Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1871-07-13
The Story of Saturday.
BY REV. BLEwE LAwE, D, o.

BY REV. BLEwE LAwK, D. ..
Twas on a hot Judaan saturday,
Though not 30 named at that time, and
the sun,
That steady worker, poured tireless ray
Upon the Iipening VINEYARDS, and the play
OF the glad fountains gurgled o'er with
fun.
The world rolled steadily onward towards
the east,
The unseen stars their glt.erins courses
kept,
The ocean never from his labor ceased,
The rivers ran, the flowers their bloom In
creased,
And on his wings of love no angel slept.
With reverence low each reverend head to
greet,
Full righteousness and robes Of state,
The Seribes and Pharisees, in Moses seat,
Sat ready law and judgment all to mete,
And not one jot or title 20 abatc.
Those doctors of that old divinity,
Perfect in creed, infaIlible in law,
Rigid with hide. bound text aud special plea,
Had heard that One had come who dared be
free,
And from himself his right to freedom
draw.
And they had power, too, in that time aud
place,
Ana so, before their theocratc ring
Was dragged the offender, bearing in his
face,
For All his fishers rsrs n coms,v orace
And dignity that had hss,,med a hing
A Galiiean worse, Nazarene
io"f' 'f'choiess' Seapohitss, chiid OF 'o'i;
.: lineage low and yet with such mien,
So even to" high for pride, and 60 serene
IN hoiy majesty Nhat ho' the OIL
had snch amounting evidenced The crow d
Fol- back with many beck a. d bow
FROM round the cnlprit, aud the doctors now
spoke ,ner uemahd' IN accen" io'diy
loud.
" Why has, ,hou dared profaue the dav -
thew said
The Day ""ereon no mortal may do
were S"boaths made Tor slaves to win their
bread!
SPEAK, "alilean "uilt is on thy head y
The Nazarene had ben, as if in thought,
Or ;f tho s,ones he,a,,b THAR se.ro,s tai,
10 his deep eyes, but new he slowly raised
sunonrhed. many 'front.', tue ciouded gold
VI whose loose locks the free wind back
ward rolled,
ana on that grim tribunal calmly gazed.
LAWYER and Doctor, Phsrisee and Scribe,
oathrred MS robe more closely round his
1eet'
; mu'terru 'eAt' or smiled p'ons g'be
peheath the eagle beak that marked MS
tr'be,
Aoo forward ieahed that speaking lace to
ihei' ewes sa~ nothing nut the hsher's dress,
nor marked the wondrous manhood OF the
=. 'ace
NOW ra'Sed above 1t, bfipht with holiness
Ana truth ahd power, that shone forth none
lne ie -
That thus twas answering in the culprit'
place.
one pnhch OF grapes gathered by the
foau
one ieper ava senh nome ~hoie ana ciean
one ass ! i'ghtened OF his weary load;
ohe oevil hhsteneh TO his"wh abode
one o''nd man showee the hght ne ne'er
For was hungry, and needed food
Demo"iac lerer, blind, they all we're men
No beast TOO low Tor he'p, however rdde;
Not the day only, but the deeds were good
me a''ar SACRIFICES the gut. What then
Dumb were III. scr,hes the phorsees v.,s
ann,, WY "'''
The moeking multitude crept mute awav
Though nature worked aud laughed, the law
was mum,
For, in that daliean, One had come,
Higher than law to liberste his day.
u To h,o.L - ..o,.t, ,h, ,,lo.,. on
sha,,o ~ '"''e"' '"' P'e''''
The mighty reverence that hedged !,
round;
To open evil gates in its bright wall
10 free mankind from Moses wholesome
thrall,
And sInite all sacre 1ness with deadly
wourd,"
Ono Gin ,ha lao. ,,, ,,o,d,;l u.nt,s..
T.h , ~ "'e ,r, ',', y,
The overworked, the hungry, leper. blind,