American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1846-08-28

then murmured in mournful accents: Weep
not for me, but l0eep for yourselves, your lCiueS
and your Children" Jerusalem on fire sudden
ly rose to his vision, together with its famine
struck and bloated population, staggering and
dying around the empty market places-the
heaps of the dead that loaded the air with pes
thence, and all the horror and woe and carnage
of that last dreadful seige; and forgetful Of his
own suffering, he exclaimed, "Heep nottor ME,
but for yourselves and your children"
| At length the procession reached the hilltop,
and Christ was laid upon the ground, and his
arms stretched along the timber he had carried,
with the palms upturned, and through them
spikes driven, fastening them to the wood. Me-
thinks hear the strokes of the hammer as it
sends the iron, with blow after blow, through
the quivering tendons, and behold the painful
workings of that agony-wrung brow, and the
convusive heavng and swelling of that bless
ed bosom, which seemed striving to rend above
the imprisoned heart
At length he is lifted from the ground-his
weight dragging on the spikes through his
hands, and the cross piece inserted into the NOR
tice of the upright timber, and heavy iron
crushed through his feet, fastening them to the
main post, and he is left to de- Why speak
of his agony-of his words of comfort to the
dying thef--of the multitude around him, or
!
look on that pallid face and flowing blood coald
one get any conception of the suffering of the
victim. The gloom and terror that began to
gather round the soul, as every aid, human and
divine withdrew itself, and it stood alone in the
deserted, darkened universe, and shuddered,
was all unseen by mortal eye. Yet even in
this dreadful hour his benevolent heart did not
forget its friends Looking down from the
cross, he saw the mother that bore him gazing
in tears upon his face, and with feeble and
tremulous voice, he turned to John, who had
so often lain in his bosom, and said, "Son, be-
hold thy mother" Then turning to his mo-
Their, he said, "Behold thy son." His business
with earthly things was now over and he sum-
moned his energies to meet the last most terri
BILE blow, before which nature itself was to give
way. He had hitherto endured all without a
complaint-the mocking-the splitting upon
the cross, the nails and the agony-but now
came a woe that broke his heart. His fathers
his oicn fathers from began to darken upon
him. Oh, who can tell the anguish of that
loving, trusting, abandoned heart at the sight
, 1t was too much, and there arose a cry so pierre
, ing and shrill and wild that the universe shiv-
t cred before it; and as the cry "My God, my
l God, lUhy hast THOU torsaken me?" fell on the
ears of astonished mortals, and filled heaven
, with alarm. The earth gave groan, as if she
/ too was about to expire; the sun died in the
n heavens; an earthquake Numbered on to COM
e plete the dsmay; and the dead could no longer
d Sleep hut burst their CHASTITY cerements, and
came forth to look upon the scene. That was
t the gleomiest wave that ever broke over the
{ soul of the Saviour, and he fell before it
: Christ tUaS dead: and to all human appearance,
/ the world was an orphan.
How heaven regarded this disaster, and the
n universe felt at the sight, cannot tell. know
e not but tears fell like rain-drops from angelic
G eyes, when they saw Christ spit upon and struck
f | know not but there was silence on high for
a more than "halfan hour" when the scene OF
t the crucifxion was transpirng--a silence I'M
It broken save by the solitary sound of some harp
string on which unconsciously fell the agtated
n trembling fingers of a seraph. know not but
n all the radiant ranks on high, and even Gabriel
8 himself turned with the deepest solicitude to the
Fathers face, to see if he was calm and untrou'
b bled amid it all. know not but lis composed
: brow and serene majesty were all that restrain
k ed heaven from one universal shrek OF horror
n when they heard creams on Calvary. dying
E groans. know not but they thought God had
IF given his glory TO another" but one thing
j. do know-that when they saw through the vast
It design, comprehended the stupendous scheme
the hills of God shook to a shout that never be-
fore rung over their bright tops, and the crysta
j. sea trembed to a song that had never before
d stirred its bright depths, and the "GLoRY TC
n COP IN THE HIGHEST" was "sevenfold cho'
1t rus of halleluiahs and harping symphonies"
,f Yet none of the heavenly cadences reached
e the earth, and all was sad, dark and despairing
ir around Mt. Calvary. The excitement which
J., the slow murder had created vanished With
t, none to resist, and none to be slain, change
+ came over the feelings of the multitude, and
% they began one by one to return to the city
N The sudden darkness also, that wrapped the
n heavens, and the throb of the earthquake which
made those three crosses reel TO and fro like &C.
n dars in tempest, had sobered their feelings
l. and all but the soldiery were glad to be away
n from scene that had ended with such super
natural exhibitions. Gradually the nese and
a confusion around the hilltop receded down the
d slopes--the shades Of evening began to creep
'. over the landscape, throwing INTO still more
n CHASTITY relief those three white cerpses stretch
= ed on high and streaked with blood and all
l. was over. No not now, for the sepulchre was
h yet 10 open, and the slain Christ was to mount
h the heaven Of heavens in his glorious ascen.
,fI sion.
i will not speak of the moral grandeur of the
J. atonement--of the redemption purchased by the
~ agony and death on Calvary, for they are ia,
d miliar to all. Still they constitute the great
le ness and value of the whole. 1t is the atone
g. ment that makes Mount Calvary chief among
8, the "Sacred Mountains gives it such altitude
v that no mortal eye can its top, or bear the
e full etfulgence gifts glory. Paul called on hi
70 young disciples to summon their strongest en-
n ergies and bend their highest efforts to compre
IS bend the "length and breadth aud depth anc
r, height" of This stupendous theme-'a length
n which reaches from everlasting to everlasting
/. a breadth that encompasses every intelligence
!, and every interest; depth which reaches the
> lowest state of human degradation and misery
!, and height that thro,cs floods Of glory on h