Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-10-08

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the hottest of the fight and nerved him with ten
fold courage.
As the sun went down over the plains OF Pal
estne, and twilight shed its dim rays over the
rent and trodden and dead-covered field, a sui
phurous cloud hung around the summit of Mount
Tabor, The smoke of battle had settled there
where once the cloud of glory rested while
groans and shrieks and cries rent the air. Naz-
areth, Jordan, and Mount Tabor what spots
for batte-ieIds
Roll back twenty centuries and again view
that hill. The day is bright and beautiful as
then, and the same rich oriental landscape is
smiling in the tame sun There is Nazareth
with its busy population-the same Nazareth
from which Kleber marched his army and there
is Jordan rolling its bright waters along
same Jordan along whose banks charged the
gIittering squadron OF Murats cavalry and
there is Mount Tabor-the same on which Bo-
naparte stood with his cannon and the same
beautiful plain where rolled the smoke of battle
and struggled thirty thousand men in mortal
combat But how different is the scene which
is passing there The Son of God stands on
that height and casts his eye over the quiet val
ley through which Jordan winds its silver cur
rent Three friends are beside HIM; they have
walked together up the tolsome way, and now
the four stand, mere specks on the distant sum-
NIT. But the glorious landscape at their feet is
forgotten in subimer scene that is passing be-
fore them The son of Mary-the carpenter OF
] Nazareth-the wanderer with whom they have
ate and drank and travelled on foot many wea-
ry league, In all the intimacy of companions and
friends, begins to change before their eyes Over
his solIed and coarse garments is spreading a
strange light, steadily brightning into ntenser
beauty, till that form glows with such splendor
that it seems to waver to and fro and dissolve in
the still radiance. The three astonished friends
gaze on it in specifies admiration, then turn to
that familiar face But 10, greater change
has passed over it. The man has put on the
God, and that sad and solemn face that has been
seen so often STOPPING over the couch Of the dy-
ing, and entering the door of the hut of poverty
and in the streets of Jerusalem, and by the wca-
ry waysIde-aye believed with the tears of pity,
now burns like the sun in his midday splendor
Meekness has given way to majesty sadness tc
dazzling gIory--the look of pity to the grandeur
Of God. The still radicnce of heaven sits on
that serene brow, and all around that divine form
flows an atmosphere of strange and wondrous
beauty. Heaven has poured its brightness over
that consecraed spot, and on the beams of light
that glitter there, Moses aud Elias have descend
ed, and, wrapped in the same shining vestments
stand beside him. Wonder follows wonder, fol
those three gIitering forms are talking with each
other, and amid the thrilling accents are hearc
the words Mount OIivet," 1" Calvary" the az
ony and the death Of TIE crucihxion Peter
awc-suuck and overcome, feeling also the iuAu
ence Of that heavenly atmosphere, and carried
away by sudden impulse, says to Jesus, in low
and tremulous accents at is good to be here
let US build three tabernaces one for thee, one
for Moses, and one for Elias Confused by
the scene and dazzIed by the splendor, he wa,
ignorant what he was saying. lie knew not the
meaning OF this sudden appearance, but he knew
that heaven was near aud God revealing himself
and he felt that some sacred ceremony would be
.
ed gaze was fixed on the three forms before him
his unconscious lips murmured forth the feeling
of his heart No wonder a sudden fear came
over him that paralyzed his tongue and crushed
him to the earth, when in the midst of his speecl
he saw cloud fall like falling star from heav
en-, and, bright and dazzling balance itself oye
those forms of light, Perhaps his indscrec
interruption had brought this new messenger
down, and from its bosom the thunder and flame
Of Sinai were to burst, and he fell on his fact
in silent terror. But that cloud was only can
opy for its God, aud from its bright folding
came a voice saying, "This is my beloved Son
in whom am well pleased, hear We Him.
How long the vision lasted we cannot tell
but all that night lid Jesus with his friends sta
on that lonely mountain. OF the conversation
that passed between them we know nothing bu
little sleep, We imagine, visited their eyes tina
night and as they sat on the high summit am
watched the stars as they rose one after anothe
E above the horizon, and gazed on the moon a
she poured her light over the dim and darkene'
landscape, words were spoken that seemed borl
Of heaven; aud truths never to be forgotten wer
uttered in the eais of the subdued and rever
ent disciples.
Oh, how different is heaven and earth. Car
there be a stranger contrast than the Battle ant
e TRANSPORTATION of Mount Tabor! One shud
dels to think of Bonaparte and the Son Of CO.
on the same mountain; one with his wastn
E cannon by his side, aud the other with Nose
! and Elias just from heaven 1t is like seem
the devil and the angels in the same Eden gan
den.
But no after dissertation can destroy the frs
consecration of Mount Tabor for baptized wit
the glory of heaven and honored with the won
q drous scene of the TRANSPORTATION. it stands tn
fifth Sacred Mountain on the earth.
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S NIGHT IN ARABIA-Those who have see
q nothing but the inky skies of our own land say