The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-09-30

Chieftain on Lake Galilee. We must
keep to the beach, for our feet are not
shod with the supernatural, and we re-
member what poor work Peter made Of
II when he tried to walk the water.
Christ, our leader, is on the top OF the
tossing waves, and II is about half-pasi
three in the morning, and tits the dark.
est time Just before daybreah. But by
the flashes OF lightning we see Him put
ting His feet on the crest Of the wave,
stepping from crest to crest walking
the white surf, solid as though It were
frozen snow The sailors think ghost
is striding the tempest, but He cheers
them into placidity, showing Himself
TO be a great Christ for sailors. And
He walks the Atlantic and Pacific and
Mediterranean and Adriatic now, and
II exhausted and affrighted voyagers
will listen for his voice at half-past
three o'clock in the morning on any
sea, indeed at any hour, they will hear
His voice Of compassion and encourage
ment
We continue to follow onr Chieftain, 4
and here is blind man by the wayside.
II is not from cataract Of the eye or
from opthalmia, the eye-extinguisher of
the East; but he was born blind. "Be
openedp he cries, and first there is
smarting Of the eye-lids, and then
twilight, and then mid-noon, and then
shout II see! see" Tell it to all
the blind, and they at least can appre-
tUAn Lar 10 tba xxtt1n nxxy,a
son, and here is the expired damsel,
and here Is Lazarus! "Livep our Chief
tain cries, and they live. Tell it through
all the bereft households; tell 1t among
the graves And here around Him
| gather the deaf and the dumb and the
sick, and at 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 q roe on the
mountains. The music Of the grove
and household wakens the deaf ear, and
lunatic and maniac return into bright
intelligence, and the leper's breath
becomes as sweet as the breath of
child and the flesh as roseate. Tell 1t
TO all the sick, through all the homes,
| through all the hospitals. Tell 1t at
10 o'clock at night; tell it at 2 o'clock
In the morning; tell It at half-past 8,
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 protec-
tion, insists that He pay tax and too
poor TO raise the requisite two dollars
and seventy-five cents, He orders Peter
to catch a fish that las in It's mouth
Roman slater, which is bright coin
land you know that fish naturally bite
at anything bright, but it was mira
Gle that Peter should have caught 1t at
the first haul
Now we follow our Chieftain until for
the paltry sum Of fifteen dollars Judas
sells Him 10 His pursuers Tell IL TO all
the betrayed II for ten thousand dol.
lars or for five hundred dollars or for
one hundred dollars your interests were
sold out, consider for how much cheaper
sum the Lord Of earth and heaven
was surrendered TO humiliation and
death. But here, while following Him
on spring night between II and 1a
o'clock, we see the flashes of torches and
lanterns, and we hear the cry of mob
Of Nihilists. They are breaking In on
the quietude Of Gethsemane with clubs
like mob with sticks chasing mad
dog. II is a herd Of Jerusalem ''roughs"
led on by Judas to arrest Christ and
punish Him for being the loveliest and
best being that ever lived. But rioters
are liable TO assail the wrong man.
How were they TO be sure which
one was Jesus2 81 will kiss Him."
says Judas, 'and by that signal
you will know on whom TO lay your
hands Of arrest" SO the kiss which
throughout the human race and for all
time God intended as the most sacred
demonstration Of affection, for Paul
writes TO the Romans and the Corinthi-
ans and the Thessalonians concerning
the "holy kiss" and Peter celebrates
the kiss of charity, and with that con-
junction 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, ana faul separated from
his friends at Epnesus' ana the iatner
In the parapie greeted tne returning
prodigai, and when tne mlienium snail
come we are toid righteousness ana
peace will kiss each other, and all the
world Is invited TO greet Christ as in
spiration cries out, kiss the Son, lest
He be angry ana ye perish from the