The southern argus. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Cherokee County, Kan.) 1891-1???, 1891-10-01

| tossing waves, and it is about half-paSt
three in the morning, and it is the dark
est time just before day break. But
by the flashes of lightning we see Him
putting 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
a 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 if exhausted and affrighted 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-
couragement.
We continue to follow our ChieftaiD,
and here is blind man by the way
| side. 1t is not from cataract of the
eye or from ophthalmia, the eye extin-
| guisher of the east, but he was born
blind BE opened He cries, and first
there is smarting of the eyelids, and
then twilight, and then mid noon
and then a shout. 81 see! | see!" Tell
it to all the blind and they at least can
| appreciate it. And here is the widows
dead son, and here is the expired dam
sci, and here is Lazarus! "Livei" our
Chieftain cries, and they live. Tell it
through all the bereft 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 touches and blush from awful
pallor Of helpless illness to rubicund
health, and the swollen foot of the
dropsical sufferer becomes feet as
roe on the mountains.
Still we follow our Chieftain until
the government that gave him no pro-
lection insists that He pay tax, and,
too poor to raise the requisite So rs. He
orders Peter to catch fish that has in
its mouth Roman slater, which is a
bright coin (and you know that fish
naturally bite at anything bright, but
it was a miracle that Peter should have
caught it at the FIRST haul
Now we follow our Chieftain until
for the paltry sum of SIS Judas sells
Him to his pursuers Tell it to all the
betrayed! If for So 600 or $500 or for
500 your interests were sold out, con-
slider for how much cheaper a sum the
Lord Of earth and Heaven was sur
rendered to the humilities of death
But here while following Him on a
spring night between eleven and twelve
o'clock we see the flash of torches and
lanterns and we hear the cry
of mob Of nihilists They are
breaking in on the quietude of Geth-
semane with clubs-like mob with
sticks chasing 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 Jesus? II
will kiss Him." said 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 demonstrations of affection for
Paul writes to the Romans and the
Corinthians and the Thessalonians
concerning the holy kiss" and
Peter celebrates tn e kiss of charity,
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
and Paul separated from his friends at
Ephesus, and the father il the parable
greeted the returning prodigal, and
when the millennium shall come we
arc told Righteousness and peace will
kiss each other, and all the world is in
vited 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 af-
lection was desecrated as the filthy lips
of Judas tovched the pure cheek of
Christ, and the horrid smack of that
kiss has its echo in the treachery and de-
basement and hypocrisy of all ages
In further following our great Chief
tain's march through the centuries,
find myself in n crowd in front of
Herod's palace in Jerusalem, and on
movable platform placed upon tas-
selated pavement Pontius PLATE sits.
And as once year a condemned crimi- |
nal is pardoned, Plate lets the people |
choose whether it shall be an assassin |
or our Chieftan, and they all cry for the
liberation of the assassin, thus declar-
ing they prefer a murderer to the sal !
walton Of the world. Plate took basin |
Of water in front of these people and |
tried to wash off the blood of this |
from his hands, but he could not |
Still following our Chieftain, ascend |
the hill which Gen. Gordon, the great |
English explorer and arbiter, first |
made clay model of. 1t is hard |
climbing for our Chieftain, for He has |
not only two heavy tinb ers 10 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 elm wood rods and |
years of maltreatment
/ think our Chieftain must have
taken long time for the ascent, for lie
had all earth and all Heaven. and all |
hell on His back. as He elm bed from
base to summit and there endured