Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-01

! the bereft households: tell it among the
| graves. And here around him gather the
/ deaf and the dumb and the sick, and al his
word they turn on their couches, and blush
from awful pallor of helpless illness to
| rubicund health. and the swollen foot of the
| dropsical sufferer becomes fleet as d roe on
| the mountains. The music of the grove
| and household wakens the deaf ear, and
| lunatic and maniac return into bright in
| telligence, and the leper's breath becomes
as sweet as the breath of child, and the
| flesh as roseate. Tell it to all the sick,
! through all the homes, through all the
| hospitals. Tell it at l2 O'Clock at night; tell
! it at O'Clock in the morning; tell it at half
| past j. and in the last watch OF the night
| that
JESUS WALKS THE TEMPEST
Still we follow our Chieftain until the
| government that gave him no protection,
| insists that he pay tax and too poor to raise
| the requisite S215, he orders Peter TO catch
| fish that has in its mouth a Roman state,
which is bright coin land you know that
! fish naturally bite al anything bright, but
| il was miracle that Peter should have
| caught ii al the first haul.
Now we follow our Cheftain until for the
| paltry sum Of SID Judas sells him TO his
pursuers. Tel it to all the betrayed Ii
for $4,000 or for $500 or for 800 your in
tcrests were sold out. consider for how
much cheaper a sum the Lord of earth and
Et'sis t.l WIS 10 anu
death. But here while following him on
spring night between 4 and II o'clock. we
see the tldsh of torches and lanterns and we
hear the cry of a mob of nihilists. They
are nreakin" in on the quictude of Geth-
scmane with Clubs--lilc mob with sticks
chasing Il mad dog. 1t is d herd OF Jerusa-
lem ''rOughs" led on by Judas to arrest
Christ and punish him for being the love
lest and best being that ever lived. But
rioters are liable "a assail the wrong man
How were they to be sure which one was
Jesus! Il will kiss him. says Judas, land
by that signal you will know on know to
lay your hands of arrest" SO the kiss
which throughout the human race
and for ali time God intend
ed as the most sacred demonstration Of af-
lection. for Paul writes TO the Romans and
the Corinthians and the TheSsalOnians con-
corning the "holy kiss" and Peter cele-
brates the kiss Of charity, and with that
conjunction OF lips Laban met Jacob, and
Joseph met his brethren, and Aaron met
Moses and Samuel met Saul and Jonathan
met David and Orpah parted from Naomi
and Paul separated from mis- friends at
f.pheSus and the father III the parable
greeted the returning prodigal. and when
the millennium shall come we are told right
couSuesS and peace VIII Kiss each other, and
all the world IS invited 10 greet Christ as
inspiration cries out kiss the Son, lest he
be angry and We perish from the way
that most sacred demonstration of reunion
and affection was desccratcd as the filthy
lips Of Judas touched the pure cheek of
Christ, and the horrid smack Of that kiss
has It's echo IN the treaChery and the de-
basement and
HYPOCRISY OF ALI. AGES.
As in December. 1850. | walked on the
way from Bethany. and at the foot OF
Mount olyet. Il MALT mile from the wall of
Jerusalem. through the garden OF Geth-
Semanr and under the eight venerable
olive trees now standing. their genealogical
ancestors having been witnesses of the oc-
curreuces spoken Of the scene Of horror
and of crime came back to me, until /
shaddercd with the historical reminiS-
crncc.
In further following our great Chieftain's
march through the centuries, find myself
in a crowd in front Of Herod's palace in Je-
ruSalem, and on Il movable platform placed
upon tasselated pavement, Poutius PLATE
sits. Aud Us once Il year condemned
criminal is pardOned, PLATE lets the people
choose whether it shall be an assassin or
our (:hieftain. and they all Cry out for the
liberation of the assassin, thus declaring
they prefer murderer to the salvation of
the world.
PLATE took u basin of water in front of
these people and tried 10 wash of the blood
of this murder from his hands. but he
could not. They are still lifted. and | see
them looming up through all the ages,
eight fingers ana two thumbs standing out
re-! with the carnage.
Still following our Chicftain. | assembled
the hill which Gen, Gordon, the great Eng
liSh explorer ana arbiIer first made a clay
model Of. Il is hard elm bing for our chief
tain, for he has not only two heavy timOerS
TO carry on his back, the upright and hori-
zOntal pieces of the cross. but he is suffer-
ing from exhaustion caused by lack of food
/
with eim-wood rods and years of maltreat-
ment.
1t took our party in 1859 only fifteen min
utes TO climb 10 the top OF the hill and reach
that limestone rock in yonder wall, which |
rolled down from the apex Of Mount Cal
varg. But think our Chieftain must have
taken a long time for the ascent, for he had
all earth and all heaven
AND ALL HELL on MS BACK,
as he climbed from pase 10 summit, and
there endured what William CowDer, and |
John Milton, and Charles Wesley, and |
Isaac Watts. and James Montgomery, and |
all the other sacred poets have attempted |
10 put in verse; and Angelo, and Raphael, |
and Titan. and Leonardo da Ninci, and al |
the gred, Italian, and German, and Span |
iSh. and French artists have attempted to |
paint: and BOsSuet. and MdssillOn, and |
George Whitetield, and Thomas Chalmers |
lis overwhelming awfulneSS you may esti- |
mate from the fact that the sun which |
shines in the heavens, could not endure it; |
the sun which unfiinchiugly looked upon |
the delu"e that drowned the world. which |
without blinking looked upon the ruins of |
earthquakes which swallowed Lisbon and |
Caracas. and has looked unblanchel. on the |
batte-tields of Arbela, Blenhem, Me-iddo |
and E,Sdraelon, and all the scenes of car |
mage that have ever scalded and drenched |
the earth with human gore-that sun could |
not look upon the scene The sun dropped |
over its face Il veil of cloud 1t withdrew. |
1t hid itself. II said to the II idni@ht. II |
resign To thee this spectacle upon which | |
have no strength TO gaze; thou art blind, |
oh Midnight! and for that reason l commit !
TO thee this tragedy" Then the night |
hawk and The bat flew by, and the jackal |
howed in the ravines.
Now we follow our Chieftain as they |
carry his limp ana lacerated form amid the
flowers and trees of Il gardens, the gladio- |
luses, the OleandcrS, the lilies, the gera-
NUNS, the mandrakeS, down five or six |
steps
ToAN AISLE OF GRANITE.
where he sleeps. But only little while
he sleeps there. for there is an earthquake
in all that region, leaving the rocks to this |
day in their aSlant and ruptured state, de-
clarative of the fact that something extra
ordinary there happened. And we see our
Chieftain arouse from his brief s!umber
ana wreStle down the rutfiau Death, who
would keep HIM imprisoned in that cavern
and put both heels on the monster. and
coming forth with a cry that VIII not cease
10 be echoed until on the great resurrec-
ton day the door of the lost sepulcher shall