Connecticut western news., 1889-12-11

comes that last night this stranger arrived at a suburban village and that he Is stopping at the house of a man whom he had resusctated after four days sepulture. We'll, the people 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 municipal 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 Win- dows that they may get one glimpse of him dare not make the arrest, because he has somehow won the affections of all the people. Oh, 1t is lively night in wonder Bethany! The heretofore quiet village Is filled with up roar and outcry, and loud discussion about the strange acting countryman. 1 do not think there was any sleep in that house tn night where the stranger was stopping. AL though he came in weary he finds no rest, though for once in his lifetime he had pill low. But the morning dawns, the olive gar dens wave in the light, and all along yonder road, reaching over the top of Olivet toward this city, there is vast swaying crowd of wondering people.
 The excitement around the door of the cot tage Is wild as the stranger steps out beside an unbroken colt that has never been mount ed, and, after his friends have strewn their garments on the beast for saddle, the Saviour mounts it, and the populace, excited and shouting and feverish, push on back to- ward the city of Jerusalem. Let none jeer now or scotf at this rider, or the populace will trample him under foot in an instant. There is one long shout of two miles, and as far as the eye can reach you see wav1ngs Of demonstrations and approval. There was something in the riders visage, something in his majestic brow, something in his prineely behavior 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 their shoulders the illustrious stranger.
 The populace are SO excited that they hardly know what to do with themselves, and some rush up to the roadside trees and wrench of br anches and throw them in his way; and others doff their garments, what though they be new and costly, and spread them for carpet for the conqueror to ride over. .'Ho- sannav' 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 wonder Olivet. Magnificent prospect reaching out in every drection-vineyards, olive groves, jutting rock, silvery Siioam, 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 of and sees here fOrtressed gates, and yonder the circling wall, and here the towers blazing in the sun, Phasaelus and Marianne.
 Wonder is Hippicus, the Kings castle. Looking along ill the range of the larger branch of that olive tree, you see the man. sions 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 selling Tyrian pur- pie. Behold now the temple! Clouds of smoke lifting from the shimmering roof, while the building rises up beautiful, grand, majestic, the architectural skill and glory of the earth lifting themselves there in one tri- umphant doxology, the frozen prayer of all nations.
 EThe crowd looked around to see exhilara- tion and transport in the face of Christ. Oh, no! Out from amid the gates, and the domes, and the palaces there arose a 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: 60 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. Pubhus Lentilus. in letter to the Ro. man Senate, describes him as "a man of stature somewhat tall, his hair the color of Q chestnut fully ripe, plain to the ears, whence, downward it Is more orient, curling and waiving about the shoulders; in the midst of his forehead is 8 stream, or partition 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 hafr-not very long; his eyes gray, quick and clear"
 He must die. The French army in Italy found brass plate on which was a copy of his death warrant, signed by John Zerub- babel, Raphael Robani, Daniel Robani and Capet.
 Sometimes men on the way to the scaffold have been rescued by the mob. No such an attempt was made in this case, for the mob were against him. From9 in the morning till in the afternoon, Jesus hung adying in the outskirts of this city. It was scene of SO exciting as blood. It is not the child's cry in the street that so arouses you as the crim- son dripping from it's lip. In the dark hall. seeing the finger marks of blood on the pias- tering, you cry: "What terrible deed has been done herey" Looking upon this sus- pended 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. It is called an honor to have Stuart or of the house of Hapsburg. Is it nothing when point you to the outpouring blood of the king of the universe?
 In England the name of Henry was so
 great that its honOrs were divided among different reigns. It was Henry l., and Henry H., and Henry III.. and Henry w., and Henry V. In France the name of Louis was so favorably regarded that it was Louis l., Louis IT,, Louis III., and so on. But the king who walked these streets was Christ the First, Christ the Last, and Christ the Only. He reigned before the Czar mounted the throne of Russia, or the throne of Austria was lifted, ''king eternal, immortal" Through the indulgenees of the royal family the physical life degenerates, and some of the kings have been almost imbecile, and their bodies weak and their blood thin and watery but the crimson life that flowed upon Calvary had in it the health of immortal God. Tell 1t now to all the earth, and to all the heavens Jesus, our king, is sick with his last sickness. Let couriers carry the swift dispatch. His pains are worse; he is breath | ing last groan; through his body quivers l the last anguish; the king is dying; the king | is dead! It is royal blood. It is said that | some religionists make too mueh of the hu- manity of Christ. I respond that we make too little. If some Roman surgeon, standing | under the cross, had caught one drop of the
 blood on his hand and analysed it, it would l have been found to have the same plasma, l the same disk, the same flbrin, the same al-
 bumen. It was unmistakably human blood.
 It is 8 man that hangs there. His bones are
 of the same material as otlrs His nerves are | sensitive like ours.
 If it were an angel being despoiled would
 not feel it so much, for it belongs to a differ
 ent order of beings. But my Saviour is 8
 man, and my whole sympathy is aroused. l
 can imagine how the spikes felt-how hot
 the temples burned-what deathly sickness
 seized the heart-how mountain and city and
 mob swan away from his dying vision
 something of the meaning of that cry for
 help that makes the blood of all the ages cur
 dle with horror: My God! my God! why
 h ast thou forsaken meY'
 Forever with all these scenes of Saviour's
 suffering will this city bc associated. Here | his unjust trial and here his death. o Jeru- | salem, Jerusalem!
 But finally I am thrilled with the fact that
 this city is a symbol of heaven, which Is only
 another Jerusalem, 'sThe New Jerusalem"
 And this thought has kindled the imagination
 of all the sacred poets. am glad that Hora-
 tio Bonar, the Scotch hymnist, rummaged