The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-12-18
And lifted up our torches, and beheld
Against the blank white wall shadowy


cheek.
We, knowing it was Christus, forward
pressed.
Malchus was at my side, when suddenly
A sword flashed out from among them there
And sheared his ear. At once our sword
flashed out,
But Christus, lifting up His hand, said
Peace,
sheathe thy sword, Peter must drink ths
cup"
And cried also, "Peace, and sheathe youl
swords"
Then on His arm I placed my hand, ant
said,
'In the laws w name." He nothing said' 'u
His arms out, and we bound his hands will
cords.
This done, turned, but all the rest hat
fed,
And He alone was left to meet His fate.
Ny men ordered then to take and bear
Their prisoner to the city; and at once
They moved away. I, seeing not our guide
Cried, "Judas I"-but no answer; then 6
groan
So sad and deep it startled me. I turned,
And there, against the wall, with ghastly
face,
And eyeballs starting in frenzied glare,
AS in fit. lay Judas his weak arms
Hung lifeless down, his mouth half open
twitched,
His hands were clutched and clenched into
his robes,
And now and then his breast heaved with q
gasp.
Frightened, dashed some water in his face
Spoke to him, lifted him, and rubbed his
hands.
At last the sense came back into his eyes,
Then with sudden spasm fed again,
And to The ground he dropped. 1 searched
him o'er,
Fearing some mortal wound, yet none l
found.
Then, with gasp, again the life returned
And stayed, bat still with strong convulsion
twitched.
"Speak, Judas, speakw I cried. "What
does this mean?'
No answer. "Speak, man~ Then at last
he groaned:
$50, leave me! leave me- Lysias. o, my
God,
What have done? o, Christus Master,
Forgive me, oh, forgive me" Then cry
OF agony that pierced me to the heart,
AS, groveling on. the ground, he turned
away
And hid his face, and shuddered in his
robes.
Was this the man whose face an hour ago
Shone with q joy so strange? What means
it all?
Is this sudden madness? "speakp 1
cried
What means this, JudasF Be man and
speak r'
Yet there he lay, and neither moved nor
spoke.
thought that he had tainted, till at last
Sudden he turned, and grasped my arm and
cried,
"Say, Lysias, is this true, or am mad"
"What truem I said. :'True that you
seized the Lord
You could not seize Him-He is the God
the Lord
I thought saw you seize Him. Yet know
That was impossible, for He is God!
And yet you ive-you live. He spared
you, then.
Where am I? What has huppened' A
Came DER me when you laid your hands on
Him.
Where are they all2 Where is He? Lysias,
speak P'
After describing how Judas fell in a
fit and was carried away, and relating
how Peter denied his Lord, the Centu-
rion says:
That night saw not Judas. The next day
CHASTITY, clay white, shadow of man,
With robes all soiled and torn, and tangled
beard,
Into the chamber where the council sat
Came feebly staggering; scarce should I
have known
Twas Judas, with that haggard, blasted
face;
So had the nights great horror altered him.
AS one all blindly walking in dream
He to the table came-against it leaned
Glared wildly round awhile-then stretch
ing forth
From his torn robes trembling hand flung
down,
AS il q snake had stung him, small purse,
That broke and scattered its small white
coins about,
And, with shrill voice, cried, "Take back
the purse
Twas not for that fond dross I did the deed
Twas not for that-oh, horror! not for
that
But that did believe He was the Lord;
And that He is the Lord I still believe
But oh! the sin ! the sin have betrayed
The innocent blood, and I am lost! am
lost!
So crying. round his face his robes he threw,
And blindly rushed away; and we. aghast,
Looked round-and no one for moment
spoke"
Then comes startling picture of the
finding of the body of Judas hanging in
q tree, and the story of the old Centurion
gives place to the reflections of the Ro-
man lawyer, who, comparing the ac-
counts of "John and Peter and the rest" 4"
reaches the conclusion that Judas y
Was rash and visionary man,
Whose faith was firm, who had no thought
of crime,
But whom terrible mistake drove mad.
Accepting the views of John and
James, the lawyer is troubled, but taking
the view that Lysias takes,
All is at once consistent, clear, complete.
Firm in the faith that Christus was his God,
The great Messiah sent TO save the world,
He seeking for sign-not for himself,
But to show proof to all that He was God
Conceived this plan, rash if you will, but
grand.
thinking Him man." he said, "mere NOR
tai man,
They seek to seise Him. will make pre-
tense
To take the public bribe and point Him out,
And they shall go, all armed with swords
and slaves,
Strong with the power of law, to seize on
Him,
And at their touch He, God Himself, shall
stand
Revealed before them, and their swords
shall drop,
And PROSTATE all before Him shall adore,
And cry. Behold the Lord and King of
alp
But when the soldiers laid their hands on
Him,
And bound Him as they would prisoner
vile,
With taunts, and mockery, and threats OF
death
He all the while esubmitting-then his dream