Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1868-04-22

WnSned thetr nands, according 10 tne
traditions of the oral law and in accord
ance with the DECISIONS of the lawyers,
the Pharisees hate him.
We pass over twelVemoDth and think
of him during the last weeks of his life,
making Bethany his home. Walk with
me over the hill. 1t is superb panora-
ma which is spread before US as we stand
on the summit--tbe whole country east
ward to the Dead Sea is in view. We
look down upon hills. ravines, valleys
here and there olive groves, in the dis
tance the Jordan and the Dead Sea. how
clear the dark blue water, rejecting the
mountains We descend the eastern
slope, walk out upon srur of the noun.
tain toward the southeast. wind round its
summit, descending again. and behold a
, miserable Arab village, the ancient Beth
any, on the hillside. a ravire in front
leading southeast. You will have to ira
, vel to Gnd in America such squalor as
. that before you-huts of stone, the earth
for the floor, heaps of filth around the
door, women with faces tattoed, wearing
, the dirtiest of coarse blue cotton sacks.
, This was the home of Lazarus, Martha
, and Mary, wealthy family, heart friends
of Jesus
We behold Jesus coming from Galiee
to attend the feast of Tabernacles The
national festival held in the autumn in
commcmoration of the time when the
Children Of Israel dwelt in tents. The
fruits are gathered---it is season Of
thanksgiving continuing week. The
air is balmy, the nights warm, and the
multitude from the country build booths
, all over Olivet, beneath the sheltering
q branches of the old olive trees, the myrtle
and willow. In the morning they 9ock
t to the temple at the time Of sacrifice,
bearing branches of palm and singing the
, Psalms of David In the evening they
draw water from the pool Of Sloan, in
commomoration OF the water which their
fathers drew from the fountains which
burst forth for them in the desert. Upon
the stairway and in the courts of the
temple stands the great choir of singers
singing songs Of praise, while the multi.
, tudc pass in and out, laying their offer.
, ings upon the altar.
: In that ASSEMBLY, the character of the
good Physician is discussed. We heal
their words:
"Where is he 2"
"Will be come to the feast p
"He is good man"
No; be is deceiver."
While the discussion is going on the
hysician enters the temple. Turn to
g the seventh chapter Of John and you will
n find the narrative OF what took place al
S that feast; the lawycrs bringing the wo.
o man taken in adultery; the Physician
e writing on the ground His answer tc
n the lawyers. At night he is out here
upon the Mount Of Olives among his
s friends.
e Two months later he is here at the
q feast of Dedication in December. He
: walks in Solomon's porch-the great col.
: onade along the eastern wall overlooking
the Kedron. Everybody is anxious to
, know what he thinks of himself-wbether
e he is the long expected Christ. John has
given us the account in the 10th chapter
/ OF his EVsDgel. t
: We may think of scene at Bethany,
. two months or more later--thc sickness
s of LlEarus--the sister sending messen
g ger down over the bills, across the Jordan
: to the Good Physician, who has gone over
=. there We way imagine the painful hours
the longing of the weary watchers for
the sound Of his approaching footsteps
: the earnest gazings down the valley to
s see if he is coming--death Fastening on
6 the last pulsaton the burial. How
s little can we comprehend their sorrow
t There has been no victory over death.
The son of God has not yet passed thro'
the gloom of the grave to pluck out the
sting of the last enemy. Their brother
: has gone to the land of spirits, though
: the sadducees deny that there isqny such
, land For the weeping sisters there il
no such comfort as ouis when we lay our
loved one to rest. We think Of them as
in better world. where
y "All is Tranquil and serene,
Calm and indisturbed rcpose
4 Where no cloud can intervene,
Where no angry tempest blows;
Where all tears are wiped away.
! Sighs no more to heave the breast.
Night Is lost in endless day,
G sorrow In eternal rest"
{ We see the Good Physician coming uT
} the slope Of the hill below US. Martha
Q going out to meet him, and then the
G gathering 1t the cave 1t was somewhere