The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-10-14

chillA desert heass, whipping with
elmwood rods and years Of maltreat.
ment.
! 1t took our party in 1889 only fifteen
minutes to climb to the top of the hill
and reach tina. limestone rock in yon-
der wall, which l rolled down from the
apex OF Mt Calvary. But think our
Chieftain must have taken a long time
for the ascent, for He had all earth ana
all Heaven and all hell on His back as
He climbed from the base to the sum
init, and there endured what William
Cowper and John Milton and Charles
Wesley and Isaac Watts and James
Montgomery and all the other sacred
poets have. attempted to put in verse;
and Angelo and Raphael and Titan and
Leonardo da Vinci and all the great
Italian and German and Spanish
and French artists have attempted
to paint; and Bossuet and Mas
sillon and George Whitefeld and
Thomas Chalmers, have attempted to
preach. Something of its overwhelm-
ing awfulness you may estimate from
the fact that the sun which shines in
the heavens could not endure it; the
sun which unfiinchingly looked upon
the deluge that drowned the world,
which without blinking looked upon
the ruins of earthquakes which swal.
lowed Lisbon and Caracas, and has
looked unblanched on the battle-felds
of Arbela, Blenheim, Megiddo and Es-
draelon, and all the scenes of carnage
that have ever scalded and drenched
the earth with human gore-that sun
could not look upon the scene.
The sun dropped over his face
a veil of cloud. 1t withdrew.
1t hid Itself 1t said to the mid
night: ~ resign to thee this spectacle
upon which l have no strength to gaze;
thou art blind, oh, Midnight and for
that reason / commit to thee this TRACE
dy!" Then the night-hawlz and the bat
flew by, and the jackall howled in the
ravines.
Now we follow our Chieftain as they
carry His limp and lacerated form amid
the flowers and trees of a garden, the
gladioluses, the oleanders, the lilies,
the geraniums, the mandrakes, down
five or six steps to an aisle of granite,
where he sleeps. But only a 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, declarative of the fac.
that something extraordinary there
happened. And we see our Chieftain
aroused from His brief slumber and
wrestle down the rufiian Death, who
would keep Him imprisoned in that
cavern, and put both heels on the mon
ster, and come forth with cry that
will not cease to be echoed until, on
the great resurrection day, the door OF
the last sepulcher shall be unhinged
and flung changing into the debris Of
demolished cemeteries.
Now we follow our Chieftain to the
shoulder of Mt Olivet, and without
wings He rises, the disciples clutching
for His robes too late to reach them
and across the great CULTS of space with
one bound He gains that world which
for thirty-three years had been denied
His companionship, and all Heaven
lifted shout of welcome as He entered
and of coronations rs upthe mediatoria
throne He mounted. 1t was the great
est day Heaven ever seen. They had
him back again from tears, from
wounds, from ills, from world thai
never appreciated Him, to world il
which He was the chief delight. In al
the libretto of celestial music, it was
hard to find an anthem enough con
jubilant to celebrate the JOY sanity
seraphic. archangelic, deific.
But still we followed our Chieftain il
His march through the centuries, fol-
invisibly He still walks the earth, ant
by the eye of faith we still follow Him
You can tell where he walks by the
churches and hospitals and reforma
tory institutions and houses of mercy
that spring along the way. hear His
tread in the sick room, and in the
abodes of bereavement. He marches
on, and nations are gathering around
Him. The islands of the sea arc
hearing his voice. The continent:
are feeling His power. America will
be His! Europe will be His! Asia viii
be His! Africa will be His! Austraiis
will be His, New Zealand will be His
All the earth will be His! Do you real
ize that until now it was impossible fol-
the world to be converted? Not unit
very recently has the world beer
found The Bible talks about ''tht
ends of the earth" and the ''uttermos
parts OF the world as being saved, bu
not until now have the lends of the
earth" been discovered, and not unit
now have the ''uttermost parts of the
world beenrevealed, The navigator die
his work, the scientist did his work, ant
now for the first time since the worlt
has been created has the world peer
known, measured off, and geograph
lied, the last hidden and unknown
tract has been mapped out, and now
the work of evangelization will be be
gun with an earnestness and velocity
as yet unimaged; the steamships are
ready; the lightning express trains are
ready: the printing-presses are ready
the telegraph and telephone are ready
millions of Christians are ready, ant
now see Christ marching on through
the centuries Marching on Marching
on!
One by one governments will fal
into line and constitutions and litera