Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1867-05-21

full that Gospel sounds when read on the spot
1t commentaries. The past tense becomes
the present. The scene is no, finished bu,
transPiring. Right there in that cell the
! corpse has been lying four DAYS, and every
day Mary has been here to weep. The noise
OF conversation, as of many persons above. I
begin to hear.
A shadow is in the door It is It's. The
Iong-expected aud prayed-fo has come from
beyond Jordan. His mellow voice, tremu-
lous with emOsiOG, but loud with authority
peais down the arched staircase and echoes
among those sepulchral walls, :. Lazarus come
forth !' 1t goes deep beyond. reaching into
the regions of death. Hush do YOU hear
that rustling? Seel be comes stoopiDp
bound band and foot with grave clothes and
his face bound About with a napkin" Slow
" he mounts the steps. lie is on the thresb
hold. He has passed ont under the sky.-
Listen again ''LooSe hiBl and let him goy'
And Lazarus, the dead brother no longer
dead, is-in the arms of his bereayed sisters
no longer bereaved. Neighbors gather around
aud passionately greet him. Bethany is glad
The news flies throughout the land. Crowds
come from Jerusalem to see ''the man" who
has wrought the wonder, aud believe him God.
THE GARDEN OF GETHsEMANE.
We return to 'Gethsemane, over the south
ern shoulder of Olivet, by the road Messiah
followed on the morning of his triumpbal en-.
try into Jerusalem. Our raps are more sue.
cesstul now than before, for the heavy iron
gate soon swings open with creak, exhibit
ing the tonsured Padre Louis, who invites us
into the garden. 1t disapPoints at first
mere Is TOO much OF art, too little of nature
Ihe happy medium, so desirable and so rarely
obtained, between culpabls neglect and ex.
IL mot
which has already prepared a Gethsemane Of
its own does not at onOe recognize the claim of
this; objects to the imprisoning walls. TO the
trim parterres to the front yard neatness of
the ratings, to the prayer>stations arithmet-
lcally calculated, and marked by crucifixes on
the succeed enclosure, to the air of perEect
readiness for the scrutiny of fconnoisseur>shio
in the whole.
But the eye speedily becomes accustomed
to what 1t can not alter and concentrates its
attention upon the olive trees, doubly grand
grand from their palpable antiquity, grand
from association with incidents of which thew
are the sole surviving spectators on earth
hese trees are eight in number. Their
Gnar'ed and massive stems, and far spreading
leaty boughs, give them the appearance at
patriarchs in the attitude of BLESSING can
not understand why they should not be as
old as the event requires, nor do desire to |
understand, if an illusion loveiier than the |
truth is to be dissolved by the explanation.
L abandon criticisms to erudite cavilers and
recIlne under the foliage Of the largest and
most ancient of the trees-the one supposed
to have overshadowed the victim of prostra- |
tiops OF agony. Here then, with soul ex>
ceedIng sorrowful unto death, He fell on the |
ground and prayed, while His disciples slept
a stones throw hence, too fatigued to watch |
Him. Here thrice lie bowed bimselF and
groaned the entreaty to be delivered from
the mysterious cup. Oh the intensity of
that struggle. 1t wrung the crimson per-
spiration from His temples, and forced the
strengthening suecor Of anxious Heaven: but
its issue was victory, and its fruit eternal life