Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-12-20

n1Sn authority. Inc ponce court mas Issuel
papers for His arrest, for this thing must be
stopped, as the very government is
imperiled. News comes that last
night this stranger arrived at a suburban
village and that He is stopping at the house
OF man whom He had restiscitated after
four days sepulture. Well, the people rush
out into the streets, some with the idea of
helping in the arrest of this stranger when
He arrives, and others expecting that on the
morrow He will come into the town and by
some supernatural force oust the mlS.
nicipal and royal authorities and take
everything in His own hands. They
pour out of the city gates until the
procession reaches to the village. They
come all around about the house
where the stranger is stopping, and
peer into the doors and windows that they
may get one glimpse of Him or hear the hum
of His voice, The police dare not make the
arrest, because He has somehow won the af-
fections of all the people Oh, it is lively
night in yonder Bethany! The heretofore
quiet village is filed with uproar and outcry,
and loud discussion about the strange acting
countryman. do not think there was any
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stranger was stopping. Although He came
III weary lie finds no rest. though for
once in His lifetime He had pillow.
But the morning dawns, ths olive gar.
dens wave in the light, and all
along yonder road, reaching over the top of
Ohvet toward this city, there is a vast sway.
ing crowd of wondering people. The excite.
ment around thu door of the cottage is wild
as the stranger steps out beside an unbroken
colt that had never been mounted, and after
His friends had strswn their garments on the
bsastfor saddle the Savior mounts it, and
the populace, excited and shouting and fever
ish, push on back toward this city of JefuSa-
lem, Let tnone jeer now or scoff at this rider,
or the populacs will trample him un.
der loot i'll an instant There is one
long shout of two miles, and as far as
the eye can reach You see wavings of demon
strations and approval. There was some
thing in the riders visage, something in His
majestic brow, something in His princely be-
havior that stirs up the enthusiasm of the
people They run up against the beast and
try to pull the rider Off into their arms and
carry on thee shoulders the illustrious
stranger. The populace are so excited that
they hardly know what to do With them
selves and some rush up TO the roadside trees
and wrench off branches and throw them in
His way, and others doff their gar
ments, what though they be new
and costly, and spread them for a car
pet for the conquerer to ride over. "Hosan-
ma y cry the people at the foot of the hill.
"Hosanna" cry the people all up and down
the mountain. The procession has now come
to the brow of yonder 0livet. Magnificent
prospect reaching out in every direction
vineyards, olive groves jutting rock, silvery
Sloan, and above all rising ON its throne of
hills, this most highly honored city of all the
earth, Jerusalem. Christ there, in the midst
of the procession, looks off and sees here for
tressed gates, and yonder the circling wall,
and here the towers blazing in the sun, Phas-
aelus and Marianne Yonder is Hippicus the
Kings castle. Looking along i'll the range
of the larger branch of that olive tree, you
see the mansions of the merchant princes.
Through this cleft in the limestone rock you
see the palace of the richest trafficker in all
the earth. He has made his money by sell
ing Tyrian purple Behold now the temple
Clouds of smoke lifting from the simmer.
ing root, while the building rises up beautiful,
grand, majestic, the architectural skill and
glory of the earth lifting themselves there in
one triumphant doxology, the frozen prayer
of all nations,
The crowd looked around to see exhilara-
ton and transport in the face of Christ. Oh,
mol Out from amid the gates, and the
domeS, and the palaces there arose vision
of this city's sin, and of this city's doom,
which obliterated the landscape from horizon
to horizon, and He burst into tears crying:
20 Jerusalem, Jerusalemp But that was
the only day of pomp that Jesus saw in and
around this city. Yet He walked the streets
of this city the loveliest and most majestic
being that the world ever saw or ever will
see Publius Lentilus, in letter to the
Roman Senate, describes Him as "a
man Of stature somewhat tall, his hair the
color of chestnut fully ripe, plain to the
ears, whence downward it is more orient,
curling and waving about the shoulders; in
the midst of His forehead Is a stream, or par
tition Of His hair; forehead plain, and very
delicate, His face without spot or wrinkle
lovely red; His nose and mouth so forked as
nothing can be represented; His beard thick,
in color like His hair--not very long; His eyes
gray quick and clear He must die The
French army in Italy found brass plate on
which was copy of His death warrant,
signed by John Zerubbabel, Raphael Robani,
| Daniel Robsni and Capet.
Sometimes men on t. 6 way to the scaffold
have been rescued by the mob No such at
| tempt was made in this case, for the mob
were against Him. From nine i'll the morn
! ing till three in the afternoon Jesus hung
a-dying in the outskirts of this city. 1t was
a scene of blood. We are so constituted that
nothing is so exciting as blood. 1t is not the
! child's cry in the street that so arouses you
as the crimson dripping from its lip. In the
dark hail. seeing the finger marks Of
blood OH the plastering, you cry:
| what terrible deed has been done hereP
| Looking upon this suspended victim OF the
cross, we thrill with the sight of blood
blood dripping from thorn and nail blood
rushing upon His cheek blood saturating His
garments, blood gathered in pool beneath.
! 1t is called an honor to have in ones veins
the blood of the house of Stuars, or of the
house Of Hapsburg Is it nothing when
point you to the outpouring blood of thu
| King of the universes
In England the ameof Henry was so great
| thatit honors were divided among different
reiens IL was Henry the First and Henry