The Plymouth pilot. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1851-1852, 1851-08-06
SACRED SCENES.
THE AGONY.

AS the scene on Cavalry's top is ever
remembered by all who have heard the
glad tidings of the Gospel, so that which
transpired in Gethsemane. can never be
forgotten. Both are parts of the same
great drama, whose cnacting made angels
wonder. and whose tragic ending caused
nature TO shrink and tremble.
So amazing spectacle cannot be fully
realized. The humane and the divine;
the natural and the pretcrnatural, are
there so mysteriausly blended, that our
finite understandings must ever fail TO
comprehend, and, by consequence. We
fail to realize them. And yet, histori-
cal fact, Christ's Agony. is familiar to
rs. and as touching story, it has drawn
tears from many an eye.
The Passover has been eaten; the Last
Supper taken; the hymn sang; and Jesus
now bends his steps towards the Mount
OF Olives. Eleven Of His disciples are
with Him. Who, and where is the
twelfth. 1t is Judas, and he tarries be-
hind to lead that ''multitude." soon TO
arrest the Saviour. He need not accom-
pany the other disciples SO as to prevent
suspicion that he is :he betrayer; for Je-
suS, but little W lie ago, declared him
to be the man. de that dippeth his
hand with me in the dish" This point
ed out Judas as the traitor. And Thou
hast said in answer to this question, is
it IL" and made the person unmistaka-
BILE.
OH how solemn the words OF Jesus, as
He walked along with His disciples
And when He says, "All We shall be Of
Tended because of me, this night" me-
thinks | see them look, aStonished, into
His face. and they we'll nigh pause on
their way. | hear impulsive Peter ex-
claim Though all men shall be offended
because Of Thee. yet will never be Of
tended" Oh! noble resolve! But Peter
sadly lacked firmness TO maintain it,
They have passed out of Jerusalem,
and over Kedron. 1t is night, dark
night. No moon is in the heavens, and
thicA clouds are floating above. Here,
and there, star appears. and then sud
denly hid; like the eye of an angel de-
sirous yet afraid TO look upon the scene
Jerusalem is silent. There is peculiar
stiffness in that city. Who there thinks
Of the Saviors travail of soul, or has the
remotest conception of the "bloody
sweat" he is about to undergo?
Hark! Jesus speaks. He says TO His
disciples. "Sit We here while go yon-
der and pray" He removes little space
and Peter, James and John accompany
Him. And now he is ''sorrowful and
very heavy" o! who may comprehend
that sorrow and heavincss. The guilt
of the world is upon Him. and His soul
sinks beneath the enormous weight
Turning to Peter and the two sons CT
Zrbedee, Tie mournfully says: Nv soul is
exceedingly sorrowful, even unto death.
Here his human nature was reaching out
for human consolation. Then. despair
ing of the consolation He had sought.
He went little farther, fell upon his
face, and prayed, saying. 20. my ia Their!
II II be possible, let this cup pass from
me-" But it might not pass.
And now. behold him stretched OH the
dew wet grass? His sighs and groans
fell strangely and mournfulIy upon his
disciples ears. Big drops of bloody
sweat-evidence of mental agony indie
scribabIe, fell upon the ground; and the
grass is colored with the crimson stain.
To the disciples He returns anu says
t5rt, VIII. cotii you not watch
with me one hour?" All! he'd he thus
.aIn ~ hou? Even So. And now He
had found his disciples asleep. O, how