American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1846-08-13

into confusion, and trampled under loot, mat :,
mighty army rolled turbulently back towards
the Jordan, where Murat was anxiousIy Wal''hg
to mingle in the fight. Dashing WIN MS cav
alry among the disordered ranks, ne saV!Vu =
them down without mercy and rageu i'he " nv" T
amid the prey. This chlValnc ana Io''p" ,L !
warrior declared that the remembrance OF lhe
scenes that once transpired on Mount laoor'
and on these thrice consecrated spots, came u
him in the hottest of the fight and nerVeo MN
with tenfold courage. m,
AS the sun went down over the plans ol dr.
estine, and twilight shed its dim ray over 'he
rent and trodden and dead-covered held, SUI
phurous cloud hung around the summit oi
| Mount Tabor. The smoke OF cattle mao set-
tied there where once the cloud OF glory rested
while grosns and shrieks and crles rent the ar
Nazareth, Jordan and Mount Tabor! Whal sPoIs
for battle fields -.
Roll hack twenty centuries and again view
that hill. The dav is bright and beautiful as
then. and the same rich oriental landscape is
smiling in the same sun. There is Nazareth
with its busy population-the same Nazareth
|, from which Kleber marched his army: ahd
there is Jordan rolling its bright waters along
the same Jordan along whose banks charged
the gltterng squadrons of Murat's caValy'
and there is Mount Tabor,-the same on whicA
: Bonaparte stood with his cannon; ana the sa"ie
: beautiful plain where rolled the smoke OF oaI-
! tie, and struggled thirty thousand men III 'hoi
tai combat. But how different IS lhe scene t,i"V
: ;s passinp here, The son Of God stands on lha'
height and casts his eye over the quiet valley,
! throuoh which Jordan winds its silver current
u Three friends are beside Him. they have walk
. eI together I'D the toilsome way, and no" the
four stand, mere specks on the distant summit
Z But the glorious landscape at their leet IS rol-
J gotten in a sublime scene that is passing before
d Them. The son of Mary-the carpenter OF Ma
J zareth-the wanderer with whom they nave ate
70 and drank, and travelled on foot many weary
!, league, in all the intimacy Of companions ana
10 friends, begins to change before their eyes over
'e his soiled and coarse garments is spreading
h, strange light, steadily frightening INTO htense
H. beauty, till that form glows with such sPlendor
" that i seems to waver to and fro and dissolve
nc in the still radiance The three astonlsheo
'sS friends gaze on it in speechless admiration,
then turn to that familiar face. But 10,
50 greater change has passed over It. Inc man
Us has mt on the God, and that sad and solemn
n0 face that has been seen so often STOPPING over
ra the couch of the dying, and entering the 400
w of the hut of poverty and in the streets OF Ie
~. rusalem, and by the weary wayside-aye o. De
eao dewed with the tears of pity, now burns hh
iea the sun in his midday splendor' MeeHnes
M, has given way to majesty-sadness TO oaHznn
o"' God. The still radiance of heaven Sis 0
ue- that serene brow, and all around that diVr
ny form flows an atmosphere Of strange ana Woi
's' drous beauty. Heaven has poured IT'S brlgn
so ness over that consecrated spot, and on u
ala beams of light that glitter there, Moses and II
ee os as have de?cended and wrapped in the san
-; shining vestments stand beside HIM. WOno
81 follows wonder, for those three glttering iorr
H. are talking with each other, and AMID the thr
a vnrAd
dust ing acce'i.' "io '0u o. 49, "a the death
S of Ve', CaFaS' sne ',oo-,t.,,oL and owe
u" come, feeling also the influence OF that heaVe
" atmosphere, and carried away by suoa
's ,s impulse, SAYS to Jesus, in low and tremolo
e. g. accents at is good to be here; let US ou
~. three tabernacles; one for thee, one tor MOS
'''"' and one for Elias" Confused by the scene a
,vos dazzled by the splendor, he was ignorant WI
10" u be was saving. He knew not the meaning
as y this sudden appearance, but he knew thac II
ven was near and God revealing himself,
~, he felt that some sacred ceremony Woulo
hI;r,e appropriate to the scene, and wMie MS oeS
ton dered gaze was fixed on the three forms oei
aoIa- him, his unconscious lips murmured ioLth
: tho feelings of his heart. No wonder sudden
IT,. came over him that paralyzed his tongue
niai,r crushed him to the EARTH when in the nlds
~, his speech he saw cloud fall Ike falling
'iain from heaven and bright and dazzling, oaia
: co ~ itself over those forms of light. Perhaps
of indjscreet interruption had brought this
- messenger down, and from its bosom the III
r,a1 der and fame of Sinai were to burst; ant
sand fell on his face in silent terror But that CT
ayn he was only canopy for its God, and from
= mon bright foldings came voice saying, n
,usand my peioVGu ooi' !" ""'
der as hear ye Him."
" 80 ~ How long the vision lasted We cannot
uuPo'- T.. Ill tb,t riuht did Jesus with his friends
IN" IN that lonely mountain. Ofthe converse
~, that PASSED between them there we know n
inc: but little sleep, we imagine, visited
ain aid ewes that night, and as they sat on the
=. and summit and watched the stars as they rose
u. NV after another above the horizon, and gaze
a. il,e the moon as she poured her light over the
10. brt and darkened landscape, words were sP
THOSE that seemed orn of heaven; and truths neV
eo he forgotten were uttered in the ears OF lhe
Refo,e dued and reverent disciples.
. stoo6 Oh. how different is heaven and earth!
drons there be stranger contrast than the BATH
-, mas Transformation of Mount Tabor One
NC eno- ders to think Of Bonapare and the Son oil
IS nm the same mountain: one with his wa
, 80 cannon bv his side, and the other with
9 of the and Elias Just from heaven. 1t Is IKE
h a Gin the devil and the angels in the same EIDE
ned his den. , a.,
rha Rnt M after dissertation can destroy tn
columns conservation OF Mount aooi' ~ ;ih ~
llloping the glory OF heaven anu hoiolou W." Il
d fierce drous scene OF the lfahsi'g
nd then the fifth Sacred Mountain OH 'ie ca Wis
umpets, III. 80 nc Mancr
the air. RAPID GROWTH he 'o"4' "
,ly over New Hampshire, twelve years ago was
chaos in forrest, and had not one hundred inhao
thousand 7. hos no,, .,,o IF tho LARGEST mills in t
,veoped !. nus ol. hnis ca,r hundred ant
ncessant hteu o'a'oe' 0oN'i oAs w. :,