Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-10-04

of the highest OF all mysteries the mys-
terry of love. 1t was like vision Of the
early days Of the Church, full Of evangel-
ical peace of purity, before doubts and
dogmas, creeds and heresies arose re-
minding one of that saying that We must
become Ike little children in order to en-
ter the kingdom Of Heaven. The inHu-
ence Of the leading spirit seemed to com
municate itself to the whole company
the eager vehemence and devotion Of Peter,
the penslYe tenderness Of John, the innO-
cence and atfectionateness of them all,
with the one dark exception Of the traitor
Judas, being all so naturally and truth
fully expressed that II was hard to believe
that what was passing ones eyes was not
IN some sort a reality.
After the agony in the garden Of Geth-
Scmane followed the painful scenes Of the
Passion, when our Lord is carried to and
fro from one tribunal to another, stripped
and mocked, insulted and beaten There
was no soitening down Of the terrible story
all was shown with pitless fidelity, exactly
as it Is told IN the sacred record | need
not say that this was the crucial test Of
the performers powers a single failure
here would condemn the Ammergau play
10 mcrite4 extinction. since it would IN
yolve an outrage on religious feelings
which would not for an instant be tolerated
IN any Christian community But the
Sufferer presented by this man goes through
il all not degraded but exalted, with "a
name.css grace, Il divine silence, aud AN
absence both Of scorn and fear. No amount
Of native genius great as Mars uudoubt-
/ |cdly ID woud d suffice for this result; and
1 | verify believe that it is by the grace Of
/ God that hc Is enabled thus to present TO
The the eyes and hearts Of thousands an
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asst u,hered in by peuitental hymns from
I the chorus. came the cl imuX Of the whole
whom the Twin. crucihX was already raised
! from the earth. and stood ont white against
the h.ac, background of Cavalry. l.wa~
In awful shock to the feelings could
not he sure that IL was right TO look ou.
and was divided between an impulse 10
l rush out OF the theatre and an impulse TO
I fall GA ms knees. | was gradually reas-
-uraI part'v by observing that not ono Of
|mv companions showed any misgIy'ng>|
| au, rs the agitation >ub~ided | became
aware of another objection In ms mind
arising from totally different quarter
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