I. Man's life is an inscription on a Cross.
II. That inscription is written irrevocably (1) on the tablet of the eternal past, (2) on the tablet of the immortal memory.
III. That inscription is read by God. This, then, is life: man writing silently, constantly, his life inscription over one of the two crosses which stand in his soul, and the great, silent God reading it all the while. God will make himread it with vain tears hereafter.
E. L. Hull, Sermons,vol. i., p. 106.
References: John 19:22. Homiletic Magazine,vol. xvi., p. 359.