The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-03-10

They folIoWed MN IKE sa0oP "helo ci iio
went,
With feelings mixed OF wonder, fear and love
Yesl I suppose they loved him, though
they fed ;,
Stricken with fear when we arrested him."
q What alI-all fed?" | asked. Did
none remain?"
:. Not ope,, he said-''all left him TO his
Not one dared own he was follower
Not one pave witness for hi'0 OF them all.
etopl When say not one OF them, | mean
No one but Jud0s-Judas whom they call
The traitor-who betrayed him TO his death,
Re rnabed into the eonncil hall and cried,
''Tis HAYS slnued-Christus is innoeent
And hers come to what OF all I've heard
Most touched mel for this my letter write.
Paulus. YOU know, hsd only for THE man,
This Judas. words of scorn and bitter nate.
Mark now the different view that Lysias teok!
When, urged by nae his story thus he told:
- Sorns say that Judas was a base, vile man,
Who sold his master for the meauest bride,
Others again iusiss he was most right,
Giving TO Justice one who merely sought
| To over throw the Church, subvert the law,
| And on it's ruins build himself throne.
| /. knowing Judas-and none better knew
| I caring nought for Christus more than him,
But hating lies, the simple truth Will tell.
No man can say ever Told lie
| I am too old now TO begin Besides,
The truths truth, and let the truth be told.
Judas. say, alone of all the men
Who followed Christus, thought that he was
| God.
Some feared him for his power Of miracles;
some were attracted by sort of spell;
Some followed him to hear his sweet, clear
And gentle speaking, hearing with their ears,
! And knowing not the sense OF what he
said
But ons Alone believed he was the Lord,
The true Messiah Of the Jews. That one
Was Judas-hs alone of all the crowd.
:" Hs to betray his master fer q bride
He last of ali say this friend of mine
Was brave when all the rest were towards
there.
His was q noble nature frank and bold,
/ Almost to rashness bold, yetSsensitive,
Who took his dreams tor firm realities
Who once believing, oil in all believed
Rushing at obstacles and scorning risk,
Ready 10 venture AL to gain his end,
No compromise or subterfuge for him,
| His set went from his thought straight to the
bait;
Yet with zhs ardent and impatient mood
Was joined q visionary mind that took
| Impressions quick and fine, yet deep as life
| Therefore il was that in this subtle soil
! The N Asier's words took root and grew and
fowersd.
He hes I'd and followed and obeyed his faith
Was serious. earnest, real-winged to fly;
He doubted not, like some who walked with
him
Desired nc arat place., as did James and
John
Denied him not with Peter: not to him
His master said, Away, tLou'rt an offense
Get thee behind me, Satan - not to him,
Am / 80 long with We who know me not!'
Fixed as rock, attempted my desires
To gain the post of honor when his Lord
! ShOuId come 70 ruip-ohORpn from ont the
/ midst
Ofsix-score men as his apostle-then
Again selected to the place of trust,
Unselfsh, honest, he among them walked.
That he was honest, and was so esteemed,
Is plain from this-they chose him out Of all,
To bear the common purse, and take and
/ pay.
John says he was theft, because he grudged
The price that for some ointment once was
paid,
And urged 'twere better given to the poor.
But did not Christus ever for the poor
Lift up his voice. Give all things to the
pOorl
Sell everything and give all to the poor!'
And Judas, who believed, not made believe,
Used his own words, and Christus, who excu-
The gift because of love, rebuked him not.
Thief ay, he twas, this very theft, they
10 Dear the purse kUu give aims 10 Inc poor.
I, for my part, see nothing wrong in this"
" But why, if Judas was a man like this,
Frank, noble, honest "-here [ interposed--
Why was it that he thus betrayed his
Lord :"
"This question oft did revolve,'' said he,
" When all the facts were fresh, and oft revol-
we'd
In latter days, and with no change of mind
And this is my solution of the case:
DAILY he heard his masters voice proclaim
+ am the Lord the Father lives in me
Who knoweth me knows the Eternal God /!
He who believes in me shall never die
No he shall see me with my angels come
With power and glory here upon the earth
4 To Judge The quick and dead Among YOU
| here
Some shall not taste of death before 1 come
Gods kingdom to establish on the earth
"What meant these words? They seethed in
Judas soul.
Here is my God-Messias, King of kings,
Christus, the Lord, the Savior of us all.
How long shall he be tainted and reviled
And threatened by this crawling scum Of
men?
Oh, who shall urge the coming of that day
| When he in NJ aiesty shall! clothe himself
And stand before the astounded world its
King p
Long breeding over this infamed his soul
And, ever rash IN schemes as Wild in thought
Al last he said No longer will bear
This ignominy heaped upon my Lord.
No man hath power to harm the almighty
One.
Ay, lei mems hand be lifted then at nee.
Efugenl like the sun, swift like the sword
The jagged lightning flashes from the cloud.
Shall nc be ma nifest-the living God
And PROSTATE all shall on the earth adore
"Suoh was his thought when at the pqssove,
The Lord with his disciples met and SUP.
ped:
And Christus saw the trouble in his mind.
] And SAID Behold, among you here is one
That shall betray me-he to whom | give