. Six and one abroad. Station I, Station II,and so on, each of the fourteen representing some fiction ofthe procession to the cross, or some real incident such as thetransfer of the cross to the back of Simon the Cyrene, etc. Atthis latter station, which is No. VI, if I remember correctly,there is a depression in the wall, now worn to quite a cavityby the kisses of the faithful, which it is claimed was made byJesus hand as he fell under the weight of the cross. Why should the way from the Roman Governors palace toCalvary be regarded as a Via Dolorosa? Why should Chris-tians weep at the tomb of
. Six and one abroad. Station I, Station II,and so on, each of the fourteen representing some fiction ofthe procession to the cross, or some real incident such as thetransfer of the cross to the back of Simon the Cyrene, etc. Atthis latter station, which is No. VI, if I remember correctly,there is a depression in the wall, now worn to quite a cavityby the kisses of the faithful, which it is claimed was made byJesus hand as he fell under the weight of the cross. Why should the way from the Roman Governors palace toCalvary be regarded as a Via Dolorosa? Why should Chris-tians weep at the tomb of the Savior ? Why should they sorrowupon observing these historic sites or in mental recapitulationof the incidents of the arrest, trial, condemnation, the flagel-lation, mockery, the journey, the jeers, the cross? It musthave been real pleasure for Jesus to suffer the attemptedscheme of his humiliation. It did not humiliate him to spitin his face, nor to press a crown of thorns on his brow. He 126 Six and One Abroad. LEPERS, JERUSALEM. Inside the Walls of Jcnisalon 127 did not mind the beating, and the burden of cross-bearing waseven sweet when he knew it was part of a divine plan. Thedeath on Ihc cress was not hard. John Jacob Astor went tohis death on the Titanic with a smile on his lips in order thathis wife rnd unborn child and other ladies of the ship mightlive, and many a man and many a woman has suffered worsetortures and a more grievous death than Jesus and did it, too,heroically, sublimely, even joyfully. It is nothing to die. Themost hardened desperado can die. Suffering is worse thandeath, and yet it is little to suffer, for many a woman suffersagonies of body and spirit vastly greater than those to whichJesus was subjected. And I have no sympathy with thosepictures that represent my Savior with sad and dejected andhopeless, abject and pitiful expression, for I know he with-stood the taunts and whips with courageous mien and de-meanor and that there was an air of tr
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