Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1863-06-17

Gloria IN enceis's Deo, ct IN terra par hom-
mbus boa@ roiontests-Glory to God in
the highest, and on earth peace to men of
good will
g After a short stay, the holy family
again resumed their journey. Egypt is
distant from Judea a journey of sixteen
days. On their arrival in Egypt, all the
false gods of the country fell from their Pc
destals, wherever the holy family passed.
The Egyptians, seeing this, hastened in
great multitudes to adore the holy family.
The philosophers, however, rallied at and
rebuked them for prostrating themselves
in worship before people who, they said,
were human beings like themselves. To
whom the simple minded countrymen an
swered-'Our own gods have fallen down
in their presence, and should not we do the
same? Having sojourned for considera-
bic period in Egypt, an angel appeared to
Joseph in his sleep, and commanded him
TO return TO Judca where King Ierod
had just died miserable death"
We will not ut present follow Aha
suerus, narrating all the details Of the
boyhood of Christ, although they con-
tain some of the most charming incidents
of domestic life, and which we may. per-
haps, commit to writing at some future
time We will hasten on to the recital
of the Passion, where the author intro
duces the fIightful biography of Judas.
the second type of the deicidal Jew; and
will relate in the simple but energetic Ian
guase of our biographer, Ahasuerus.
BIOGRAPHY OF JUDAS.
81 have now come,' continued Aha
suerus, TO the geneology of Judas.
Ills father was decended from the tribe of
Reuben. A gardner by profession, in his
spare hours he planted and cultivated a
considerable orchard of his own. When
his mother was pregnant with Judas, she
had terrible dream one night, that she
brought fourth child, with n crown
Offering with gems and precious stones in
his hads; which, after admiring a few
moments, he flung to TO the ground and
broke in thousand pieces. Then she
thought in her dream, that she saw this
same child, with demon passion on his
brow, stealing unawares, like a tiger on
his prey, and telled with one blow of
heavy axe, his own father to the ground.
She saw him then, after this awful parri-
eide, bursting in through q window of
the holy temple, breaking all the holy or
naments, stealing the most valuable. and
then rush away to hide his sacrilerious
robbery.
His mother started from sleep, af-
fI1ohta1 Will, s,,rb
related it TO hey husband, who, in alarm
sought everywhere for some person TO in
terpret the dream. AT length he was
told that he would have a son who wouId
murder a king and his own father. and
would be guilty of vilIainy of the bIa OK
est dye, TO crafty the erasping avarice
that would reign in his heart.
The poor father on hearin" such an
awful prediction, became sad and incon-
solable. At length to escape the threat
encd catastrophe, he and his wife resolved
TO put the infant, rs soon as born, in a
basket, and float it down the river
They put their plan into execution. Ju-
das was only ten days old when he was
consigned by his father to the waves of
the Jordan, n river that disembonues it
self into the Dead Sea. The basket
which contained Judas, driven bv the
winds, dritted toward the Island of Can
dia. The king of the island, walking
with his wife along the sea shore, per
ccived the basket floating in the water
and ordered ii to be fetched in. to see
what might be it contents On openinu
the basket, they were astonished to nor
ceise beautiful infant, gasping for susie
nance, and on the point of death. Re-
treshment was Immediately administered.
and he was brought TO the palace to be
raised as the kings son. When he was
SIX years old he gave him the name of
Judas, for he knew by the clothes found
III the basket, that he was Jewish
child
Judas received the same treatment
as the kings only son. This youno
prince was one year older than Judas.
When they reached more mature ace.
the prince observed that Judas was oc-
customed to pilfer and steal Jewels, mon
ey, and amy article of value that his
skill could enable him to conceal. The
prince complained of him to the king. his
father, who Immediately sent fer Judas
and had his pockets carefully searched.
The princes complaint was too true.
They found hid on his person money,
Jewels OF great value,' rings, and other
valuable ornaments he had stolen from
the prince and the queen. The king
got quite enraged, and whipped him Sc
vereiy-' Begone, instantly,' said he.
know that you are no son of mine YOU
are toundlins, rescued from a waterv