The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-04-16


I Offerings upon the altar.
In that assembly the character of
| the good Physician IS discussed. We
/ hear their words
Where Is he 2"
VIII he come to the feast r.
He Is good man.
. No: he is deceiVer."
While the discussion is going on
/ the Physician enters the temple
Turn to the seventh chapter OF John
and you will find the narrative of what
took place at that feast; the lawyers
bringing the woman taken in adultery;
the Physician writing on the ground;
His answer to the lawyers. At night
/ he IS out here upon the Mount of
Olives among his friends.
Two months later he is here at the
feast of Dedication IN December. He
walks in Soloman porch-the great
eolonade along the eastern wall over
looking the Kedron. Everybody is
/ anxious to know what he thinks of
himself-whether he is the long ex-
pected Christ John has given US
the account in the 10th chapter of his
| Evsngel.
/ We may think Of a scene at Beth
any, two mouths or more later-the
sickness of Lazarus-the sister send
I ing a messenger down over the hills,
across the Jordan, to the Good Phyi- +.
clan, who has gone over there. We
mag imagine the painful hours-the
longing of the weary watchers for the
sound Of his approaching footsteps
I the earnest gazIngs down the valley to
see if he is ceming-death fastening
on-the last pulsati0n-the burial
How little can we comprehend their
sorrow There has been no victory
oveg death. The son Of God has not
yet passed through the gloom of the
grave to pluck out the sting of the
last enemy. Their brother has gone
to the land Of the spirits, though the
Saducees deny there is any such land.
For the weeping sisters there is no
such comfort As ours when we lay our
loved one TO rest. We think of them
as in a better world, where
"All is tranquil and serene,
Z CAIN and undistaTbed reDose: -aa
Where no cloud can intervene,
Where no angry To a. pest blows;
/. Where all tears are wiped away, t 81
\ Signs no more TO heave the breast,
Night Is lost n endless day,
Sorrow Ia eternal rest. -
( We see. the Good Physician coming
Martha going out to meet him, and
then the gathering at the cave 1t
was somewhere here By one of the
many caves in the limestone ledge. /
Read the aecount-how the Physician
wept tears of human sympathy-how
tie dead came forth; and fill up the
scene with what followed in Jerusa-
lem-the hatred Of the Pharisees-
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behold at one view-braught together
in the Same picture-intinite tender
ness and love, and iendish malignity
and hate.
We pass over a few days, to the last
week of the month of March. The
Winter is gone, aud the hills are
clothed with the yerdure Of Spring. 1
The Good Physician has been making
a last visit to the country across the |
j ordan, and he comes up to Jerusa-
lem to keep the MISUNDERSTANDING at
this quiet home Of his friends on Fri
day evening" week before the feast.
He. takes. supper with Lazarus -
Martha waiting upon them - Mary
opening a box of perfume, no perfume
of the Orient more costly, 8ad anoint-
ing his feet. His disciples are there
Judas among them = Directing to
the waste
On Sunday. the 1st of April, there
is a crowd of people in the village.
They have heard in Jerusalem of the
Physicians arrival at Bethany-that
he is stopping with the man who was
raised from the dead. The fame of
Jesus has spread wonderfully. Who
but he shall deliver from the bondage
of Rome? Thousands pour out from
the city. We see the gathering of
the multitude-the long procession
the branches of palnl-Jesus upon an
ass-the procession going up one of
the paths--probably the one leading
round the southern slope of Olivet /
We hear the shouting, as the multi /
tude pass on. We see Jesus behold /
ing the ely, weeping over it, predict |
ing its overthrow, entering the tenn
ple-the children crying Hosanna to /
the son of David {" Tn the evening
he comes TO Bethany again, and on /
Monday morning again enters the |
temple, driving out as once before the /
market men.
We might follow on, noticing in
detail the events of the week; but /
who has not read them-the last talk I
with the disciples, how he washed
their feet. John has given US the ac-
count of the scene in the 18th chap
ter; and 10 words so full Of tender /
ness and love as those spoken by
Jesus at that supper.
THE LAST SCENE.
Going back now from Bethany to the /