The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-10-01
Tle March Of Christ
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venerable olive trees now standing,
their genealogical ancestors having
been witnesses OF tie. occurrences spoken |
of, the scene OF horror and OF crime
came back TO fiir until shuddered
with the historical "Reminiscences.
In further following our great Chief
tain's marc! 'h.cHg., the centuries
find myself III crowd in front of
Herod's paii.,t. il. JertIsaleIn. and on
movable platform pinred upon tes-
selatex pavement i'on:ius PLATE sits.
And as once y@aE u condemned Grim
inal IL pardoned. PLATE lets the people
choose whether il shall be an assassin
or our Chieftain, and they all cry out
for the liberation of the assassin, thus
declaring they prefer u 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 his hands, but he could
not. They are still lifted, and 1 see
them looming up through all the ages,
eight fingers and two thumbs standing
out red with the carnage.
THB AGONY on CALVARY.
Still following our Chieftain ascend
the hill which General Gordon, the
great English explorer and arbiter first
made a clay model of. 1t is hard climb
ing for our Chieftain, for he has not
only two heavy timbers to carry on his
back, the upright and horizontal pieces
Of the cross, but he is suffering from ex-
haustion caused by lack of food, noun
tain chills, desert heats, whippings with
elmwood rods and years of maltreat-
ment.
II took our party, in 1889, only fifteen
minutes to climb to the top of the hill
and reach that limestone rock In .yon-
der wall, which rolled down from the
apex of Mount Calvary. But l think
| our Chieftain must have taken a long
time for the ascent, for he had all earth
and all heaven end all hell on his back
as he climbed from base to summit,
and there endured what William Cow
| per and John Milton and Charles Wes-
ley and Isaac Watts and James Mont
gomery 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 apd MassiIlon and George
Whitefield aud Thomas Chalmers have
attempted to preach.
Something of its orervisei1u4ag au-
fitness you may estimate from eis fact
that the sun which shines In the heav-
ems 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 swallowed Lisbon
and Caracas, and has looked unblanch-
ed on the battleSelds 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 rTIe sceIIO.= A-,r>xoA e-.~-
its face veil of cloud 1t withdrew.
1t hid itself 1t said to the midnight,
Il 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 tragedy =
Then the night hawk and the bat flew
by, and the jackal 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 fiv;
or six steps to an aisle of granite wher
he sleeps. But only little while hs
: sleeps there, for there is an earthquak.
in all that region, leaving the rocks t.
this day in their aslant and rupturet
state declarative of the fact that some
thing extraordinary there happened
And we see our Chieftain arouse from
his brief slumber and wrestle down tn.
ruftlan Death who would keep him i'm
, prisoned In that cavern and put boil
heels on the monster, and coming fortl
with a cry that will not cease to b,
echoed until on the great resurrection
day the door of the lost sepulcher shall
be unhinged and flung changing int.
the debris Of demolished cemeteries.
! Now we follow our Chieftain to tn
. shoulder of Mount Olivet, and withou
wings he rises, the disciples clutchin,
: for his robes too late to reach them, an,
, across the great CULTS of space with on
e bound he gains that world which 70
e thirty-three years had been denied hi
Q companionship, and all heaven lifted
shout of welcome as he entered, and O
coronation as up to the mediatoria
throne he mounted. 1t was the great
est day heaven had ever seen. The,
9 had him back again from tears, from
! wounds, from ills, from a world tina
= never appreciated him to a world il
which he was the chief delight. In al
the libretto of celestial music i. wa
, hard to find an anthem enough conjubi
+ liant to celebrate the Joy sanity seraphic
archangelic, deific.
But still we follow our Chieftain u
his march through the centuries, 70
: invisibly he still walks the earth, an,
i by the eye of faith we still follow him
You can tell where he walks by th
: churches and hospitals and reforzna
tory Institutions and houses Of Nero
that saiag up along efe wR fAez
e his tread in the sickroon and in tn
4 abodes of bereavement He marche
on and the nations are gathering aroun
!, him. The islands of the SEQ are hearin
u his voice. The continents are feeling hi
= power. America viii be his. Europ,
will be his Asia viii be his Africs
viii be his. Australia viii be his. New
Zealand viii be bis. All the earth viii
, be HAL Do you realize that until nov
, it was impossible for the world to b,
# convertedf Not until very recently ha
4 the world been found. The Bible talk
o about .the ends of the earth" and tn,
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