Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1867-05-29

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the suffering and resurrection Of our
, Lord, and Of the witnesses of the res
direction, namely those who rose with
t Christ, and went into the holy city,
appeared unto men. He also tells of
the creed Of the apostles, and OF their
separation and preaching. And all
this he relates without smiling or lev
ity Of conversation, as one who is well
practiced in sorrow and the fear OF
God, always looking forward with fear
to the coming of Jesus Christ, lest at
the last judgment he should find him
in anger whom, when on his way to
death, he had provoked to just ven
geance. Numbers come to him from
different parts of the world, enjoying
his society and conversation; and to
them, if they are men of authority, he
explains all doubts on the matters on
which he is questioned He refuses
all gifts that are offered to him, being
content with slight food and clothing
Such is the account of the Wander
ing Jew left us by a chronicler who
was cOtempOrary with what he relates,
and we cannot doubt that there was
such person as the Armenian in ques.
ton, and that some impOster had as.
sumed the character Of the Jew who
was supposed TO be still wandering
about the world, until in the middle of
| the sixteenth century he made his ap
pearancc in Germany. He has now
changed his name to Ahasuers, and
has somewhat modified his story. Iti
was again bishop who had seen him
when he attended sermon at Ham
burg, where a stranger appeared in the
winter of 1915, who made himself re-
markable by the great devotion with
which he listened. When questioned
he said that be was by nation a Jew,
that his original occupation had been
! that of shoemaker, that he bad been
present at the passion Of Jesus Christ,
and that since that time he had wan
dered through many countries. He
said that he was one of the Jews who
/ dragged Christ before PLATE and were
/ clamOrOus for his death, and on the
way TO the place OF crucifxion, when
Jesus stopped to rest, he pushed him
forward, and told him rudely to go on.
| The Savior looked at him, and said, Il
shall stop and repose, but thou shalt
90 on upon which the Jew was seized
with an irresistible desire to wander,
and had left his wife and children,
whom he had never seen since, and had
travelled from one country to another,
until he now came from that country
to Germany This bishop described
him as a tall man, apparently ofabout
fifty years of age, with long hair that
hung down to his shoulders, who went
barefooted, and wore strange costume,
consisting of sailors trousers which
reached to the feet, petticoat which
descended to the knees, and a mantle
which also reached to the feet. He
was always taciturn, was never seen
to laugh, ate and drank little, and if
anybody offered him money, he never
took more than two or three pence,
which he afterwards gave away in
charity, declaring that God contributed
to all his wants. He related various
events which he had seen in different
countrys and at different times, tC
peoples great astonishment. All these
details and many more, are told in a
letter dated the Doth of June, 1894,
which was printed in German and
French On this occasion the Jew
spoke good German, in the dialect OF
Saxon, but when he, or another person
under the same character, appeared in
/ the Netherlands is 1875, he spoke
! Spanish a few years later the Wan
dcring Jew arrived in Strasburg, and
presenting himself before the magis-
/ trates, informed them that he had Wis
Ii tied their city two hundred years be
! fore, which was proved to be true, by a
reference to the registers of the town.
! The Wandering Jew proceeded next
to the West Indies, and returned
! thence to France, where he made his
appearance in 1904, and appears to
have caused very considerable sensa-
ton. AS during the time he was there
the country was visited by destructive
hurricanes, it was believed that these
visitations accompanied the Jew in his
wanderings, and this belief became so
general that in the present day IN
Brittany Picardy, when violent hur-
ricane comes on, the peasantry are in
the habit of making the sign OF cross
and exclaiming, 'C'es tie Juif-errant
ouipasse Various accounts of the
appearance of the Wandering Jew in
different parts of France at this time
were printed, and he became the sub
iect Of more than one popular ballad,
one of which is we'll known and still
popular in France, and is sold common
ly by the hawkers Of books.
There is a well-known English bal.
lad on the Wandering Jew, which is
perhaps as old as the time of Eliza
beth 1t relates to the Jews appear
ance in Germany and Flanders in the
sixteenth century.
On the 22d of April, IVA, the Wan
dering Jew, or some other Individual
who had personated him appeared in
Brussels, where he told his story to
Bourgeois; but he had changed his
name and now called himself Isaac
Laqucdem. The wanderer has not
since been heard of, but is supposed te
be travelling in some of the unknown
parts of the globe. The Histerie ad-