The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-07-05


lection except his alone; that the dead wa
once more among them-living, and hencefortl
immortal-their Master and God the ultimat
Judge of this world, and the foretold Fouude
of an everlasting kingdom! Plate adde,
several strange and astounding particulars.
This, in q general way, is known; and it il
likewise known that Tiberius Cesar was s,
deeply impressed by the dispatch of the Jeru
salem governor, arriving in his hands about
the same moment, as we shall find in tho next
chapter when strange incident (narrated b,
Ptutdrch) took place, that he suddenly con.
vened the senate in formal induction, and
proposed to them to raise temple to Christ and to
rank him solemhly among the gods Of the empire !
But not such of such Acknowledgements
was to be the kingdom of the "jealous" and
the only God.
AGlais Paulus, and Esther had assisted at q
memorable pantomime. They had beheld the
soldier who rode with a memorable letter to
the sea-coast; they had seen the vain effort of
him who had offered the people a choice be-
| tween Barabbas and the desired of nations
to call the great of the earth into his perplexi
ties to quiet his awakened conscience, to turn
aside from the dread warnings whispered to
his soul, to lull by futile means-an all too
late remorse.
CHATTER XVII.
In our last chapter, Psulus and his Athepian
mother had obtained, through Esther's recital
OF her waking dream vision, one little
glimpse at that prison, that place of detention.
which she had termed Gas she herself had
heard it termed) "the dim vast house." the
vast, dim city," and the " dim, vast kingdom
The vague notion she could give of that
scene OF immurement cannot be expected to
provo interesting to SO large q number as Mr.
Pickwick has caused to feel An interest in his
glimpses of the " Fleet Prison" onoe famous in
London. But such isterest as the former
house of detention commands is of q different
kind. and those who may experience it are a
different class. Plato Gas q great critic OBJ
serves) has been translated from age TO ape
into some dozen great modern languages, in
order that he might be read by about q score Of
persons in each generation. But that score
are the little fountains Of the large rivers that
bear to the sea the business Of the world. Few
are directly taught by Kant, Sir William
Hamilton, John Stuart MILL Cousin or Bal !
meg; but the millions are taught and think
through those whom they have taught to think.
Between the good and evil originators OF con. |
servators Of ideas, and the huge masses who do |
all their mental processes at third hand, stand
the interpreters and these listen with bent
heads, while they hold trumpets which are
heard at the extremities of the earth
Paulus fingered in Jerusalem. Weeks flew
by. Spring passed into summer; summer WAS
passing into autumn and still, from time to
time, as in the evenings, mother and con sat
among the flowers the fiat roof Esther
would join them.
One night, she had hardly appeared, when
Longinus the centurion followed her, bearing
letter for Paulus, which, he said, had lust
arrived at Fort Antonio, by the hands of an
orderly, from the governor. The letter was
from Dionysius of Athens, now lun des ouarante.
nom Der Of that great Areopagus of which the
French Academy is partly modern image
and it was written Immediately after his re-
turn from tour in Egypt, and q cruise
through the Agean Sea, among the famous
and beautiful Greek Islands, to resume his
1uties as teacher of philosophy and q pro-
lessor of the higher literature at Athens.
Paulus, after word with his mother and
Esther, desired Longinus to favor them with
his company. Sherbets and other refreshments
were brought. They all sat down on the
wicker settle at the corner of the
roof, under the bower-like branches of the
arge rhododendron; a small lamp was held for
sulus by the Jewish serving man, and Paulus
read the letter aloud to that sympathetio
group. Extracts we will give, in the substance.
concerning two occurrences. The first, as the
reader sees, the listening circle learned from
Oionysius; but have it in reality from
upon whose narrative Eusebius and
many other wei ehty au critics and prave his
orians have commented.
The captain and owner (for he was both) of
he vessel in which Dion sailed back from
Egypt to Athens was an Egyptian of the name
n Thramnus (some call him Thamus). He
and that very weird thing had happened to
lin in his Immediately previous trip, which
lad been from Greece to Italy. Dion was at
he time at Heliopolis, in Egypt, with his
riend, the celebrated philosopher Apollo.
'hanes who, though (like Dion himselD only
between twenty and thirty, had already lin
his also resembling Dion) obtained an almost
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