Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-10-03


choose Whether it sllaIl he M assassin
or our Chieftain. and they all cry out
for the liberation of the assassin. thus
declaring they prefer murderer to the
salvation OF the world PLATE took o
basin of water in front of these people
and tried to wash off tile blood of this
murder from his hands, but he could
not. They are still lifted, and Il see
them looming up through all the ages,
eight fingers and two thumbs standing
out red with the carnage.
TIIE AGONY ON CALVARY.
Still following our Chieftain ascend
tile hill. which General Gordon. the
! great l.nglisl, explorer and arbiter first
nndcn clay model Of lis hard climb
ing for our Chieftain. for lie las nor
only two heavy tilbers to carry ON Ills
back. tlie upright and horizontal pieces
of the cross. but lie is suffering, from ex.
llauston caused by lack Of luod lnoin-
tain clllls. desert heats. whipping with
/ eliuwood rods and years Of inaS;e;it-
.inent.
! 1t took our party. in 1880. only fifteen
minutes to climb to the top Of the hill
! and reach that limestone rock iris yoll:;;
lEss1egNiSJ
But think
I ourC liieftain tii;ivet r;lkenga long
! time for tile ascent. for bel had all earth
and all heaven and all hell on lis back
rs he climbed from base TO summit.
and there endured what William Cow
per and JOHN Milton and Charles Yves
ley and Isaac Watts and James Mont
goinery and all the other sacred poets
have attempted to put in verse; and
Angelo and Raphael and Titan and
Leonardo da Vinci ard all the great
Italian and German aud Spanish and
French artists have attempted to paint;
and Bossuct and Mir:sIlou and George
Whitelpld aud Thomas Chalmers have
attempted to preach.
Something Of its overwhelming aw-
fitness yon may estimate from the fact
thai the sn:l which shines in the lie;lv-
ems could not endure ii: tie sun
which untliucllingly looked upon the
delugr that drowned the world, which.
without Linking, looked upon the rli.is
of earthquakes which swallowed Lisbon
and Caracas. and has looked unblancli-
ed OH the battleilelds of Arbcla, Blen-
helm. Mcsiddo and Esdraelon. and all
the scenes OF carnage that have ever
scalded and drencled the eartll with
human gorc-that sun could not look
upon tlic scene The sun dropped over
it's face veil of cloud. 1t withdrew.
1t hid itself. IL said to the midnight,
II resign TO thee this spectacle upon
Which lave no strength to gaze; thou
art blind. OH, midnight and for that
reason commit to thee this tragedyT
Then the night hawk and the bat flew
by. and the jackal howled in the
ravines
Now we follow our Chieftain as they
carry his limp and lacerlted form amid
the flowers and trees Of a garden, the
gladioluscs, the oleanders. the lilies, the
.geraniuins. tile niandrakes. down five
or six steps to an aisle of grlnite Where
lie sleeps. But only Il little while he
sleeps there, for there is an earthquake
in all that region. leaving the rocks to
this, day il tlieir aslant and ruptured
state decsarltive of the fact that some
thing extraordinary there happened.
--zrTIu We See-OdT y5iIirruurrI- prs-----------
his brief sluIuber and wrestle down the
rutfian Death who would keep him i'm
prisoncd in that cavern and pat both
heels on the monster. and coming forth
with n cry that will not cease TO be
echoed until OF the great resurrection
day the door Of the lost sepulciler shall
be unhinged and flung changing into
the debris of demolished cemeteries.
Now we follow our Cllieftain to the
shoulder of Mount Olivet. and without
wings lie rises. the disciples clutching
for his robes too late to reach tllon,. and
across the great CULTS of space with one
bound he gains that world which for
thirty-tllree years had been denied his
companonsllip, and all heaven lifted a
shout of welcome as lie entered, and Of
coronation as up to the mediatorial
throne lie Mounted. 1t was the great
est day heaven had ever seen. They
had him back again FROM. tears, from
wounds, from ills, from :: world that
never appreciated hin to world in
Which he was the cllicf delight. In all
the libRetto Of celestial music it was
hard to find an anthem enough conjubi
liant to celebrate the JOY sanity seraphic,
archangclic. deific.
But still we follow our Chieftain in
his march through the centuries, for
invisibly lie still walks the earth, and
by the eye of faith we still follow him.
You caa tell where he walks by the
churches and hospitals and reforlna'
tory institutions and houses of mercy
that spring up along tue way. hear
his tread in the sickroom and in the
abodes OF bereavement. lie marches
on and tire nations are gathering around
him. THE islands OF the sea are hearing
his voice The continents are feeling his
power. America will be his. Europe
will be his. Asia will be lis. Africa
will be his. Australia will be his. New
Zealand will be his. All the eartl, will
be llisl Do you realize that until now
it was impossible for the world to be
converted2 Not until very recently las
the world been found. The Bib. talks
about 1.-The ends of the eartll" and the
"utterlnost parts of the world as ber
ing saved, but not until now have, the
lends of the e;lrth" been discovered,
and not until now have the uttermost
parts of tile world" been revealed
The navigator did his work, the ex-
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