The Penn's Grove record., 1891-10-09

70 Illumination n death. But nefet Wnhsf
following Him on q spring night betweel
sleven n twelve o'clock, we saw the nasf
Of torches and lanterns and we hear the cry
of a mob Of nihilists. They are breaking N
On the quietude Of Gethsernane with clnbs-
like a mob with sticks chasing a,mad dog.
1t is a herd of Jerusalem .roughs" led on
BY Judas to arrest Christ and punish Hin
Tor being the ~loveliest and best being thai
sver lived. But rioters are liableto aseat
which one was Jesus2 81 will kiss HIM .
ays Judas, . land by that signal you will
know on whom to lay your land OF ar
rest" So the kiss which throughout the
human race and for all time God inteDded
as the most sacred demonstration OF affoc
ton, for Paul writes to the Romans and
the Corinthians, and the Thessaloniana
concerning the '.holy hszn and Peter
celebrates the kiss Of charity, and with
that conjunction Of lips Laban met Jacob,
and Joseph met his brethren, and AAror
met Moses, and Samuel met Saul, and Jona'
than met David, and Orpah parted fron
Naomi, and Paul separated from his frisndi
At Ephesus, and the father IN "a
parable greeted the returning prodfgal
and when the millennium shall come
we are told Righteousness and peace will kin
zach other, and all tho world Is invited 70
Kiss Christ as inspiration cries out, "Ktsi
the Son, lest He be angry and 70 perish
from the wayn-that the most sacred demon
stration Of reunion and affection was desc.
the pure cheek of Christ and the hofrid
snack Of that kiss has itS ech0 In fhs tre6ch-
cry and debasement and hypocrisy OF ~
hges.
As in December, 1889, I walked on the way
trom Bethany, and ct the foot OF Mount
Olivet, q half mile from the wall OF Jerus-
alem, through the Garden Of Gethsemane
and under the eight venerable olive trees
pow standing. their genealogical ancestors
having been witnesses Of the occurrences
spoken of, the scene Of horror and OF crime
cams back to me, until ! shuddered with the
historical "Reminiscences
In further following our great Chieftain'a
march through the centuries, / find myself
in a crowd in front Of Herod's palace In
Jerusalem, and on a moveable platform
placed upon a tasselated pavement, Ponttus
PLATE sits. And as once a year q condemned
criminal is pardoned. Plate let's the peo-
assin or our Chieftian, and they all cry
,ut for the liberation Of the assassin,
shus declaring they prefer q murderer to the
salvation of the world. Plate took q basin
Of water in front of these people and tried
to wash off the blood Of this murder from
MS hands, but he could not. They are still
lifted, and l see them looming up through
AA tAo efS OAhhb AtAAo11 &AA&& w
standing out red with the carnage.
Still following our Chieftain, / ascend the
hill which General Gordon, the great Eng
ish explorer and arbiter, made a clay model
Of. 1t is hard climbing for u C~hieftain,
Tor He has not only two heavy timbers TO
larry on His back, the upright and horizon
tai pieces Of the cross, but He 10 suffering
from exhaustion caused by lack Of food,
mountain chills desert heats. whippings with
slmwood rods and years Of m~altreatment.
1t took our party In 1889 only fifteen
minutes to climb to the top Of the hill and
reach that limestone rock in yonder wall,
which I rolled down from the apsx Of Mount
Calvary. But I think our Chi-atan must
have taken q long time for the ascent for
de had all earth and all heaven and al hell
on His back as He climbed from base to
summit and there endured what William
lCowper and John Milton and Charles
| W esiey and Isaac Watts and James Mont
yomery and all the other sacrei poete hays
attempted to put In verse and Angelo and
Raphael and Titan and Leonardo d. Vtnci
| and all the great Italian and German and
| Spanish and French artists have attempted
TO paint, and Bossuet and Masillon and
| George Whitefeld and Thomas Chalmers
have attempted to preach.
Something Of its overwhelming awful
| ness you may estimate from the fact that
the sun which shines In the heavens could
| not endure ii; the sun which unfinchingly
looked upon the deluge that drowned the
| world, which without blinking looked upon
The ruins of earthquakes which swallowed
| Lisbon and Caracas, and has looked un-
| olanched on the battlefelds Of Arbela, Blen-
helm. Megiddo and Esdraelon, 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 its face q veil Of cloud. It
withdrew. 1t hid itself. It said 70 the mid
night, 81 resign to thee this spectacle upon
which l have no strength to gaze; thou art
blind, o midnight and for that reason com.
NIT TO thee this tragedyP' Then the night
hawk and the bat few by, and the jackal
howled in the ravines.
Now we follow our Chieftain a. they
carry His limp and lacerated form amid the
the oleanders, the lilies, the geraniumS, the
mandrakes, down five or six steps TO an aisle
Of granite. where He sleeps But only a
title while He sleeps there, for there 10 an
earthquake in all that region, leaving the
rocks to this day In their ashanti and rup-
tured state declarative Of the fact that
something extraordinary there happened.
from His brief slumber and wrestle down
he rufian Death, who would keep Him Inn
orisoned in that cavern, and put both heels
IN the monster, aud coming forth with a
NV that will not cease to be echoed until on
the great resurrection day the door Of the
Iost sepulcher shall be unhtnged and flung
,langing into the debris of demolished ceme
beries.
Now we follow our Chieftain to the
,houider Of Mount Olivet and without
wings He rises, the disciples clutching for His
robes too late to reach them, and across the
treat CULTS of space with one bound He gains
that world which for thirty-frree year, ~
been denied His companionship, Ind all
heaven lifted a shout of welcome
" he entered, n OF coronation as
no the mediatoriai throne He mounted.
[t was the greatest day heaven
had ever seen. They had Him back again
from tears, from wounds, from Ills, from a
World that never appreciated Him To- world
n which He was the chief delight. In all the
ihretto of celestial music 1t was hard to find
an anthem enough ~conjubilant to celebrate
The joy sanity, seraphic. arch-augelic,
isiic.
march through the centuries, for invisibly
He still walks the earth, and by the eye Of
iaith we still follow Him. You can tell
where He walks by the churches, and hos
uitals and reformatory institutions and
houses of mercy that spring up along the
raw. hear His tread in the sick room and
a the abodes of bereavement He marches
an and inc dltOA " u
,round Him. The islands OF the sea are
Wearing His voice. The continents are feel
no His mower. America will be Hisi Europe
vii he Hist Asia will be Hisi Africa will be
Hist Australia will be Hist New Zealand will
he Hist All the earth will be Hist Do you real.
n that until now it was impossible for the
rorld to be converteds Not until very re
,ently has the world been found.
The Bible talks about the ends Of tbs
,srthn and the s'uttermost parts OF the
Uorld. AZ being saved. but not until now
| have the s'ends of the earth been dis
covered, and not until now have the
suttermost parts of the world. been re-
yealed. The navigator did his work, tbs
explorer did his work, the scientist did
his work, and now for the first time ince
the world has been created has the world
been knovn, measured OF and geogra-
phized, the lost hidden n unknown
tract has been mapped out and now ths
work Of evangelization will be begun with
an earnestness and velocity as yet unim-
! imagined. The steamships are ready; the
lightning express trains are ready; tho print
ing presses are ready, the telegraph and
telephone are ready, millions OF Christians
are ready and now see Christ marching ON
through the centuries. Marching on March
ing onl
One by one governments win fall into line
and constitutions and literatures will adore
His name. More honored and worshiped Is
He In this year Of 1891 than at any time