wrs yet . conscious, the bystanders mocking mock-ing him, Andrew preached from the cross while the people scoffed at his dying agonies. Thomas was plerced by a lancev Simon Zelotes, called Peter, was crucified In Persia, head downward, not countlns himself worthy to die as his master. Mattathias was murdered. Paul perished in Rome, being beheaded be-headed by Nero. Our conclusion Is that Christ came to earth at a time when the most civilized, people were not far removed from barbarism and we have, furthermore, further-more, decided that there has been wonderful progress In the morals of the people since that eventful day nearly nineteen hundred years ago. Starting at the Ecce Homo In Jerusalem. Jeru-salem. Christ was led to Calvary. Along the path of sorrow, the doomed loan was made to carry the wooden support upon which he was to die. On tho journey of death, he was given bitter drink when he called for water, and later on his head was lacerated with thorns which were forced down upon his exposed brow In mockery of the crown of a king. Then, at the scene of the murder, Christ was stretched on the i cross and heavy spikes were driven through his arms and legs. After being securely nailed, the man In deepest agony was lifted on high, the cross 'held in place by supports, and there he was left to tiiowly die. Two thieves were put to death at the same time and In the same manner. man-ner. This was. the method of inflicting inflict-ing the death penalty1 at that time. As will be noted, Peter, in after Sears, was executed by being crucified f head down. ' . Paul, after walking the Applan Way to Rome, suffered a death less painful than the other apostles, with the exception ex-ception of two, he being heheaded by that old rascal Nero. The , world was sorely in need of a moral awakening at a time when the kings who ruled delighted In such butcheries. WHEN MEN WERE PUT TO DEATH ON THE CROSS. This Is Good Friday, observed bv all Christian bodies as the day on which Jesus Christ was put to death by Pontius Pilate at tho head of the Jews In Jerusalem. It marks the be-funning be-funning of a tragedy which, ending with the resurrection on Easter Sunday, Sun-day, the third day after tho execution, execu-tion, Is at the foundation of the Christian Chris-tian religions. The story of Christ's death has been told so often that those who havo listened lis-tened to Its recital from the time of babyhood scarcely realize the horror ol It all. unless they stop to contemplate contem-plate a crime of slmllai nature committed com-mitted today. Negroes are burned at ihe stake by wild mobs, and that Is a fearful, repulale act of brutality, but no orderly government now counten-rnces counten-rnces death penalties In any degree approaching in barbarous Inhumanity that of nineteen hundred or more years ago. " We have taken this list of the cpostleg and the manner in which they were put to death from the notes of Rev. Zimmerman of tho Baptist church: Matthew was slain with a sword in Lthiopla. Mark was dragged through the streets of Alexandria until his brains |