St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1864-02-18
The Person oY Jesus Christ,


The following description Of the person
Of Jesus Christ as seen through cotempora-
ry spcctaclcs, may DO Of interest to those
who profess to follow in his footsteps. 1t
was sent by Publius Lintulus, President
of Judea, to the Senate of Rome.
"Thcre lives at this time, in Judea, a
Jesus Christ. The barbarlaus esteem him
a prophet, bat hisfollowers adore him as
the immediate offspring Of the immortal
God. Re Is erdoMea with such unparalleled
virtue as to call Back the dead from their
graves, and to heMcvery disease by word
or touch: II Ills person IS tall'and elegantly
shaped, his aspect amia bic and reverend.
His hair flows in those beautiful shades
which no united colors can match, falling
into graceful curlss below his ears, agrcca
bly, touching on his shoulders and parting
on the crown Of bis head like Tho head
dress Of the. sect of the Nazaries. His
forehead Doth and large, his cheek with
out spot save that Of a lovely red, his nose
;.n1 ihopth are formed wish exquisite sym
metry, his bea,sl 'is thick and suitable rs
the hair of his head reaching little above
his chin and parting in The middle like a
fork; his eyes are bright, clear and Sc
rene. lie rebukes with majesty, counsels
with m1ldncss and invites with the most
tender and persuasive language. His
-whele address whether in word OF deed
being elegant, grave and strictly charae-
terislic Of so exalted being. No man
has seen him laugh, but the whole world
beholds him weep frequently, and so, per-
snasivc a:'e. his fears that 10. one can re-
frain from joining in sympathy with him.
lilo is very moderate. temperate and wise.
In short, whatev9r the phenomenon may
turn out in the end, lie seems a man of ex
cellcnt beauty and DIVING perfections, cv-
cry way surprising Che children OF men"
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The following description 81 an eruption
Of Mount Etna, (Sicily) is graphic p 1t is
taken from DaYard Tayler's travels. Some
ef your readers have perhaps not read it
before. t"' :, IT,,
"The heat Of tho dry ard the continued
tremor Of the air had lullcd me into sort
Of dose, when I was suddenly aroused by a
cry from the soldier and the stopping of
the diligences. At the same time there was
a terrible peal Of sound followed by jar
which must have shaken the whole island.
We looked up to. Etna, which was in full
view. An immense mass Of snow-whitc c
smoke had burst UP from the crater and
was rising perpendicularly into the air; ittr
rounded columns r-apidlyr whirlng on2
over the other, yet urged with such an i'm:
petus that they could only roll outward
after they had ascended to an immense
hight. 1t might have been one minute OF
fvc minutes, for l was SO eEtranced by
this wonderful spectacle that l lost the
sense Of time; but it seemed instantaneous
so rapid and violent were the effects Of the
explosion, when there stood in the air,
| based on the summit Of the mountain, q
mass of smoke four or FIVE miles high and
F., shaped precisely like the Italian pine tree.
words cannot paint the grandeur Of the
mighty tree. Its trunk Of colhmned smoke
one side OF which was silyercd By the sun,
while the other in sh adow was livid with
red fame: rose for more than mile be-
fore it sent out its: cloudy boughs.i Then
parting into thousand streams, each of
which again threw out its branching tufts
of smoke, rolling and waving in the air, i,
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| the sky. tits rounded masses Of foliage
were dazzling on one side, while in the
shadowy depths Of the branches, there was
aconstant play of brown, yellow and Grim.
son tints, revealing the central shaft of fire
It was like that tree celebrated by the Scan:
dinavian sages as seen by the mother Of
Harold Hardrada, that tree whose root:
pierced through the earth, whose trunk
was the color OF blood and whose branches
filled the uttermost corners Of tho heavens
~, And now from the base of the tree, three
white streams slowly .crept from as many
separate chasms, against the walls Of which
played the. Pickering glow Of sthe burning
lava. The column of smoke and fame was
still hurled upward, and the tree after
standing about ten minutes, a new Ito me-
and awful revelation of the active forces Of
nature, gradually rose and spread, lost Its
form, and slowly moved by aIlight. wind
bent over to the eastward :, The vast belt
of smoke. at last arched over the strait,
here about twenty milcsiwide and sank -
ward the distant fCalabrian shore. 8; AS We
drove under it; for several miles of our way,
4 the sun swas totally obscured;7 the sky pre-
sented the singular spectacle 5ofttwe hetlr
ispheres, Of clear blue, with belt of dark
s.drawn between. There was q hot
4 sulphurous vapor in the air, md showers
| Of white ashes fell from time to time. We
we're distant; in a direct line from the cra-
ter, but the air was SO clear that oven un-
| der the shadow Of the smoke, leo lid plain
! Ilyt ytsee the rivers Of lava flowing down the
sides ot4he volcano. piss" "3F :{ie @:{'ia'2.
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