Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-09-28


tain cries, and they live Tell it through
all the beTeft households. tell it 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 pallow Of helpless illness to
rubicund health, and the swollen foot of
the dropsical sufferer becomes feet as roe
on the mountains. The music of the grove
and household wakens the deaf ear, and
lunatic and maniac return into bright in
telligence, and the leper's breath becomes
as sweet us the breath Of child, and the
flesh as roseate. Tell it to all the sick,
through all the homes, through all the hos
pitfalls. Tell it at twelve o'clock at night,
tell 1t at two o'clock in the morning; tell
1t at half-past three, and in the last watch
of the night, that Jesus walks the tempest.
THE JEWISH MOB COMES
Still we follow our Chieftain until the
government that gave him no protection
insists that he pay tax, and, too poor to
raise the requisite two dollars and seventy
five cents, he orders Peter to catch fish
that has in its mouth a Roman state,
which is bright coin land you know that
fish naturally bite at anything bright, but
it was miracle that Peter should have
caught it at the first haul
Now we follow our Chieftain until for
the paltry sum of fifteen dollars Judas
sells him to his pursuers. Tell it to all the
betrayed Ii for ten thousand dollars, or
for five hundred dollars, or for one hun
dred dollars your interests were sold out
consider for how much cheaper a sum the
| Lord of earth and heaven was surrendered
to humiliation and death. But here, while
following him on spring night between
| eleven and twelve o'clock, we see the flash
| of torches and lanterns and we hear the
cry OF a mob of nihilists. They are break.
ing in on the quietude of Gethsemane with
clubs-like a mob with sticks chasing a
mad dog
1t Is 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 Jesusl 81 will kiss
him." says Judas, land 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 affec-
ton, for Paul writes to the Romans, and
the Corinthians, and the Thessalonians
concerning the holy kiss" and Peter
celebrates the kiss of charity, and with
that conjunction of lips Laban met
Jacob, and Joseph met his brethren,
and Aaron met Noses and Samuel met
Saul, and Jonathan met David, and Orpah
parted from Naomi, and Paul separated
from his friends at Ephesus, and the father
in the parable greeted the returning prodi
gal, and when the millennium shall come
we are told righteousness and peace will
kiss each other, and all the world is invited
TO greet Christ as inspiration cries out,
kiss the Son, lest he be angry and we
perish from the way"-that most sacred
demonstration of reunion and affection
was desecrated as the filthy lips of Judas
touched the pure cheek of Christ, and the
horrid smack of that kiss has its echo in
the treachery and debasement and hypoc
risy of all ages
AS in December, 1889, walked on the
way from Bethany, and at the foot of
Mount Olivet, n half mile from the wall of
Jerusalem, through the Garden of Gethsem
ane and under the eight venerable olive
trees now standing, their genealogical an
cestors having been witnesses of the occur
rences spoken of, the scene of horror and
of crime came back to me, until shud
dered with the historical "reminiscences
In further following our great Chief
tains march through the centuries, find
myself in crowd in front Of Herod's pal
ace in Jerusalem, and on a movable plat
form placed upon tasseated pavement,
Pontius PLATE sits And rs once year
condemned criminal is pardoned, PLATE
let's the people choose whether it shall be
an assassin or our Chieftain, and they all
cry out for the liberation of the assassin,
thus declaring they prefer murderer to
the salvation of the world. PLATE took a
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 see them looming ND
through all the ages, eight fingers and two
thumbs standing out red with the carnage
Still following our Cheftain, ascend
the hill which General Gordon, the great
English explorer and arbiter, made clay
model of. 1t Is hard climbing 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 exhaustion caused by
lack of food, mountain chills, desert heats,
whippings with elmwood rods and years
of maltreatment
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 | rolled down from the apex of
Mount Calvary. But think our Cheftain
must have taken long time for the ascent,
for he had all earth and all heaven and all
hell on his back as he climbed from base
to summit and there endured what Will
lam Cowper and John Milton and Charles
Wesley 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 at
tempted to paint, and Bossuet and Masil-
lon and George Whiteheld 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 it; the sun which unhinching-
ly looked upon the deluge that drowned
the world, which without blinking looked
upon the ruins of earthquakes which swal.
lowed Lisbon and Caracas, and has looked
unblanched on the battlefields of Arbela,
Blenhem, 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 veil of
cloud. 1t withdrew. 1t hid itself. 1t said
to the midnight; Il resign to thee this
spectacle upUE which have no strength to
gaze; thou art blind o midnight and
for that reason commit to thee this trag-
edyl" Then the nighthawk and the bat
flew by and the iackal howled in the