Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1882-01-26


We visis the pool Of Bethesda. re
i f6lT Of benevolsns, nay, angelic
memories. for did not the angel here
70 down ct q certain sesson and frou
de the water. 90 that those who were
diseased and waited along its FIVE
porehes for the moving Of the waeer
should be made whole ? Did not the
sick man here receive from the Savior
his cure, for which he wac renf0ached
il being the sabbath day Z Now, h6@
changedg There is no water in.the
pool. save little green pond In che
rcrner. As we enter II ths aif Il dusty
and full Of the cries % Bows and smens
driving donkeys within. 1ealsd with
The refuse 81 he city, andfWhoss bassl
kes panniers afs flill sc dirt "a Be-
81 pIs3Ii here. 81 = Is 4 : rom 80 sne'
for buildings But 10 our mind Il !.
now. As ever, blessed with che sweet
waters Of healing. An English engi-'
neer offered 90 the government TO
clean il ont. connect ID with les oldeni
sluices and ill il with pure water
The proposal was rejected. The ten
der shows that these sacred memories
are not all dead, nor is the land alto
gather left desolute. IL Is said that
one of the chief agonies of the Savior
was that asall forsook Him and ieA.@'
So thev did. and it was the bitterest
drop IN His cup of misery; but now.
after two thousand years, His name 10
in the household of hundreds of mil
lions of the racel Out Of this desc
lation, sacrifice and crucifixion, there
is ascension for thesgmfffions, as there
was for Him. Who can describe the
healing and consolation which ema-
mated from these scenes of suffering
and salvation? Now, as then, there
is the same deep meaning in the beau
tiiui verse; ~! s. ID. - 3o
Sad one. in secret benaing lev, "a
A dart in thy breast thai the word may no.
wresaling, The favor OF Gsd 10 via ~ eve
His seal Of pardon Tor days Of sin; =,
Press on, press on with thy psaverfal cry.
jesus Of Nazareth passsih by.'" COTS.
If the streams, woods, grottoes,
hills and mountains of Greece were
peopled by imagination. with naiad
and nymph, dryad and God, illustra-
ting the aspiration of our nature after
the spiritual beauty with which We are
surrounded, and if these .mythie
hannts still allure us to arid, dead
Greece by the destinations of fancy,
how much moro entrancisg TIE caves.
pools. groves, mountains and rocks
about Jerusalem, which are instinct
with that wondrous benevolenee which
lived to bless and died to save. There
may be no romance in the dry and
dead scenery here; Jerusalem, Naza-
reth and Bethlehem may not be cities
of palaces, like Vienna or Paris; they
may have no flowing Propontis or
Neva, like Constantinople or st. Pc
tersburg; but here there is q history.
illnnined like . sacred missal, and
ciasped in the everlasting rocks, for
the vindicaticn Of which kings aud
crusaders have fought, and good men
like James, Peter and Paul have died,
and Chrysostom and Jerome have
tasted, studied and prayed. There j.
vet to be q better epic Of "Jeruselein
Observation-Disclosures, not from Sa-
racen or Turk, but delivered from the
grossness which envelopes it, 50 that
its high estate on earth may CORES
pond with the glery of its spiritual
effiuencss. Il ongressmaN s s. Cor.