American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1846-08-22
from the New York Observer.l
AGREED MOUNTAINS-MOUNT OF OLIVES

@gACRED MOUNTAINS-MOUNT OF OLIVES.
BY THE REV. t. HEADLEY.
The Mount of Olives stands just without Je-
@Jusalem, over the little stream OF kedron. Its
zAeight and magnitude would not entitle it to
: The name of the mountain as we use tho word;
: but being called such in the Bible it belongs
4mong the "Sacred Mountains" In moral
: grandeur it towers above all the preceding
! mountains that rise along the horizon of his
! sory.
4 1t is difficult to recall any scene wildly that
8aas been 80 often described and so long familiar
&c us as that which transpred on the Mount of
sOlives. The mind is prepared for every event
it, and hence cannot be taken by surprise or
: sleld in suspense. But there are moments when
+he heart torgets all that it has ever heard, and
Ieems tor the first time TO witness that night of
zsSufferng. The Indifference which long famii-
PARITY has produced disappears before rising emo
attion, and that lonely hIll-top-that midnight
ztprayer-that piercing agony, with its bloody
Testimonial, and the rude shock of Roman sol
zfdiers, all, all, swim before the swimming eye,
ziwith the freshness Of first sight, till the heart
Hsthrills and throbs at the wondrous spectacle.
But as morally grand and moving as that
zgscene was, it caused but little talk in Jerusa.
lem. The streets of the proud city were filled
with careless promenaders-> parties of pleasure
i lwere assembled dissipation and revelry were
Won every side; and the quiet of the staid citi-
Mems home was not interrupted by the tragedy
Mount Olvet was to witness. Every thing
moved on in its accustomed way, when, in an
Iobscure street in the upper chamber of an infe.
irior dwelling, group of coarse-elad men sal
ldown to table spread with the plainest fare
THE rattling Of carriages and the hum of the
Smighty city were unheeded by them, and you
sceuld see by their countenances that some ca
lamity was impending over their heads. Few
words were spoken, and those few were uttered
/ in subdued and saddened tone that always be.
| speak grefat the heart. At the head of the table
4 sat one whose noble countenance proclaimed
him chief there. He had won the love of those
4 supplemented men, and now they sat grouped
around him, expecting some sad news, but oh
they were unprepared for the startling declara
ton that fell from those lips: "This night on,
| of yon shall betray me-" ''Ls il I?' as ii ~
II ran from lip to lip in breathless CONSERVATION
| At length all eyes centred on Judas, and he
| rose and went away.
will not speak of the conversation that fol
LEVIED, but amid words that thrilled every hear
were heard such language as, "Ihis is my bloot
4 shed for many" and as the bread crumbled be
meath his fingers, "ThiS is my body;"-strangt
language, and awakening strange sensations II
| the bewldered listeners; and a mournful sad
ness rested on every face, as through the sen
chamber rung those tones of tenderness.
Gradually the great city sunk to rest, the
4 noise of wheels grew less and less, and only
now and then solitary carriage went rumbling
| by. 1t was midnight, and from that solitary
| chamber arose the voice of singing. The vic
/ tim at the altar-tlie sufferer by the wheel
struck up hymn at the moment of sacrifice
4 Mac haea g.
circumstances.
Through the darkened streets those lively,
forms are slowly passing towards the walls
of the city, cared for and noticed only b,
the police, whom the betrayer has put upon
the track Kedron is passed, and they reach
the garden of Gethsemane. est you here,
says Jesus, 'whie go and pray yonder," anc
taking. with him only Peter and James anc
Il John, he assembled the slope of Olivet. AS the,
| paused on The solitary summit, the human
heart threw OIL the restraint it had put on III
feelings, and burst forth in tones of indescriba
BILE mournfulness, "Juy soul is exceeding sorroao
tisl euen unto death; stag here and acafch ,oitl
me-" Every prop seemed falling beside him
and in the deepening gloom and dread that sur
/ rounded him, he reached out for sympathy atlt
aid. Then, as if recollectipg himself and the
task before him, he broke away even from those
4 three remaining TRENDS, and they saw with
H speechless grief and amazement his form disap.
n pear in the darkness.
h Jerusalem is sunk in slumber and security
h and nought but the tread of the watchmen is
h heard along the streets. The disciples in the
/ garden of Gethsomane are quietly sleeping be.
low, and all is still and solemn, as night ever is
when left alone; and the large luminous stars
y are shining down in their wonted beauty
II Hebron goes murmuring by as if singing in Its
dreams, and the olive trees rustic TO the passing
breeze as if their leaves were but half stirred
1 from their slumbeis. 1t is night, most quiet
/ Eight, with all lis accompaniment of beauty
i and of loneliness.
/ But bark, from the summit of Mount Olivet
Il rises low and plantive moan, land there stretch.
/ ed on the dewy grass, his face to the earth, is
/ seen the dim outlines of a human form. All is
still around, save that moan which rises 10 a