St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-17

| or the dramatic event tnat ciOSeu The
| life of Christ; to give some estimate of
His life and the power of His teaching
on the life of the world, and leading up
to this. few preliminary views, to
, make the climax more clear and show
the reasons for it. The justification
of the method is in the fact that in this
way we get another mans point of view.
reconstruct his thoughts and live in his
life, and so approach the conclusion,
not by the path that
Our Own Experience
has marked out, but by an entirely new
way: and the new point of view always
adds to our interest"
This is the estimate placed on Poutius
| Plate:
"Pilate was an ordinary man. He was
ordinary in appearance, with his plain
face, smoothly Shaven, that indicated
| only person blessed with good nerve,
good appetite, good digestion and a
muscular system that never failed to do
| his bidding; he could ride far, do with
out sleep, eat at the table with the most
successful, and was ever alert. keen and
active. He was ordinary in his thoughts,
hopes and aspirations, for it never oc-
Cured to him that there was anything
in the movements of which his life
formed all important part than the mere
outruSh of fanatlcism in another Zealot,
who would only meet with the fate of
Judas the Galileean. He was so Or
binary that in the ten years or more he
served as procu ratOr of this territory he
would never have been known had not
events
His
with Immortality. | have seen picture
| of great emperor pausing in the tri-
umphal procession, his body covered
with gold-bordered mantle. head
crowned with laurel, his gilded chariot
drawn by pair OF the most handsome
horses; and in that picture the slave
holding the horses was plainly drawn,
and as long as the fame of the emperor
makes that picture a mark of interest
men will also see plainly the face of the
slave holding the horses. So. as long
as men remember the Nazarene,
and the tragic death that crowned his
| life, by the very condition of seeing
| him they will see the face and hear the
! name of PLATE, otherwise the name of
| this man would have persisted from the
| earth. as it did from the Roman records
few years after his DEATH"
said: Mastery seems to be the proper
word to characterize the NaZarene, but
| it was the
Mastery of Soul
over soul. There is something in this
word that escapes definition, but is in
Stinctively understood. Mastery l saw
when at Ephesus their gladiator met
| the fierce lion, and by a command of
bincaIf oOd q clyilIful uco of bic xuaapon
| struck the animal dead on the sands.
| Mastery | saw when the charioteer in
the Circus MaXimus at Rome appeared
| in his place, his perfect control of HIM
| self giving him perfect control of his
| four stamping horses, reServing the
| power of his steeds in the beginning,
| gradually giving them speed, and eX-
pending all their energy as they swept
down the last time with the swiftneSS
| of eagles, leading all others. Mastery
| was in the great orator who came into
| the forum and won the hearts of the
people to his cause. SO mastery was in
this man. In the influence you felt as
soon as you heard his voice. so rich and
| persuasive that it seemed like the voice
Of pathetic song. calling out in you a
response; in the tall, shapely form with
| its
| CTOWn Oh AuOuTn
hair, its forked beard, clear face and
| blue eyes, that combined in personality
one could not forget; in that nameless
{ power he had of making you feel that in
| You were possibilities never known be-
fore, for his revelation was not more a
| revelation of what he was than reve-
lation of what you were, and he filled
| one with tumult of thoughts, hopes
| and longingS, suggestive of life of God
| in you that had been hidden and COW
cred through all your years; feelings of
| humanity and tenderness never felt be-
fore.
| 1t was not in what he did nor what he
| said, but in what he was. There are
men who impress you with their knowl-
! edge and mastery. You instinctively
| feel the power of an Alexander or a
| Cicero, and so in him was the power
that made man storm-tossed by trou-
| bic feel that the waves had already sub
sided. and that he had already reached
| the smiling land; that made the weary
| feel that already
Their Desert Journey
| was at an end, and the grove, rich in
| fruits, melodious with bird songs, and
watered by the never-failing fountain,
was in sight. When he talked of God,
| you felt God in your own soul. When
| he spoke of a future world, already you
seemed to touch it's shores, and you
| could almost hear the voices of those
| with righteousness more becoming than
sandals of silver, if you will allow me
| the phrases of His own nation, and
| richer than the crown of gold and dia-
| monds was the crown of honor he wore,
while he was enwrapped in human love
| as in mantle. No wonder the Cali
leean always said, In Hin was life, and
the life was the light of men, But ]
write this after years; | did not under.
stand it at the time as l do now"
The following paragraphs apply to
the trial and crucifXion of Christ:
compromise is the word that ex.
| presses the
Mental Condition
of Plate. Compromise was suggested
by former experience with these peo
pie, for he remembered the time, when
placing the Roman standards in the
temple, he was surrounded by a moi
that never let him rest until they were
removed; remembered the day when he
disguised his soldiers in citizens
clothes and in popular tumult had
their daggerS drawn and many cut
down; remembered the time when
rushing upon these people unawares, in
the precincts of the temple itself, he
mingled their blood with their sacri
fees, and how in all these cases he only
fought to lose. And now he determined
to move cautiously. So compromise
was in his attempt TO send Jesus to the
under officer Herod, who placed the
white robe worn by the Roman candi
date for office upon the shoulders OF
Christ and returned him to the Judgment