The St. Cloud journal., 1873-01-02
THE WANDERING JEW.

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When our ! Saviour, bending be-
aeath . .aihs weight OF His cross,
sought to obtain few momc1's Of re-
pose on the door-steps Of SalatLisl,
the; Jew, that barbarous mas, with 10.
sulting language, drove Him away, who,
struggling to continue His journey, BE-
came overpsvsred BY The weigh Of His
cross, fsltersd, and fell to the earth ;
yet, without uttsriug erean. He rose
again and went On hu way. The Saw,
iour ofthe world condemned to death BY
nas, and made to carry tho instrument
Of His torture on His back. wss sight
which should have paled tho cheek Of
His prosecutors; but they reviled-
they meokcd Hin.
The avsngiog angel appeared be.
fore Salathlel and said
"Thou hast refused rssting place to
the Son of Man. Cruel wretch All
rest on earth shall be refused to thee
in return. A dark demon, let losse
from hell for tho purpose, shall drive
thee from cline to cline. Salathiel,
even The hope Of death and the rspose
Of. the tomb shall be withhold I"
These words were hisssd int the ear
Of the Jew, and hs fell upon the earth
a if 10 had been struck by lightning.
Nearly two thousand years psapsd
away, yet s.la.hiel was still pursuea by
demon over the whole face Of the
earth. One day he arrived near the
cavern Of Mount Carmel, and shaking
the dust from his long beard, hs took
asksl from . heap Of human bones
piled up nsar him and threw it Abm
the mountain j.; it rolled and bouadsd,
striking against the rocks bslsw, was
shivsred 70 pieces. ut w my
1athsr's, " said Salathsisl.
my parents, my friends, ny a..
q1aistauees, ny wife and children all
psrnhed. All they could die bat l
the doomed, eannst die. The jude:
meat Of Hssvsa trovas over ny head
my guilty head-aad life, vhish t.
Ill sls 10 blessing, 70 me il . eurse.
"Jsrusalen fell BY the Roma. psw.
u; FIRE consumed tho city !; psl.ess
ersnblsd to the ground, and ths tep.
pies were ~ torches to the msddsaed
soaisry; men, wsnsu and children
were butshered all, all but me alone !!
I sssrted every danger, d.6ed lskions
Of Romans ; rushed upon their spears,
but a. Invisible hand wardea their
loiats from me; I was their conqueror
instsad of their victim. Rome, in her
turn, tottsred to fall. I rushed 70 her
that / might be buried beneath her
ruins tho Colossus was broken and
proetrated but it could not crush me,
Though the wise and the great, the
good and the powerful, were ell de-.
stroJed With her.
"NatisD', empires and kingdoms, rose
and fell before me; I alone rem.ir I'd
alive. Pestilenee swept over the land !;
I saufaed up tho tain ted breath Of th.
dying, and hagged tho dead In ny
arms. That which WAS death TO al but
mo was a narcotic. l slept in the
oharnel-h ouse and awsko refreshed
Dsuh pa,.ed me IN dread.
An avalanche fell through the air,
and swept me into the sen. / theue ehs
death had pitied ne, and laug he'd as
l Was carried into the feamy water, !;
but the surges threw me back again on
the shore, and the poisonous cup Of
human existence was put again, in all
its bitterness, to my lips.
II went to the edge of the crater of
Etna, and sprang into its profound
abyss, and, bowling with madness and
despair, fell init. the burning lava but
the mountain would not grant me m
asylum in the midst of its consuming
bosom it threw me up again on this
sinful earth; and though the flames of
the eruption set fire TO-. whole districts
OF country, thoasA the highest spires
OF tho greatest cities disappeared be.
meath the liquid Laws, before me the
hams and lava stayed their work of de-
struction. A forest caught the flames
-in the midst of dslirium aad dis
traction, I rushed smorg the burning
trsea. Hot rosin fell drop by drop up.
on my scorohiDg limbs the fire ragged
around me; the heat dried ny bones,
and the flames tortured mo With their
Kissing fury. Death b.andished his
seyths over me; bent my head to
receive tho blow, but At that msmsst
hs caught my fixed gaze, and fed to
destroy the good and the happy. Death
~ss no longer the sonquersr-hs feared
II joined the standards Of the
mighty warriors Of the esrth-the des-
ela'ors Of the land, tho oonqueripg be.
rsss, the mighty butchers Of the hu.
man rass-and followed them III al
their wars. I 1sought the thisksst Of
the fight, where blood flowed 10 rivers,
whore men were swept away like dry
saad before the hurricane, whore de-
st1aetion piled hundreds upon hun.
drsds Of the human race; yet was
left alone. I brsved the G.ul and the
Norman-1 de6ed the hordes Of Ger.
many; but their darts and their lances
broke like dry reeds against my body.