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


In further following our great Chief
tain's march through the centuries I
find myself in crowd in front OF
llerod's palace in Jerusalem. and on n
movable platform. placed upon n ties.
sclated pavement, Pontius Plate sits.
And as once a year a condemned Grim
inal Is pardoned. PLATE lets the people
choose whether II shall be an assassin
or our Chicftain and they all cry out
for the liberation OF ths assassin. thus
declaring they prefer n murderer to the
salvation of the world.
! PLATE took basin of water in front
of these people and tried 10 wash off
the blood of this murder from his hands.
but he could not. They are still lifted,
and j see them looming up through all
the ages eight fingers and two thumbs.
standing out red with carnage.
! Still following our Chieftain. ascend
the Hill which Gen. Gordon. the great
English explorer and arbiter first made
n clay model Of 1t is hard elm bin,y for
our Chieftaiu, for lie has not only two
heavy timbers To carry on his back. the
| upright and the horizontal pieces of tho
cross, but he is suffering from exhaus-
ton caused by lack of food mountain
chills, desert heats. whipping with
elmwood rods and years of maltreat-
ment
1t 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 Mt Calvary. But think our
Chieftain must have taken long time
for the ascent, for Tie had all earth and
all Heaven and all hell on His back rs
He climbed from the base to the SUM
init, and there endured what William
Cowpcr and John Milton and Charles
Wesley and Isaac Watts and James
Montgomery and all the other sacred
poets have attempted to put in verse;
and Angelo and Raphael and Titan and
Leonardo da Ninci and all the great
Italian and German and Spanish
and French artists have attempted
to paint; and Bossuet and Mas
sillon and George Whiteficld and
Thomas Chalmers, have attempted to
preach. Something of its overwhclm-
ing awfulncss you may estimate from
the fact that the sun which shines in
the heavens could not endure il; the
sun which unflinchingly 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 unblanchcd on the battlc-helds
of Arbcla, Blenheim, Megiddo and Es-
draelon, and all the scenes of carnage
that have ever scaldcd and drenched |
the earth with human gore-that sun
could not look upon the scene.
The sun dropped over his face
n veil of cloud 1t withdrew.
1t hid itself 1t said TO the mid.
night: II resign TO thee this spectacle |
upon which have no strength TO gaze;
thou art blind, oh. Midnight! and for
that reason | commit to thee this TRACE |
dy!' Then the night-hawk and the bat |
flew by, and the jackall howlcd in the
ravines.
Now we follow our Chieftain as they |
carry His limp and laccrated form amid
the flowers and trees of a garden, the
gladoluseH, the oleanders, the lilies,
the gcranilms, the mandrakes, down
five or six steps TO an aisle OF granite,
where he sleeps But only little
while he sleeps there, for there is an
earthquake in all that region. leaving
the rocks TO this day in their aslant and
state, dcclarative of the fact
that something extraordinary there
happened And we see our Chieftain
aroused from Ills brief slumber and
wrestle down the ruflian Death, who
would keep Him imprisoned in that
cavern, and put both heels on the mon
stcr, and come forth with cry that
will no: cease TO be echoed until, on
the great resurrection day, the door OF
the last sepulcher shall be unhinged
and flung changing into the debris of
cemeteries.
Now we follow our Chieftain 10 the
shoulder of Mt Olivct, and without
wings lie rises, the disciples clutching
Tor His robes too late To reach them,
and across the great CULTS of space with
Dne bound He gains that world which
Tor thirty-thrcc years had been denied
His companionship, and all Heaven
lifted n shout OF welcome as lie entered,
md of coronations as upthe mediatorial
throne lie mounted. II was the great
,st day Heaven ever seen. They had
him back again from tears, from
wounds, from ills, from a world that
never appl eciatcd Him, 10 a world in
which lie was the chief delight In all
he librctto OF celestial music, II was
lard to find an anthem enough con-
ubilant TO celebrate the JOY sanity
archangelic, deitic
But still we followed our Chieftain in
His march through the centuries, for
nyisiblY lie Still wallks Ire earth. and