Connecticut western news., 1891-10-01

TOT the IlDerarlon ot the assassin. thus declaring they prefer q murderer to the salvation of the world Pilate took 8 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 up through all the ages, eight fingers and two thumbs standing out red with the carnage
 THE AGONY ON CALVARY
 Still following our Chieftain I ascend the hill which General Gordon, the great English explorer and arbiter first made clay model of It 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.
 It 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 think our Chieftain must have taken long time for the ascent, for he had ah earth and all heaven and 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 l 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 and Massillon and George Whitefeld aud Thomas Chalmers have attempted to preach. s-.... Something of it's overwhelming aw fitness you may estimate from tue fact that the sun which shines in the heav- ems could not endure it; the sun which unflinchingly looked upon the l 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 battlefields of Arbela, Blen- helm, Megiddo and Es,'.4;elon, and all the scenes of carna:,e that have ever scalded and drenched the earth with human gore-that sun could not look upon the scene The sun dropped over it's face 8 veil of cloud. It withdrew. It hid itself. It said to the midnight, 1T 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 tragedy r 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 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 rupture0 state declarative of the fact that some thing extraordinary there happened And we see our Chieftain arouse from his brief slu1uber and wrestle down the ruf1an Death who would keep him in prisoned in that cavern and put botf heels on the monster, and coming fortl with a cry that will not cease to be echoed until on the great resurrection day the door of the lost sepulcher shal be unhinged and flung changing into the debris of demolished cemeteries.
 Now we follow our Chieftain to the shoulder of Mount Olivet, and without wings he rises, the disciples clutchins for his robes too late to reach them, anG across the great gulfs of space with one bound he gains that world which fol thirty three years had been denied hi. companionship, and all heaven lifted z shout of welcome as he entered, and ol coronation us up to the mediatoria throne he Auounted. It was the great est day heaven had ever seen. They had him back again from tears, iron wounds, from ills, from a world that never appreciated him to a world il which he was the chief delight. In al the hbretto of celestial music it wa. hard to find an anthem enough con- njubi lant to celebrate the joy saintly seraphic archangelic. deific.
 But still we follow our Chieftain i! his march through the centuries, fol invisibly he still walks the earth, an, by the eye of faith we still follow him You can tell where he walks by the churches and hospitals and reforms, tory institutions and houses of mere! that spring up along the way. heal his tread in the sickroom and ill th; abodes of bereavement. He marches on and the nations are gathering around him. The islands of the sea are hearing his voice. The continents are feeling hi: power America will be his. Europe will be his, Asia will be his Afric; will be his. Australia will be his. New Zealand will be his All the earth vii be his Do you realize that until now it was impossible for the world to bt converteds Not until very recently ha: the world been found. The Bible talk about "the ends of the earth" and the "utternost parts of the world" as be ing saved. but not until now have tho
 lends of the earth" been discovered and not until now have the "utternlos parts of the world" been revealed.
 The naviu tor did his work. the ex plorer did his work. the scientist die his work. and now for the first tiln' since the world has been created ha. the world been known. measured off and geographical, the lost, hidden ant unknown tract has been mapped out