Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-01-10

that they are, at least excepting
their miraculous or supernstura
features of unquestionable, credi
, bility in all essential particulars
differences of detail even lendin,
support to the main story; tn,
capture, the trial, the crudifixion
the interment, and the resppear
ance of Jesus among the living
are facts as assured to my mint
as the taking of Jerusalem by
Titus. No sufficient rea4on cal
be imagined for the invention o
any of them, save only the res
direction; and that that really oc
cured so unexpectedly to all tn,
disciples, the immediafe ant
rapid spread of G Christianity there
after is alone sufficient evidence
since it is impossible to accoun
for it in any other way:1t wa'
the immortality (believkd to be
brought to light through tn,
Gospel that alone gave thai
Gospel it's enduring and eonquer
ing vitality, and is still both it,
chief support aud the gr{at STUN.
bling-block of unbelievets.
What isspoken of BY all the
evangelists as the "givi1g up the
ghost" by Jesus-it is fncertaiu
how long before he WIS taken
down from the cross twas un.
doubtedly partial or enhre syn.
cope from exhaustion, and per-
haps by the desolatio4 that he
felt when he found, OF thought
he found, himself forsaIen by his
God MARK XIV. 34); oriit might
be even that he affected condi.
ton of insensibility in older to es.
cape such further crueIlies as the
supplying his thirst with vinegar.
However this may A, we can
well believe that whep the SOL
diers came to finish tie barbar-
GUS work, by breaking the legs
of the victims, they found him in
a condition which meg even less
ignorant, stupid, and careless
than they most likely were,
would easily and materially take
tor actual death. For esus. il
must be remembered, tps already
worn nigh to exhau ION with
fasting and anxiety, td say moth
ing of his undoubted highly SEN
sitive organization.
Here we come, inthe Gospel
according to John (xix. 32-37,
and Xxx. 2O to plain solution
of the whole greet mystery.
Soldiers were seYt 6y PLATE,
st< <ths;Szaquest. Or JeyH to
break the legs of Jde 5 and the
two thieves, in order that the en-
suing "day of Preparation" might
not be desecrated by their still
hanging from the cross, and that
they might be ettectually dis.
abled from escaping death. They
practised this horrible feat of
cruelty on the companions in
misery of Jesus, but when they
came to him they found, or sup,
posed that they found, him to be
already dead, and accordingly ne.
elected to complete what anato-
mists know must have been a
somewhat difficult job.
"But one of the soldiers with a
spear pierced his side, and forth
with there came out blood and
water"
Now, there is but one part of
the human anatomy, it need not
be argued, where the thrust of
spear would naturally be followed
by such a phenomenon as this,
and that is the region of the
urinary bladder.
Moreover, while a wound like
that would not Immediately destroy
life, and might even easily permit
the sufferer to go or be conveyed
about, and show himself from time
to time for a few days, it would not,
nevertheless, in view of the poor
surgery of those times, and of the
uncertain care, or even neglect,
that a refugee would inevitably
suffer, fail before any long time to
prove mortal.
This, then, is the true story of
the reappearance or resurrection OF
Jesus after his supposed death on
the cross. Removed to the cool
tomb by the tender hands of his
friends, and placed in horizontal
position, he recovered, probably
after some hours, from his state OF
syncope or collapse, and easily made
his way to some selected refuge,
leaving behind him the garniture
of the grave which Mary, but not
Simon Peter took for angels ella,
in white miment. Then he fingered
out his few remaining days, Sc
curely concealed from his enemies
but revealed to we know not how
many Gn the dlsagreements ofth,
evangelistsl of his most trustee