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FORM NCState op Count? ofI hereby certify, that on this dny bf—-in the year——personally came before me [here insert the name of the witness)'and (here^insert thenpme of warrantee;) and the said (here insert the name of witness,) being well known to me, was duly sworn by me, and on his' oath declared and said that be .well knew the said (here insert thename qf warrantee,) and that be was the same person described in, and who executed the within Power of Attorney, and his testimony was to me satisfactory evidence of that fact, and the said (here insert the name of warrantee,) then upon acknowledged the said Power to be his uct anddeed.( Officer's Signature.)VSACRED SCENES.THE CRUCIFIXION.ISThough linked mysteriously as spirit with spirit, and subject as we are to the influences of the good, and the bad Angels yet Providence has so ordained, that by our f« llow*being8 we can be influenced or affected, only through our senses. Otherwise—for example—whenever a brother is suffering in mind, or in body, every heart susceptible of sympathy would experience \ somewhat of his distress.And so would it have been in Jerusalem, when the niour drank the cup of agony, in the Garden, flow would the hearts of I many in that city l)avc been wrung with pain, while His .yOul was ‘exceeding sor-(rowful, (\« p. untti death * Hut they were i unconscious of the agony, and of the dis-1 graceful scene whu h immediately follow-;ed; and whin the morrow dawned, they I awoke with heart-* no heavier, on that (account, than when they h y down toi slei p.aNow, ho\re\er when the morning had come, and people btgan to bestir themselves, some who had witnessed, or heard of, what transput d in the night, broke to the ear the wonderful tale. Quickly, from ione to another, the intelligence ran , and• the sun was but few hours high whenJerusalem had In aid of Jesus’s ngonv and arrest. With indignation some listen-'cd to the recital of what lollowed that nrrc.-t. The prlt; ti nded examination by theHigh Priest before the Scribes and Elders,! in the palace of Cmaphas ; ihe accusation j bv false witnesses there ; the spitting into His face, the buffeting He received—how all this must have reddened with ndigna-(otion the cheek of His friends!l'ut Jhcs had His enemies in Jerusalem, and they were many. In them, the story of Ills arrest, and the insult he had received, aroused widely different feelings.A demoniac satisfaction was awakened in their bosom; and many of them hastenedto the hall of Pilate to see the end. They arrived in time to beholp Jesus in tbeCom-, mon Hall.’| There, surrounded by a band of Roman' soldilt; ry, stands the innocent Jesus! They 1 laugh at him; they echo the false accusation! they lay hands roughly upon Him.—-He meekly bears it all. And now, as they ’ strip Him,behold the marks of the scourge inflicted by Pilate’s order! See that swollen nird bleeding flesh wherever the ibon^s1 ha\e struck’ Behold! they put a scarfe j robe upon Hun ! they crown Him with I thorns! they put a ret d—a mock sceptre—, into His hand. ‘Hail! King of the Jews!* i they shout, while the sarcastic smile is on th« ir face.Whi n this disgraceful procedure was en-• ded, they‘led Him away to crucify Him.’ And now—as if they could not make Him suffer enough, they compelled Him,| sore and feeble as He was, to bear His own | cro^s. With Ire mbling step and pallid face i He essays to go to Calvary. But, he tot-ters undir the heavy load. Now, not fromany sympathy, but from necessity, they male one ‘.Simon of Cvrine’ assist in bearding the cross. And thus goes Jesus, led ! bj the murderous band to the place of exe-■cutum! A multitude is following Him.—! And in that multitude there are women, weeping and sobbing aloud, as they behold Him and think of His painful death, now nigh at hand. He hears those sobbingwomen; and, though full of sorrow Himself, He turns and says to them: ‘Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, buttveep for) ourselves and for your children.’Ah! He foresaw Jerusalem besieged; her inhabitants dying of famine, and her women and children being murdered with the sword. In view of this, He bade those women weep. They need not weep for Him; but oh! their hearts were full of present sorrow, and it was m tears and sobs they found relief.Many of those women had followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto Him.’They had walked by His side, and listened delightedly to His gracious words. They had looked upon His love-beaming face, as be was employed in ‘doing good.1And now, when they beheld Him insulted, and led like a criminal to execution; whenthey saw His emaciated, feeble frame, wellnigh sinking to the ground, they could not help weeping and sobbing aloud. But how considerate it was in Jesus to bid them ceaso to weep. His voice assumed themthey were not forgotten; and it sustainedthem in that trying hour.Calvary is reached, and Jesus and Hismurderers ascend it. The top is g They take the cross from His and shoulders, and lay it upon the ground. Now,* behold I they stretch their victim onon it, and prepare to drive the spikes through His hands and feet! Listen to the sound of the hammer, as those spikes are struck! and see how His flesh quiver, as the iron goes through His hands andfeet! The blopd' Is gushing»front'.f wounds now-made; and from bis brow the n crimson stream iasdes, started by thepierc-f those thorns which mke Hiscjjcro^nlitni %ecOfbpuihetl tiifeir purposeiust,dende Him and add to His torture until His, spirit takes its flight.Thoso woman that followed Him are landing ‘afar Off,’ witnessing ihe awful tragedy. They would fain not look upon it* but loVfe prompts their eyes to-linger on theof their dearest Fiiend. ‘I /ee, standing near the cross. ‘Hismother; His mother's sister; ’Haty. wtfe! of Cleopbas; and Mary Magdalen/*-Ob! what agony wrings the bosom of the first, as she beholds her son hanging heije! They all do sorely weep, put she, the most' of all. Jesus looks down upon'Ber, 'and forgets her not, even amid His extremity of suffering. To her He says, flJForaao, behold thy son!' Then passing His eye to John, who was standing by His motherHe says tci him,/Behold thy mother I* In this He was committingfflis mother to the tender care of a.disciple whdmf more^j^K tienlarly He seems to liave loved- ‘And 'from that hour, that disciple took her untV’ his own home/ 1 :It is now the ‘nineteenth hour/ Since the sixth, darkness has been hanging^.over the land. Hark! that despairing cry, \ut-y God!tered amid all this awful gloomy God! why bast (hoa forsaken me I' Attl e sound, the veil of the Temple rends;the earth quakes; the rocks burst asunder; and many dead come out ©4 their graves!Behold! Jesus dies! »The multitude go away. But the four women we have noticed, tarry at the cross with the soldiers who guard the body.Evening comes on. ‘A rich map rojf Arimatlua, named Joseph/ has gotten Pilate’s permission to bury the Saviour'sbody. And now, when the sun has gonedown, and the dews begin to fall, Josephcomes to take away, and bury, the body ofJesu^. The women are still at the cross, and they assist Joseph in clothing the body for the grave. They wipe the blood stains from the pierced hands and feet, and from the body, where that blood had trickled from the wound made by the Roman soldier’s spear. Mcthinks I see them care-fullv adjusting the linen, and tying the napkin about His face. At a former time when Mary Magdnl#ne anointed His feet, Jesus said, ‘She did it for my burial/— Oh! she now remembered those words, and felt tbeir impost; and as she looked at those feet, now pierced and cold, which she had washed with her tears, and wiped with her luxuriant hair, bow could she but drop ‘ears upon them again?J usus is borne to His tomb. Oh ! what a solemn funeral. The tomb is hewn out of rock, and no one has ever yet lain within it. The sacred body is deposited there-The tomb, is closed; a stone is rolled upon, it; and a Roman guard is placed there to prevent any one from stealing the body of the Saviour.We go away; and leave ‘Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting overagainst the sepulchre.'Stlt;neShtintinwoIDChabewohfrlt;baClancodcoc1tVC10COw:C8teSI]1csfsIeye7refFdiTlediBtlwitirplant it between the,, cross on which-' t thieves are nailed,4writhinff‘Jn tortpre Jxaus is crueiJiedJ . Hi* enemies bays *c-FCPV 0 c siDTV FTBIt*
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