. The image of the Cross and Lights on the Altar, in the Christian Church, and in heathen temples before the Christian era, especially in the British Isles, together with the history of the triangle, the dove, floral decorations, the easter egg, and other heathen symbols. y Christians of Egypt adoptedthis Tau in lieu of the ci oss, which was afterwards substi-tuted for it. That the sign of Tammuz was a cross is vestal virgins of Pagan Rome wore it suspended fromtheir necklaces, as the nuns do now, and Wilkinsonproves that it was already in use in Egypt as early as the fifteenth
. The image of the Cross and Lights on the Altar, in the Christian Church, and in heathen temples before the Christian era, especially in the British Isles, together with the history of the triangle, the dove, floral decorations, the easter egg, and other heathen symbols. y Christians of Egypt adoptedthis Tau in lieu of the ci oss, which was afterwards substi-tuted for it. That the sign of Tammuz was a cross is vestal virgins of Pagan Rome wore it suspended fromtheir necklaces, as the nuns do now, and Wilkinsonproves that it was already in use in Egypt as early as the fifteenth century before the Ghiis-tian era, and both men and womenfrequently had a small cross sus-pended to a necklace or to the collarof their dress ; but I repeat it, thereis not the slightest proof whateverthat our blessed Saviour was exe-cuted upon a cross of the same suffered for our sakes the deathof a common malefactor; and crimi-nals, as we have seen, were oftencrucfiied upon straight posts or pales,with the hands nailed above the our Saviour suffered in thatway is not a new supposition; forin a work by the learned antiquarian, Joost Lips(), published in Lou vain in 1605, He is repre-sented as crucified in that manner. It was engraved in. The Image of the Cross. 25 The Roch newspaper last year. Crosses as instruments ofpunishment were formerly used in marvellous numbers,so tliat it can hardly be supposed they would be |)arti-cular about the form of them. Varus crucified 2,000 Jews,Hadrian 500 a day, and Titus so many, that there wasno room for the crosses and no crosses for the bodies. At the period of the Revolution in England, a RoyalCommission, appointed to inquire into the rites and cere-monies of the Church, numbering among its memberseight or ten bishops, strongly recommended that the useof the cross in baptism, as tending to superstition, shouldbe laid aside. When the Prayer Book of the Protestant EpiscopalChurch in the United States of America
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