Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1852-04-16
New Series-Eol. 6-No. a6.

no more, but turned away. sick with ter
ror, and sal meath the shadow of palm.
whose broad green leaves hung lslesslv
and unmoved in the summer air; but still
those furious yells told her of what was
passing beyond the city, and she pressed
her hands closely over her ears, and bowed
her head on her breast.
Ii was about the sixth hour, when Zia-
ra was aroused from her stupor of fear by
SOUND like the crushing of worlds. She
started up, almost frantic with dsmav
but darkness covered the world and the
SKY save when flashes of angry light shot
athwart the gloom profound, and revealed
the temple like a mighty giant, faIipp.
with its pillars and arches aud sDires and
affairs, to the earth. Darkness again reigned,
tor the CLEANS of light darted back alright
ed and contounded 10 the gloomy skies
but finding no resting place there, shot
again athWart the reeling carth--and the
maiden saw the firm mountains noddinc
Ike drunken men, and huge rocks were
torn from their places in which creation
had planted them. Then there were sounds
along the sky like moaning and sorrowfuI
weeping, and shadowy forms glided past,
and gibbering ghosts were peering their
teshless faces and hollow eyes in the
awful scene, and the dead who had slum-
bered Tor ages arose and walked the earth.
She could look no longer, but raised her
arms aloft with one wild cry, rushed down
from The house top to the court. from
thence INTO the street, and would have run
whIthersoever her maddened and affrighted
heart led her, but strong arm encircIed
her; she looked not, she saw not, but fell
lnsenslble on the breast of Festia of Sa-
maria.
When she awoke from her swoon, her
bond woman was bending over her, but
her lace was SO white and unearthly pale,
mat Aara shrunk back, shivering.
Go, oh, go from me Festia they have
come again with their pale faces Father.
Festla, save me-
'Lady!' said the low musical voice of
Miriam, fear not, it is thy slave
'Ha ! Miriam oh. Miriam put thine
arms around me and hold me fast, or nv
heart will throb until it breaks Such a
the dead walking and earth shaking, the
very sun, oh Miriam tell thee
She could not continue, for fear had so
stricken her, that nature shrunk from the
conflict, and she once more lost conscious
ness.
Miriam threw her arms around her in
sensible form, and uttered a wild cry of
sorrow, and kissed her pale lips most fond
ly, then arose and kneeling before the al
Tar, bowed her head to the cold floor, and
when Joseph of Aramathea visited his
daughters couch. he found the dead bond
woman kneeling, rigid and cold, before his
daughters place Of prayer; and the good
man raised her tenderly, and placed her on
a couch, and so placid and happy was the
smile on her lip and brow, that the Coun-
sellor tclt an assurance that her soul was
dwelling with the holy angels of Heaven.
Many days and weeks had passed TO
eternity, and in that space of time, desola-
ton seemed to have made her home in Je-
rusalem. Not that ruin immediately fell
upon the proud city; but there was a.
gloom, dread of impending ruin, which
seemed TO quail the sloutest heart. The
counsellor OF Aramathea, and Festia, with
the lady ZIara, whose mind had not vet re-
covered the shock of the awful scenes she
left Jerusalem, and took I'D
their abode in Tarsus, where they were
hearing of the mysterious re-
surrectlon of Him who was cruci6ed-
Of his ascension to the glorious inheritance
OF Heaven; and the household of joseph
OF Aramathea were stunned by the rulers
and the great and mighty counsellors, be-
cause they were the professed disciples of
Him whom they scorned Feslia of Sa-
maria received the counselors daughter
IN marriage, and they lived according to
the rules of the new Revelations, practic-
ing virtue and good deeds-humble, char
liable, and given to good works. They
needed not the persecution which ragged
against the followers of Christ, and the
good Joseph of Aramathea. who had given
the Saviour of the world tomb, was
blessed abundantly in every desire his
heart framed for the prayer of the right
eous man returneth on his head with much
Oy.