The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-04-01

Heaven and hell, zenith and nadir of the
| spiritual universe, are repr secuted in an
ethical elias .iicatiOn of forms and forces
whose sci ntitjo compile teness Is hidden
under the absardit es CT animalism,
| from which he IAN 10 more be detached
than he can Jump off his shadow"
the contrast between the sensual and
the ideal self was jnexplicab!e by any
Datural hypothesis. Though priiniti, g
philosophy had held that the same tree
bore good and evil, religious sem iment
Interpreted that as meant, g the knowl-
edge OF good and evil these being sep
arated into the Twinf, white aud darK,
the notion of Incarna,e fends. Incar-
nation is no mystery. By purposed
selection man breeds in q bull dog an
exaltation of ferociIy only ideal in him.
self; that thoroughbred brute will bate
without motive. aud can not be drawn
from the improvised fue by torture; hs
will often die rather than let go, u
martyr of self-sacriicing ferUcity.
This Great on by man ola evil genius
| on SHE the normal self p 'e.erving
inst net is paralleled in surVivals of
brute craft, cruelty. and lust ia the
human shape, Their, by invested with a
retioed apparatus for evil unknown 10
any animal. This evolved inhumanlty,
personIned as the Adversary of God,
has In eYerv age been ssen IN evil in
oarna' ions confronting the incarnation
ofGod. Thus sids by side appear L. u J
and Judas. In the apocI yphal
Gospel OF the Infancy" it is related
that dsInoniacal boy, brought to the
child Jesus, strikes him, whereupon
Jesus Weeps, and Satan comes out OF
tie boy IN the form of furious dog.
Th s boy was Judas. According to
another legend, Judas's mother had q
dream before his birth that her son
would muroer his father and sell hts
God. To avert this he child was sunk
In the sea, but was cast on shore. He
was adopted by king and queen, who
had son, whom Judas slew. He fed
to Judea. became the page of Plate,
and, after the predestined murder of his
father, learns d from his mother her
dream. In terror and contrition Judas
hears OF prophet who forgIves sins;
when he throws himself at his feet,
Jesus, ecoguiz'ng his predest1ned
eetrayer. accepts him as a disciple,
and intrusts him with the purse so that
Judas avarice might be excited and the
y
became heir apparent to the internal
throne, and in mural pictures of eastern
churches he appears seated on the
knees of majestic Satan. But il
Western Christendom the idea long
prevailed that Jesus was moving ia
visit ~ about the world. keeping his eye
on every movement OF mankind until
the day when He shou d Judge them.
Judas appears to have been resuscitated
In some regions for counter-Wander-
ing, but the exigencies of Roman
Christianity demanded less localized
and less penltent devil. Thus Judas
was superseded by An'i-christ, and
his story became threaded on the con-
tinuous Inc of undying wanderers.
1t Is notable TACT that, while
there bave been historic doubt as to
the existence OF Jesue, few have ques-
toned that OF Judas, so pessimIst IL the
world Those who resolve Christ into
q solar myth might find much support
In the burials OF Judas as winter" in
some remote parts of Europe, and the
Good Friday scourgings of his etfigy in
Spanish countries. Although there is
N the case suge estion of an onOmato-
poetic myth. Judas, being the Greek
form OF JUDAH" possible personifi
cation of the Jewish race betraving
their Messiah to the Roman, yet in a
fragment OF the lost Aramaic Gospel
there Is mention of Judas the Iscariot."
This supplies strong probanl lty of the
existence of disc ! lie so called. But of
personally he seems lost in labvrinth
contradic ions. He is said, in the
fourth Gospel, to have been the first
fearer of Jesus and the Twelve, al to
haze taken money from IAe bag dis
Ouestly-statements unsupported by
the other Gospels. If Judas had such
good position for the exercise of
thievish industry, would he have
terminated it for $40? Mathew alone
mentions the amount Of the brine, with
suspicious exsctitude, one hardly suf-
fcient to purchase a cemetery for
STRANGERS. as others state. Matthew
and Mark say Judas kissed Jesus: Luke
says he approached for that purpose,
John says nothing about a kiss, but
represents Jesus as Fastening to sur
render himself to the soldiers, emong
whom was Judas. AS to the emo of
Judas, it Is variously stated that he
hanged himself; that he bought a field
and fell down dead in it; that he threw
down the money before those who had
bribed him. "-Moncure D. Conway,
in the North Am srican Review for March