The Cross

"The Cross here means the Crucified One. It is the emblem of all that scorn and ignominy, of all that pain and agony, borne by Him who 'took our sins, and bare them in his own body on the tree.' The benefit procured by the death upon the Cross was the object of the Pilgrim’s striving; the central point to which his hopes converged; the source of all the blessed experiences of his after pilgrimage. There was 'the blood of sprinkling;' there the atoning Lamb; there the substitute for the sinner; and there the sacrifice for sin. Christ and the Cross! Here is the Altar, and the Victim, and the Priest; and in the Crucified One the scheme of redemption is accomplished—'IT IS FINISHED!'"[1]