The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1891-10-30

Iure But although weakened by fort,
days and forty nights of abstinence. liz
hurls all Pandcmonium down the rocks
suggestive OF how lie can hurl into
helplesSncss all our temptations
Ana now we climb right after
Him, up the rough sides OF the
Mount of Beatitudes," and on the
highest pulpit of rocks. the Valley OF
latin before Him, the lake of Galilee
TO the right OF Him; the Mediterranean
sea to the left of Him, and lie preached
a sermon that yet will transform the
world with its applied sentiment Now
we follow our Chicftain on Lake Cali
lee. We must keep the beach. for our
feet are not shod with the supernatural,
and we remember what poor work
Peter made of it when he tried to walk
the water
Christ our leader is on the top of the
tossing waves, and it is about half-past
three in the morning and it is the dark.
est time just before day.brcak. 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 il was
frozen snow. The sailors think n
ghost is striding the tempest but lie
cheers them into placidity, showing
Himself TO ~ great Christ for sailors.
And He walks the Atlantic and Pacific
and Mediterranean and Adriatic now,
and If exhausted and afTrightcd voy-
ayers 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 en-
enlargement
We continue to follow our Chicftain,
and here is blind man by the wayside
IL is not from cataract of the eye or
from ophthalmia, the eye-extnguisher
of the east; but he was born blind. BE
opened"' He cries, and first there is
smartng of the eye-lids, and then
twilight, and then mid-noon, and
then shout. ~ see! | see" Tell it
to all the blind, and they, at least, can
appreciate il. And here is the widows
dead son, and here is the expired
damscl, and here is Lazarus! Live
our Chieftain cries, and they live. Tell
it through all the bereft households;
tell it among the groves. And here
around Him gather the deaf and the
dumb and the sick, and at His word
they turn on their touches and blush
from awful pallor of helpless illness to
rubicund health, and the swollen foot
of the dropsical sufferer becomes fleet
as roe ON the mountains.
The music of the grove and house
hold wakcns the deaf ear and lunatic
and maniac return into bright intclli-
gcnce, and the lcper's breath becomes
as sweet as the breath of child, and
the flesh as roseate. Tell it to all the
sick, through all the homes. through all
the hospitals Tell it at II o'clock at
night tell it at . o'clock in the morn
ing; tell it at $3.50, and in the last watch
Of the night, that Jesus walks the tenn
pest
Still we follow our Chieftain until |
the government that gave no protec.
ton insists that He pay tax, and, too |
poor to raise the requisite S2.75, lie or
icrs Peter to catch fish that has in
its mouth Roman slater, which is Il |
bright coin land you know that fish !
naturally bite at any thing bright, but |
II was miracle that Peter should have |
caught it at the first haul
Now we follow our Chicftain until |
for the paltry sum of SIS, Judas sells /
him to his pursucr% Tell it to all the
betrayed. II for $4,000 or for $500 or for |
800 your interests were sold out, consid-
nr for how much cheaper sum the Lord |
Of earth and Heaven was surrendered
10 humiliation and death. But here
while following him on spring night
between II and II o'clock, we, see the
lash of torches and lanterns and we hear
The cry of mob of NihilistS. They are
breaking in on the quietude of Geth-
,emane with clubs-likc mob with
sticks chasing mad dog. 1t is herd OF
Jerusalem "roughsN led on by Judas TO
arrest Christ and punish Him for being
he loveliest and best being that ever
lived
But rioters are liable TO assail the
wrong man. How were they 20 he sure
which one was Jesus? II will kiss
lin" SAYS Judas, land by that signal
you will know on whom To lay your
,ands of arrest" SO the kiss which
the human race and for all
limo God intended as the most sacred
of affection. for Paul
writes TO the Romans and the CorintEi-
ms and the Thessalonians concerning
he holy kiss" and Peter celebrates
he kiss of charity, and with that con
junction OF lips Laban met Jacob, and
Joseph met his brethren, aud Aaron
net Moses and Samuel met Saul and
Jonathan met David and Orpah parted
rom Naomi, and Paul separated from
MS friends at Ephesus, and the father
=. Ahn nnrnh liz rrrnntnd the returning |